History On the 4th of July 1054 or maybe even earlier, in April or May that year, a new bright star near the Sun was observed in the const...

Torrents of likely new exoplanets are pouring in from NASA's Kepler space telescope - more than 1,200 of them so far, large and small, i...

The lowest note ever produced in the universe is B flat ! Ever wondered what a black hole "sounds" like? As NASA's Ch...

The Extra Terrestrial Planets They have been among the hottest things in astronomy for more than a decade. But let's face it. Gian...

Most methods for finding extra-solar planets favor worlds very close to their stars. Direct imaging, on the other hand, favors those far awa...

The beginning Gail Bieger-Smith is a 69 old woman who lives a quiet life in Wassenaar, a small, wealthy town west of Leiden, the Netherlands...

A rare few rocks lying around on Earth may have been blasted here from Mercury, say two Canadian theorists. It is known that most meteorites...

What is a lantern A lantern simply is a portable flashlight case with transparent sides to give to allow the light to be spread around the l...

Think about taming the huge ocean powers from tides and waves to produce a clean endless energy, water crashes against the steep, rocky clif...

A remarkable radio emission from a close by galaxy cough on June 2010 may be the indication of an alien civilization astrophysicists have b...