• more about #exoplanets
    twDarkflame: "about how the public responds to scientific research." More like how the public responses to other peoples response's on scientific research. Few me... more »
    Bill-Lee: "and robotic arms controlled by monkey minds." I don't know why but that phrase makes me snicker. more »
    dr.baltar001: I would add the completion of the ISS since it's probably as big of a science project as the LHC in scope, although I think what it gives back may no... more »
    phoenix: This is an excellent wrap-up of really interesting and important science-related topics in the past 10 years. They're all sufficiently big, and they'r... more »
    AmishJohn: I'm waiting for the science breakthrough that automatically shoots these comment spammers in the neck. more »
    njdevil: Those are some tasty looking chromosomes... more »
    VEXisGaY?: COROT-7b huh, sounds like a good vacation spot for the family.. wonder if they have a disenyworld? more »
    Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies: "...the intense temperature shifts and boiling oceans aren't good for developing life." loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mock... more »
    Mount_Prion: Corot Dallas Multipass! That is all. more »
    Pessimippöpötåmus: That's where the Separatist leaders are hiding! more »
    burlybax: I like your point about Earth-centric, carbon-centric, biology-centric scientists. Our concept of "life" is quite relative. I look forward to the day,... more »
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I say we get a team together and check this planet out. Anyone (unfortunatly) seen the Core? We need some Unobtainium and a crew willing to risk all a... more »
    acrobatic rabbit: great. now we can build a supermax prison on the planet and wait for Riddick. more »
    The_Sporean_Bob: If we went there, might we find Vader's legs and arm? more »
    Fwiffo: I hear the coffee cup manufacturers consortium is already planning a mining base here. more »
    twophrasebark: Maybe it's traveling forwards and its sun is traveling backwards? more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: That's no giant backwards-orbiting exoplanet... It's a Space Station! more »
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): So that means that if we go and discover whats going on. We are all going to suffer the same fate as the Red Dwarf crew in 'Backwards'....well count m... more »
    tetracycloide: FTL travel would be nice, sure, but for the time being i'd settle for FTL communication. more »
    phoenix: Don't worry! We'll get a good, closer look in a couple hundred million years when Andromeda and the Milky Way go spinning into each other. :D Then we ... more »
  • #decadeinreview

    Ten Science Stories That Changed Our Decade

    There is no doubt that science has become more like science fiction in the past decade, with amazing innovations and discoveries that increased our understanding of the universe. We list ten of the biggest science stories from the past decade. More »
  • #spaceporn

    Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System

    At last scientists have confirmed that rocky planets like Earth and Mars exist outside our solar system. Until this week, we've only seen gas giants like Jupiter orbiting distant stars. But the existence of planet COROT-7b changes all that. More »
  • #space

    Scientists Have Discovered A Very Strange Giant, Puffy, Backwards-Orbiting Planet

    It's a pretty solid rule: in most planetary systems, as in our own Solar System, planets orbit their central star in the same direction as that star's rotation. But researchers have recently found a glaring, 100,000 kilometer wide exception. More »
  • #mysteryinspace

    Did We Find An Extragalactic Planet Five Years Ago?

    Has science finally caught up to the suspected discovery of a planet outside of our own galaxy from five years ago? Gravitational microlensing may explain the mysteries behind a 2004 sighting of something unusual in our neighbor galaxy of Andromeda. More »
  • #spaceporn

    Newly Discovered Planet Is As Big As Its Star

    The latest exoplanet we've discovered is an imposing giant, almost the same size as the star it orbits. It's also the first planet found using a fifty-year-old technique designed to find planets at greater distances from their suns. More »
  • #spaceporn

    First Pictures Of Four Alien Planets!

    Meet the neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has managed to snap our first picture of a planet outside our solar system, only 25 light years away in the constellation Piscis Australis. More »
  • #spaceporn

    8 Things You Didn't Know About Extrasolar Planets

    While most of us have our eyes on Mars at the moment, there's a special class of astronomers who have their telescopes trained on planets a little bit farther away. Actually, a lot farther away - completely outside our solar system, in fact. We've found almost 300 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) so far, and the search continues. Here are some surprising facts about planets that are way, way out there. More »
  • #exoplanets

    Almost Earth 2: Small Rocky Planet is Closest Yet