Credits: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Nova ScienceNow, How Life Began, The Colbert Report Also ranks #3 on TBBT: The Sciencey Guest Stars Who Made The Biggest Bang Also ranks #3 on Celebrities You'd Like to Spend Decades on a Spaceship With 295 votes Are they multifaceted? Photo: Metawe...
remains dedicated to preserving the memory of the work done by William and Caroline Herschel. It features his discoveries, including Mimas and Enceladus (circling Saturn), and two moons of Uranus: Titania and Oberon. The museum is open to visitors and tours. ...
[Video: Fly to Space with Rocketship Tours] Space tourists, including scientists and researchers, are required to undergo some sort of training prior to their suborbital flights, and one company, the National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR) in Southampton, Pa., is hoping to ...
performance marked her first since the 1980s. But securing the multi-skilled musician wasn’t exactly an easy feat. Radwan met Alanis several times during her film festival tours before she accepted his invitation. “She was like 'I don't do this. What are you doing? Who's this guy who...
Dennis Overbye is the author of "Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe" (HarperPerennial). He is working on a book about Albert Einstein If ever a man looked and acted in accordance with the part that history had assigned him,...
“Joneswas a laid-back personality even by the standards of mathematicians. ‘He was confident in his own powers and had a Southern Hemisphere scorn for social hierarchies,’ says his former doctoral student Emily Peters at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois.” ...
In her 1997 book, “Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters,” Rubin wrote, “No one promised that we would live in the era that would unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. The edge of the universe is far beyond our grasp. Like Columbus, perhaps like the Vikings, we have peered into a new world...
In her 1997 book, “Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters,” Rubin wrote, “No one promised that we would live in the era that would unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. The edge of the universe is far beyond our grasp. Like Columbus, perhaps like the Vikings, we have peered into a new world...