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By DENNIS OVERBYE The agreement will enable international collaboration on projects, a necessity in an age when big […]

Did you ever want to just look through the eyepiece of a large telescope in space? If you […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 8, 2015 by Farzin

Have you ever seen the Summer Triangle? The bright stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair form a large triangle […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 7, 2015 by Farzin

By CARL ZIMMER Scientists have discovered microbes that have many — but not all — of the features […]

By SINDYA N. BHANOO Named Chilesaurus diegosuarezi — after the country and the boy, Diego Suárez — the […]

By SINDYA N. BHANOO Researchers see potential military applications in the internal explosion that allows an insect to […]

By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Judging from their present-day relatives, birds and crocodiles, dinosaurs were likely to have shed […]

What’s that under the surface of Mercury? The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft that had been orbiting planet Mercury for […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 6, 2015 by Farzin

By DENNIS OVERBYE The exceptionally luminous galaxy, EGS-zs8-1, is already about one-sixth as massive as the Milky Way […]

By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. Dr. Paul A. Offit writes about the costs of substituting prayer for medical care, […]