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Remember Sedna? It’s that icy object uncovered last year in the outer reaches of the Solar System. When it was…

Black holes… you know. Cosmic singularities that can contain the mass of billions of stars like our Sun. Where the…

Wolf-Rayet stars are big, violent and living on borrowed time. Put two of these stars destined to explode as supernovae…

In case you missed the news, NASA is headed back to the Moon in the next decade. A permanent lunar…

Let’s say you’re browsing around the comic book store and happened to notice a perfect copy of Action Comics #1…

There’s a number in the Universe which we humans call alpha – or the fine structure constant. It shows up…

In this week's QA, Fraser suggests some good locations for a Mass Driver launcher, how the laws of physics would…

Imagine a solar powered sail that could propel a space craft through the vacuum of space like a wind that…

Wormholes are a mainstay in science fiction, providing our heroes with a quick and easy way to instantly travel around…

Professional astronomers have got some powerful equipment at their disposal: Hubble, Keck, and Spitzer, just to name a few. But…