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Titanic 3D opens with accurate night sky

As movie-goers perch on the edge of their seats for the grand opening of the new Titanic 3D film, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D., is celebrating a...

Jennifer G. Blank, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California,...

On Tuesday the Nobel Prize committee announced that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Professors Saul Perlmutter, Brian P....

A recent analysis of samples returned from a comet reveals that the material that formed the comets must once have been wet and hot, thus...

Solar flares occur when the Sun releases a burst of energy. They are usually associated with sunspots and magnetic activity. The Sun's magnetic...

The recent class X solar flare was the most energetic in several years in part because the Sun has been going through an unusually long minimum in...

Galileo first discovered sunspots in 1610, with his new telescope. Sunspots are dark spots on the Sun's visible surface (called the photosphere...

Scientist believe there is another planet within our solar system. The planet known as Tyche is believed to be 4 times larger than Jupiter and 375...

In a January 11, 2011 press release, NASA announced that astrophysicists working on the Fermi mission have discovered that Terrestrial Gamma-ray...

If the speed of light has not been constant, then the starlight-and-time problem becomes more tractable, but it also requires a change in other...