11/15/2017 - 23:36
When scientists find a new exoplanet -- and that happens frequently these days -- there is often something wrong with it. Either it is too cold or too hot for life, or it's a gas giant, or the star it orbits is too volatile.
11/13/2017 - 17:08
Twenty-five years after warning that human impact could lead to irreparable environmental damage, scientists charge not enough is being done to halt climate change.
11/07/2017 - 09:09
The life of Marie Curie is being celebrated today because: A) She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize; B) It is the 150th anniversary of her birth; C) She and her husband conducted work leading to the isolation of polonium and radium; D) All of the above.
11/01/2017 - 16:53
Scientists are rethinking a fundamental theory about the way planets form after the discovery of a gas giant orbiting a small star.
10/16/2017 - 20:34
Scientists have spotted the merger of two neutron stars -- the first event observed in both gravitational waves (ripples in the fabric of space time) and the spectrum of light, according to the University of Maryland.