Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project
The ambitious, unprecedentedly vast Square Kilometer Array project should open up new realms in astrophysics. But will it live up to its name?
Stressed out: Mars Express reveals methane over tortured Martian terrain
This image of a region of Mars called Nili Fossae was released by the European Space Agency on May 6.
Budget crunch mothballs telescopes built to search for alien signals
Black Plant Life Could Thrive on Other Planets
Photosynthetic plants on other planets that revolve around different kinds of suns could be mostly gray or black. Cynthia Graber reports
Deep Freeze: Mars Orbiter Finds Massive Stores of Buried Dry Ice
Radar soundings point to huge deposits of carbon dioxide near the Red Planet's south pole, which may have once contributed to a different climate
Planet-palooza: Visualization reveals panoply of the Kepler space telescope's exoplanet haul
Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet-hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.
Habitable exoplanets could exist at white dwarfs, or near dark matter
UFOs, UAPs and CRAPs
Unidentified aerial phenomena offer a lesson on the residue problem in science
Look for Living Planets Near Dying Stars
An astronomer makes the case that the best place to search for habitable planets may be very close to white dwarf stars. Karen Hopkin reports
Which near-Earth asteroids are ripe for a visit?
The Origin of Life
A new analysis suggests lightning and volcanoes helped make life possible. David Biello reports
Ammonia from meteorites could have aided start of life on Earth