NASA Unveils Their New Launch System

NASA Adminstrator Charlie Bolden and several members of Congress announced today the decision on NAS (...)

Breakthrough Study Confirms Cause of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

A new supercomputer simulation shows the collision of two neutron stars can naturally produce the ma (...)

NASA's Kepler Mission Helps Reveal the Inner Secrets of Giant Stars for the First Time

University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citi (...)

Best Images from 2010

Here are some of the best space and astronomy images from 2010. These are in no particular order or (...)

Voyager 1 Has Outdistanced the Solar Wind

The venerable Voyager spacecraft are truly going where no one has gone before. Voyager 1 has now rea (...)

Food expiration dates: What do they really mean?

Are you one of those people who pour the milk down the drain on the expiration date? Expiration d (...)

NASA - A Galactic Spectacle

A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The (...)

Calculate distance, bearing and more between Latitude/Longitude points

This page presents a variety of calculations for latitude/longitude points, with the formulæ and cod (...)

What causes hurricanes?

Experts say the 2010 hurricane season may be one of the worst in U.S. history, possibly even echoing (...)

A Non-Mathematical Introduction to Using Neural Networks

The goal of this article is to help you understand what a neural network is, and how it is used. Mos (...)

Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?

Like part of a cosmic Russian doll, our universe may be nested inside a black hole that is itself p (...)

15 Strange Things About Outer Space

We all had to memorize that cute mnemonic solar system device in grade school that taught us the ord (...)

Applying Mathematics To Web Design

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What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory

One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carrol (...)

MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 6: Column Space and Null Space

This is the sixth post in an article series about MIT's course "Linear Algebra". In this post I will (...)

Solar Dynamics Observatory: The Variable Sun Mission

For some years now, an unorthodox idea has been gaining favor among astronomers. It contradicts old (...)

Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streame (...)

AstroTour

A must-see for all outer space-lovers (...)

Timeline: The evolution of life

There are all sorts of ways to reconstruct the history of life on Earth. Pinning down when specific (...)

Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes

High-energy bursts of gamma rays typically occur far out in space, perhaps near black holes or other (...)

Spirit is Now a Stationary Science Platform

After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (...)

MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 5: Vector Spaces and Subspaces

This is the fifth post in an article series about MIT's course "Linear Algebra". In this post I will (...)

Alien Planet Safari

The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope, will launch in 2014 in (...)