This awesome video from the American Museum of Natural History takes you on a tour of the known universe, starting with Earth and zooming out to the f...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.
abc.net.au | Stuart Gary | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Astronomers have discovered what they think is a new type of supernova, which could have implications for how the universe is measured....
BBC | Matt Walker | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space....
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology
WASHINGTON — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many p...
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, has just produced new images of the solar system that has shocked astronomers. This first full-sized m...
Amy Novogratz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Jill Tarter has an ambitious plan: to come up with a system that would enable engineers, and anyone interested in life elsewhere, to participate in the quest for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Elena Brower | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
We must cultivate a state of radical forgiveness to experience true intimacy.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large t...
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Five hundred years ago people used to think the earth was flat. Evidence to the contrary was dismissed as absurd: "If the world was really a ball of r...
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 07.20.2009 | Comedy
Why isn't math a natural part of all the subjects taught -- as in the case of say .... English?
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
I always thought that it was the Mormons who received planets to manage in Heaven. Could it be that Robertson is, and always has been, a closet Mormon?
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Last week, astronomers uncovered new planets in the celestial lounge: we'll wonder how quickly they'll take our jobs, then we'll build a border fence around the planet. That's just the kind of worldly neighbors we are.
BBC News | Paul Rincon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The biggest black hole in the Universe has been weighed by astronomers. The monster celestial object is 18 billion times more massive than our own Su...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a dea...
Posted 12.17.2009 | Technology