Huge asteroid flys by Earth (again) on 2/17/13
Huge Asteroid to Fly Safely By Earth Monday: Watch It Live An asteroid the size of three football fields is set to make a close brush of Earth on Monday (Feb. 17), and you...
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Close Type 1A Supernova Spotted
Exploding Star: New Supernova Discovery Is Closest in Years Editor’s Update for Jan. 23: Skywatchers around the world are taking a look at the new supernova in galaxy M83. To see their new photos...
Rare Solar Eclipse
Rare Solar Eclipse Wows Skywatchers Across Atlantic, Africa (Photos) A rare solar eclipse that began as a “ring of fire” and transformed into a spectacular total eclipse of the sun amazed skywatchers from North...
Neutrinos from another galaxy?
Antarctic Experiment Possibly Detects Particles from Another Galaxy I don’t get to write hyperbolic science fiction titles very often, but I couldn’t resist this one. Even if it’s not entirely accurate; in reality the...
Why is the Sun so perfectly round?
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2012/08/the-suns-almost-perfectly-round-shape-baffles-scientists
Dark Matter Filament Studied for the First Time
ESA Science & Technology: Dark matter filament studied in 3D for the first time [heic1215] Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have studied a giant filament of dark matter in 3D for the...
Higg’s boson attains 5 Sigma (discovery)
New Particle Consistent with Higgs Boson Discovered at CERN | Physics | Sci-News.com The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) and the ATLAS experiments at CERN presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the...
Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record for Teleportation
Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation The ability to teleport photons through 100 kilometres of free space opens the way for satellite-based quantum communications, say researchers Teleportation is the extraordinary ability to transfer...
Apocalypse N….evermind. Oops. World won’t end in 2012.
Maya art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists – BBC News Archaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Maya civilisation have reported striking finds, including the oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables. The site, in...
Physicists create sonic black hole in the lab
(PhysOrg.com) — Black holes get their name because they absorb all incoming light, and are so dense that none of that light can escape their event horizon. In a new study, scientists have...