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On July 24, 2024, an international team of scientists, headed by Dr. Elisabeth Matthews of the Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, announced that they had used […]
Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, I was an avid viewer of science fiction on television. Naturally, the programs I watched included the classic […]
For Star Trek fans like myself, the mention of the nearby star, Wolf 359, instantly brings to mind the “Battle of Wolf 359”. Originally seen in […]
The year 2019 is proving to be a fruitful one for the discovery of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars especially our smallest neighbors, red dwarfs. On August […]
As engineers and space travel enthusiasts continue to make progress tackling the problems associated with interstellar travel, astronomers around the globe have been busy searching for […]
Despite its diminutive size and comparative dimness, Barnard’s Star has played an outsized role in astronomy since its discovery a century ago. Being the second closest […]
Science fiction stories in movies and television set on other worlds frequently present views of spectacular arrangements of moons, looming giant planets and multiple suns of […]
Before the discovery of the first exoplanets, astronomers thought they understood the architecture of planetary systems. Using our own solar system as a guide, it was […]
The year 2017 is certainly proving to be a fertile one for the discovery of potentially habitable exoplanets. Just a year ago there were maybe five […]
The nearby α Centauri system is among the best known among astronomers and the general public alike. Frequently the setting of various science fiction stories over […]
It is difficult to believe that it has already been a year but on August 24, 2016, an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé […]
I doubt that there are many space enthusiasts or even scientists out there who remember the first time they ever heard mention of the name Tau […]
