A Smashing Touchdown

A common theme in movies is a meteorite or asteroid streaking down from the skies and blowing up a sizeable portion of the earth then causing a catastrophe wiping out a significant fraction of humanity if not its entirety.
No tsunamis, earthquakes or gigantic explosions in this one though. If a featured AFP news yesterday is [...]

Proof of Dark Matter

Another NASA article involving astronomy and physics the other day had me writing this entry. This time, the article involves the dark matter of one of the lot of theories in physics.
It is pretty interesting to note that while astromers believe that the stuff comprises majority of the known universe, they know so little about [...]

A New Frontier?

 
About 3 days ago, a yahoo tidbit caught my attention as I was checking my mail. Apparently a potentially habitable planet was found.
So starts the said article, (from which the image here is also taken:)
For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a [...]