Eruptions flare on the sun
Even the sun threw a little party on New Years’ Eve. If you can call a massive solar flare accelerated by the sun’s magnetic field a party… which we do. […]
Category Archives: Space
Another Earth-like planet found
The chance of finding a planet capable of sustaining life is looking more likely, not just because of the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting neighboring star Tau Ceti, but […]
Lunar probe twins set to crash into the Moon
It’s the Thelma and Louise of space exploration. Lunar probes Ebb and Flow will going out in a blaze of glory this afternoon, hurling themselves at a mountain range on the Moon’s […]
Hubble Space Telescope takes deepest look into the universe’s history
There are two things happening when you’re observing distant stars or galaxies. You’re looking through space, measured as a physical distance, but you’re also looking through time. These celestial bodies […]
Meteor shower will light up the sky tonight
If your neighbor’s Christmas lights aren’t too bright, you’ll be able to witness another light show in the sky tonight. Just after sunset the Geminid meteors will begin streaking across the […]
Watch an asteroid fly-by this afternoon
The lumpy, peanut-like 4179 Toutatis will pass within 37 million miles of the Earth this afternoon, and Slooh is all over it. Toutatis passes us by about once every four years, […]
Voyager 1 is almost in interstellar space
Very soon, space probe Voyager 1 will be probing outside our solar system. According to the team at NASA, the probe is sending back some very strange data from its […]
Goodnight, sweet spidernaut
Nefertiti was a spider that boldly went where only a few spiders went before, so it’s safe to say she had a pretty full life. The 10-month old “Johnson jumper” died […]
So, what exactly did Curiosity find?
In short, carbon. Specifically, chlorinated methane gas, which contains carbon. Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument also found traces of water, sulfur, and perchlorate salts, but naturally the building blocks […]
Google Chrome explores the galaxy
Want to feel really small? Play around with Chrome Experiments’ newest toy, an explorable model of the Milky Way galaxy. In just seconds you can travel to Alcyone, a star in the […]
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