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Posted 05.16.2013
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Science
By Eugenie Samuel Reich Dale Frail couldn’t resist the prospect of watching a black hole swallow its prey. Frail, who is in charge of the Very La...
By: Miriam Kramer Published: 04/22/2013 07:35 AM EDT on SPACE.com An incredible new photo taken by a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere shows a ...
By John Matson All supernovae are bright. When a star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, it emits a burst of energy and light that can outshi...
A stay in any of these historical hotels is a fantasy in itself, but living in one -- surely a luxury reserved for the VIPs of the world. The hotel se...
By: Megan Gannon Published: 04/18/2013 06:21 AM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists have conducted a postmortem exam on the last gigantic star explosion e...
By: Mike Wall Published: 04/08/2013 08:52 AM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has witnessed an ultradense dead star b...
By: Miriam Kramer Published: 04/04/2013 11:44 AM EDT on SPACE.com Astronomers have spotted the most distant massive star explosion of its kind, a s...
By: Megan Gannon Published: 03/31/2013 11:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com Astronomers have spotted a star in our galaxy that races around a black hole at ...
It's a moonlit night in San Juan and there's lots of shimmying, shouting and whooping it up on the Lido Deck of Holland America Line's Eurodam. This isn't your average port-of-call local folk dancing display, but glitz and glamour on the high seas as Holland America kicks off the first ever "Dancing with the Stars: At Sea" theme cruise.
By John Matson When NASA launched the WISE satellite in 2009, astronomers hoped it would be able to spot loads of cool, dim objects known as brown d...
By: Elizabeth Howell Published: 03/12/2013 10:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com The world's most powerful radio telescope will pull back the curtain on the d...
By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 02/28/2013 02:17 PM EST on SPACE.com Astronomers studying an unusual black hole system have spotted a never-before...
By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 02/11/2013 04:03 PM EST on SPACE.com Forecasting when stars will die in giant explosions may one day be possible ...
"It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day," Vincent van Gogh once said about his interest in painting night scenes, which led him to create his most famous work of art, Starry Night, a year later while in a French asylum. According to Smithsonian Magazine, van Gogh's Starry Night has consistently been one of the most popular paintings at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. It shows that we as people have always had a fascination with capturing the night skies.
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 02/08/2013 07:24 AM EST on SPACE.com An odd flashing star may actually be a pair of cosmic twins: two newly formed ...
An NHL official was in the wrong place at the wrong time during the Avalanche-Stars game on Monday night. Just a few minutes into the first period,...
By: Elizabeth Howell Published: 01/31/2013 07:02 AM EST on SPACE.com Failed stars can emit detectable radio waves at much cooler temperatures th...
Dallas Stars goaltender Kari Lehtonen may owe some restitution to Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson after the ridiculous robbery that he pulled off...
By: Elizabeth Howell Published: 01/24/2013 02:11 PM EST on SPACE.com Scientists have discovered a puzzling spinning star that is spontaneously s...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 01/19/2013 09:45 AM EST on SPACE.com A watery-looking nebula in deep space is being renamed after the sea creature ...
By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 01/02/2013 01:07 PM EST on SPACE.com Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of plane...
At the first annual Tube-a-Tweet-a-Thon, presented by Virgin Mobile and What's Trending, author and comedian Heather McDonald (Chelsea Lately) share...
The best songs of 2012 did more than please listeners' ears; they also advanced the genres they represented, whether it was pop, hip hop, rock, EDM or whatever we're calling Fiona Apple's music these days.
The biblical account of constellations at play around Jesus' birth is rife with contradictions, recording astronomical events that are unusual to the point of impossible, such as supernovas, comets and conjunctions.
By: Tariq Malik Published: 11/30/2012 02:51 PM EST on SPACE.com The famed North Star has been a beacon in the night sky throughout human history, ...
