This mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explore, or WISE, in the constellation of Cassiopeia contains a large star-forming nebula within the Milky...
Amid nearly 30 submissions from 20 states and four other countries, the Amateur Observers' Society of New York wins Astronomy's contest to celebrate astronomy outreach programs.
The new images also include the best 3-D image ever obtained of a "tiger stripe," a fissure that sprays icy particles, water vapor, and organic compounds.
A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:40 Exceeding the speed of light opens one up to all kinds of theoretical problems, but two Austrian researchers claim there's no reason we can't build a computer that processes information at superluminal speeds.
Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant Tuesday, 09 March 2010 22:40 Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.