January 27, 2010 Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it.   Read More...

January 06, 2010 Massive Stars: Good Targets for Planet Hunts, Bad Targets for SETI Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars. Those searches have proven successful, turning up more than 400 alien worlds.   Read More...

December 17, 2009 Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.   Read More...