KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Runaway stars speeding through the galaxy aren’t exactly easy to find, but luckily, they leave some clues that space-based telescopes can catch and beam back to Earth NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer … Read More
The periodic table of elements just got four new members, thereby completing its seventh and currently last row. The four new elements — with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 — were announced on Dec. 30 by scientists … Read More
From the drug lord who pulled off an impossible escape to an extraterrestrial ocean containing clues to alien life, here are the baffling mysteries the world will try to solve this year. WTF space junk: What was that debris? A … Read More
There is growing interest in Europe to prioritize the moon as humanity’s next deep-space destination. The moon, supporters say, can serve as a springboard to push the human exploration of the solar system, with Mars as the horizon goal. So … Read More