- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 3rd, 2014
How Circumbinary Planets Form Around Two Stars
The fact that planets can form in binary systems still amazes scientists
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 31st, 2014
New Planet-Hunting Telescope May Launch in 2022
ESA is considering a mission to succeed NASA's Kepler
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 15th, 2014
White Dwarf Mergers Trigger Type Ia Supernovae
New study overturns older hypothesis on how these blasts occur
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 7th, 2014
Three Quarters of All Planets Have Sizes Between Earth's and Neptune's
New Kepler data were presented at the January 2014 AAS meeting
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 3rd, 2014
Earth-like Planet Discovered Nearby
The alien world is relatively close in astronomical terms
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 12th, 2013
Revamped Kepler Mission Invited to NASA Review in 2014
The planet-hunting telescope could get a new chance to life next year
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 30th, 2013
Planet Hunting Should Be More Conservative, Experts Say
Telescopes are currently searching for new world indiscriminately
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 28th, 2013
How to Limit the Search for Alien Life in the Universe
New model only takes into account really promising worlds
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 26th, 2013
Kepler Telescope to Begin New Science Mission
The observatory has concluded its first scientific assignment
- Video
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 26th, 2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Refresh Coming, Black Edition
This is, at least, what a pair of photos found online suggest
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 15th, 2013
Dark Matter Could Be Made Up of Primordial Black Holes
New study eliminates part of these objects, but not all
- CPU
- By Sebastian Pop
- November 11th, 2013
First Kepler Tegra 4 SoC Revealed by Android Source Code
Tegra 124 features the GK20A Kepler core, benchmark found
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 6th, 2013
Famous Planet-Hunting Telescope Could Be Brought Back to Life
NASA is considering re-purposing Kepler for different studies
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 5th, 2013
Kepler Telescope Finds 833 New Exoplanetary Candidates
Some of these worlds may be similar in size and mass to Earth
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 5th, 2013
Twenty Percent of Milky Way Stars Have Earth-like Planets Orbiting Them
Astronomers estimate there are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 2nd, 2013
Carbon-Rich Exoplanets Lack Water, New Study Suggests
The element binds to oxygen, preventing the formation of water
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- October 23rd, 2013
There Are Now More than 1,000 Confirmed Planets Outside the Solar System
A major milestone, especially since the first was discovered just two decades ago