On the Scene: The Drake Equation: All in the family
Nadia Drake interviews the creator of the formula for predicting how many detectable civilizations exist in the Milky Way
View ArticleMars' history is a fluid situation
New analysis challenges watery, warm picture of planet's surface
View ArticleDistant world looks too ripe for life
Though in the habitable zone, newly discovered planet probably not habitable
View ArticleFirst Earth-sized planets netted
Planet hunt finds two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star
View ArticleSpacecraft captures dust from interstellar wind
Particles giving clues to composition of space beyond solar system
View ArticleAncient impact may explain moon’s magnetic mystery
Anomalies near crater suggest scattering of iron-rich debris
View ArticleVesta seems more planet than asteroid
Spacecraft explorations reveal a layered, beat-up body
View ArticleDeleted Scenes: The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space
Ca-Caw! Experts weigh in on the basic principles featured in the birdiverse
View ArticleHunt for cosmic ray source falls short
Experiment’s dearth of neutrinos may burst gamma-ray bubble
View ArticleDark matter search turns up empty
New calculations suggest dearth of invisible substance in solar neighborhood
View ArticleEarth took a multibillion-year beating
Estimates grow for length of the Late Heavy Bombardment
View ArticleDeleted Scenes: A result of zero doesn't always mean zero results
Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing
View ArticleAncient scribes may have banked on blinking binary
For the Egyptians, luck may have been written in the Demon Star
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