X PRIZE Teams Shoot for Milestone Awards en Route to the Moon
For the first time, an X PRIZE is offering award money to participants during a competition
For the first time, an X PRIZE is offering award money to participants during a competition
A disagreement between observations of galaxy clusters and the cosmic background radiation could be explained by the existence of a fourth type of neutrino
Scientific American technology editor Seth Fletcher talks about the recent Consumer Electronics Show and astronomy editor Clara Moskowitz discusses last month's American Astronomical Society conference
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A research team has shed more light on how Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine could orbit two stars, which are themselves bound together in an orbital dance
Exoplanet Kepler 413 b's tilt can vary by as much as 30 degrees over 11 years, leading to extremely erratic seasons. Clara Moskowitz reports
The notion of an "event horizon," from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, Hawking says
The sun's closest stellar neighbor will soon reveal its mass—and possibly its planets—when it passes in front of a distant star
A Saturn-size star just 40 light-years away will outlive nearly all of its peers
Astronomers have measured a distance scale in the universe to unprecedented accuracy, opening the door to better tests of dark energy models than ever before
Astronomers have spotted their best candidate ever for a Thorne-Zytkow object, a hybrid star proposed almost 40 years ago
If you own a Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter, you can participate in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Astro Drone crowdsourcing game to help improve robot vision
The sun's gravitational pull on dark matter particles may cause seasonal patterns not previously expected
As observations fail to pin down the so-far undetectable stuff, explanations once considered fringe are now getting another look
Moons orbiting distant planets might be visible in existing spacecraft data
Two recently found supernovae are much farther away and brighter than almost any star explosion ever seen, perhaps because they wound up as rapidly spinning magnetars. Clara Moskowitz reports...
The editors of Nature picked these feature stories as the best among the magazine's longer journalistic reports of the year
NASA's long-term vision, released by the agency's astrophysics division, restates its broad and popular themes for scientists to pursue including "Are We Alone?" and "How Did We Get Here?"...
Astronomers may have discovered a moon orbiting an alien planet, but the signal is far from definitive
A carbon threshold breached, commitments to brain science made, mystery neutrinos found and human evolution revised—these and other events highlight the year in science and technology as picked by the editors of Scientific American...
Physicists prefer Roman-era lead ingots to recently mined metal for shielding particle experiments, but archaeologists want them preserved
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