Are Dead Zones of the Universe Proof of the "Rare Earth" Theory? & 6 new articles...
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While the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered close to 1,300 exoplanets that revolve around a sun, new findings from diverse fields are being brought to bear of the central questions of the 21st century: How common is life in the... |
"We now know we can use the Lyman-alpha forest to look at the dark energy. There is all this structure at the distant Universe that has never been seen before. Sometimes I feel like an adventuring cartographer from the Middle... |
A dark, mysterious cloud of dust (extending from the center, right) seems to flow out from a bright explosion in this false-color image in infrared light from the Spitzer Space Telescope. These views have revealed that the mystery cloud, called... |
An international race is on to retrieve the first million-year-old sample from deep within Antarctica's ice to discover what drives major changes in Earth's climate. This 10-nation consortium completed two ice cores penetrating right through the Antarctic ice sheet; one... |
Maffei 2 is the poster child for an infrared galaxy that is almost invisible to optical telescopes. Foreground dust clouds in our Milky Way galaxy block about 99.5 percent of its visible light. But this infrared image from NASAs Spitzer... |
Supermassive black holes may zap galaxies into existence from scratch, new observations suggest. Astronomers recently observed a peculiar large black hole that did not belong to a surrounding galaxy as expected. Until now, scientists thought that this black hole's host... |
Because the surface of Mars today is bone-dry and frozen all year round, it’s difficult to find any place on Earth that is truly Mars-like. But two locations, Antarctica’s Upper Dry Valleys and the hyper-arid core of Chile’s Atacama Desert... Provided by The Daily Galaxy  |
