To find the earliest galaxies (hence, farthest and invisible), astronomers James Bock (Caltech) and Asantha Cooray of the University of California (Irvine)
Enough alcohol for 500 wine bottles a second... New observations by an international team of astronomers unequivocally show that comet Lovejoy lives up
When scientific names lack appeal...Struggling to find names for some 2000 confirmed extrasolar planets and apparently realising that the scientific names assigned to
Earth’s rotation slowing, but it’s not as simple as that... A digital clock would normally show the passage to a new day in
Signs of active geology on the dwarf planet...NASA has unveiled another of the striking images its New Horizons spacecraft took during its
Observations with Hubble Space Telescope showed Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was spewing water vapor from its southern pole to heights up to
When talking of water, we normally refer to the water we drink or swim in. But the clouds scientists have detected on
Briny, but water is water...After keeping the world in suspense for days, NASA announced the presence of evidence for intermittent flow of
“Bloodmoon” fascinates...Some 1.5 billion people on 27-28 September enjoyed a rare celestial spectacle which can be viewed only once in a few
Comets which occasionally visit our skies (thankfully from a distance) after getting dislodged from the depot of the Solar System’s formation debris
