Welcome to the 144th Carnival of Space! For those of you who have participated in this weekly cosmic party, you know the drill, but if you're a newcomer, prepare yourself for an experience beyond measure. In a nutshell, Fraser Cain ...
The inspiration for the new NOVA program, "The Pluto Files," featuring astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, was the public outcry that accompanied the downgrading of Pluto from a planet to a "dwarf planet" (or "plutoid") by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...
Did the Milky Way cannibalize ancient dwarf galaxies that strayed too close? By studying one primordial star in an existing dwarf galaxy, this appears to be the case.
Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers who are currently digitizing and analyzing 100 years of photographic plates of the night's sky have made their first discovery: a new class of extreme variable star.
Need some inspiration, or just a breather? Check out this video "The Poetry of Reality." It's lovely.
The star is squeezing a planet 40 percent larger than Jupiter into the shape of a football.
The US is a nation of immigrants, by and large, and now it seems as if the Milky Way galaxy has its share of immigrants, too, in the form of globular star clusters. A new paper from Australian scientists at ...
Humans are no strangers to ravaging the land, but the stars have proven a good deal more elusive. So far, our ethical concerns have remained limited to the contamination of extraterrestrial environments, but what will the future bring? Vatican astronomer ...
What astronomy needs is a good road trip movie, and NOVA is happy to oblige with a new series, "The Pluto Files," which makes its debut this Tuesday, March 2, at 8 PM (ET/PT) on PBS. It's based on Neil ...
A big aspiration for astronomers is to identify life on planets orbiting other stars. Thanks to NASA's Kepler mission we will know about the statistical abundance of Earthlike worlds in our galaxy in just a few years. But confirming that ...
