Mercury… ice planet!
A NASA spacecraft studying Mercury has provided support for the long-held hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other
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ScitechStarter… Kickstarter for mad(ish) scientists and inventors?
Are you a scientist, engineer or inventor? Do you have plans for a James Dyson-like reinvention of some field of
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Kepler… King of the Planet Hunters!
NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth; the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s
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The Paranormal by Erich Goode (book review).
Erich Goode’s book, ‘The Paranormal’, has the sub-title ‘Who Believes Why They Believe And Why It Matters’. The comma is
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International Space Station: 1998-2011 (All Stages) by David Baker (book review).
You might have thought until now that I was only going to be reviewing Haynes fantasy output, but knowing what
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Black hole flare’s one heck of a blast!
NASA’s newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look
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Astronomers discover amazing new galactic trend!
A study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed
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The planets of Alpha Centauri!
John Grunsfeld at NASA had this to say to SFcrowsnest about the discovery of an exo-planet around Alpha Centauri, our
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X-ray nova!
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky
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The universe… big and getting bigger!
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate
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