The Search For Earth-Like Planets

The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth [...]

Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around [...]

NASA Response to Crazy 2012 Claims

NASA JPL “Reality Check” on all those wacky ideas surrounding the upcoming shift in the ancient Mayan calendar. Our favorite is the planet “Nibiru” that’s said to be hurtling into [...]

Saturn’s Beautiful Aurora

Beautiful space weather on Saturn, from the Cassini spacecraft. From NASA/JPL.

When Will Time End?

It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive depends on whether Stephen Hawking’s theory checks out. Special thanks to Ivan Bridgewater [...]