During the past 100 years, astronomers have discovered quasars, pulsars, black holes and planets orbiting distant suns.
With almost unseemly haste, astronomers and astrophysicists conjured up possible explanations for the new signals from space and rushed them to publications like Nature and Science .
Then, when British astronomers intercepted Luna 9's pictures and released them first, a Soviet scientist lamely charged them with "certain motives of a sensational nature.
What’s Going On Inside This New Kind of Variable Star? A new kind of variable star — 36 of that type, in fact — has been found in a single star cluster. Astronomers don’t even have a name for the star type yet, but feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments! For now, however, astronomers are wondering what the implications are for our [...]
June 12, 2013 - Universe Today
Scientists Cast Doubt on the Closest Exoplanet A new analysis of what a team of astronomers said was evidence of an Earth-mass planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B raises existential questions.
June 10, 2013 - New York Times
Astronomer pegs July 9 as start of Ramadan MANAMA, Kuwait, June 9 (UPI) -- Astronomers in Kuwait said this year's Ramadan holiday will begin July 9, when the first crescent moon of the month becomes visible.
June 9, 2013 - UPI
Kirsten Dunst in China Daily Dunst, 24, says, "I drink moderately, I've tried drugs. I do like weed. I have a different outlook on marijuana than America does. My best friend Sasha's dad was Carl Sagan, the astronomer. He was the biggest pot smoker in the world and he was a...
John Grunsfeld in Reuters As both an astronaut and an astronomer, the opportunity to go back to Hubble is more than a dream come true,said John Grunsfeld, who will be the mission's lead spacewalker. "This mission promises to be quite challenging. NASA has put...
Judd Hirsch in Chicago Tribune I wanted to be an astronomer when I was a kid,Hirsch says. "I used to have scrapbooks of the planets. If I was about to go to college [then], and knew about the space program, I'm telling you, I would have been in it. I would have at least...