Dwarf Planet has Ring, Looks like Potato
Rings may be a common feature of objects that orbit outside of Neptune. Then, there’s Haumea…
Rings may be a common feature of objects that orbit outside of Neptune. Then, there’s Haumea…
An analysis of data from the Kepler space telescope has revealed 20 promising worlds that might be able to host life.
NASA believes it may have an explanation for the strange formations resembling giant blades of ice on Pluto.
In a study published in Nature Astronomy this week, astronomers announced that they’d finally been able to observe Jupiter’s southern x-ray hot spot in detail using data from the XMM-Newton and Chandra space observatories in 2007 and 2016. Surprisingly, […]
How does a gas giant form near a dwarf star? What does it take to build a gas giant? Building models of planet formation and studying exosolar systems have both provided us with some hints. But […]
Astronomers track asteroids and comets in space near Earth, and some are unfathomably far away in the outer solar system. However, scientists may have spotted the first such object from someplace even more distant–another solar […]
The latest data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope suggests that the orbits of those stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way may show the subtle effects predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Reviews of Ace doubles covers and 40 years of Star Wars, perspectives on fandom and more awaited Spanish language readers in December’s Amazing Stories.
Since your correspondent is on the road and unable to watch the streams this week, have a review of a complete miniseries instead.
Watch the train wreck yourself as the planet Earth collides with the remnants of comet Swift-Tuttle at thousands of miles per hour
Worried that an asteroid will hit the Earth? As Andrew Weston reports, NASA has some good news and some bad news on the subject of a near earth object called Bennu.
A Sci Fi scavenger hunt!
aliens, aliens and more aliens; Boskone, space flowers, ice volcanoes, Groot, drones and Star Trek. Plus Suicide Squad and GotG. And – you guessed it – even more.
Unusual night display begins shaping up this morning at dawn
Steve picks up and reviews a brand-new hard SF book—a thriller—by best-selling mystery writer John Sandford and SF pro artist & photographer Ctein, and finds it a fast, fun read!
Oxymoron? If you think the title of this blog post is one, then read on, dear disillusioned reader! Be warned though, it’s going to take me a moment to get to the actual poetry. The […]
Astronomer’s discover our ‘solar sibling’, a star born at the same time, and out of the same nebula, as our own.
There’s a boatload of scientific research experiments currently being done on ISS. NASA doesn’t publicize this much, but I found the range and number of them staggering!
Beware of fiery meteorites filled with glowing green goo….
A new SF anthology and more reporting on the Asimov Foundation project.
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