Has there been any thought given to the implications of the background vacuum energy being so large? By Quantum Electrodynamics equations, using the Planck...

At this distance, the best speed available for New Horizons to transmit back to Earth is only 700 bits/second! Yousuf Khan PlayStation-processor-powered...

http://astronomynow.com/2015/01/26/exoplanet-j1407b-possesses-ring-system-200-times-larger-than-saturns/ "Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The...

"It is the announcement no one wanted to hear: The most exciting astronomical discovery of 2014 has vanished. Two groups of scientists announced today (Jan....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/24/wham_star_punched_by_racing_pulsar_spatter_matter_goes_to_015_lightspeed/ In perhaps the most violent punch that has...

New way to weigh a star | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2015/10/new-way-to-weigh-a-star Until now, scientists have determined the mass of...

Moon was produced by head-on collision | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/moon-was-produced-by-head-on-collision The Theia Theory used to...

Now, a team of scientists led by Professor Subir Sarkar of Oxford University’s Department of Physics has cast doubt on this standard cosmological concept....

Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, a new study suggests. The study, published in the New Journal of...

The Beagle 2 lander which was supposed to land on Mars in 2003, but went dead. Now they found the landing site(s), and it looks like the Beagle 2 is somewhat...

Some initial calibration issues occurred with this instrument, which extended its commissioning phase. I don't think that they're sure that it's going to be...

Super-Earths may be dead worlds | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/02/super-earths-may-be-dead-worlds

Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space |...

The star is called HR 5171 A and it's actually two stars orbiting each other, where one star touches the atmosphere of the other one. That's how it gets its...

Between May 23rd to 24th, a newly discovered comet, 209P/Linear, will be showering its debris through Earth's atmosphere. Apparently it'll rival the Leonids...

Now, Relativity never mentions what the microscopic form of spacetime is, but most Relativity purists think of it as one continuous fabric, extending down to...

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/06/new-evidence-oceans-deep-earth Researchers from Northwestern Univ. and the Univ. of New Mexico report evidence for...

The study, led by Marcel Pawlowski at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, critiques three recent papers by different international teams, all...

"If you know any pedantic science nerds, you’ve probably been corrected at some point about c, the speed of light, the velocity Einstein famously said could...

A new dwarf planet discovery might destroy the possibility of Planet 9's existence. Ironically, this new planet was discovered while searching for Planet 9....