October 20, 2015 Stephen Hawking: 'God particle' could destroy the universe Stephen Hawking, who once cautioned that both artificial intelligence and invading aliens could wipe out the human race, now has another dire prediction – the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” might destroy the universe.
October 20, 2015 Curiosity rover packs up drill, hits the Martian road again NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has passed up a potential drilling target and instead resumed the long trek to a huge Red Planet mountain.
October 20, 2015 It's confirmed! Black holes do come in medium sizes Black holes do indeed come in three sizes: small, medium and extra large, a new study suggests.
October 20, 2015 NASA probe may have caught dust from interstellar space, a first Seven tiny grains of rock captured by NASA's comet-chasing Stardust probe in 2004 may be visitors from the vast reaches of interstellar space, researchers say.
October 20, 2015 Night sky creatures: How to spot the centaur and the wolf One of the most interesting of the constellations is now dominating the low southern sky at around 9:30 p.m. local daylight time — the mythical half-horse, half-man creature known as the Centaur.
October 20, 2015 Dark matter 'slingshot' could send lethal asteroids crashing into Earth Dark matter could sling lethal meteors at Earth, potentially causing mass extinctions like the cataclysm that ended the Age of Dinosaurs, Harvard scientists say.
October 20, 2015 Vision risks for astronauts could be a Mars mission 'showstopper,' NASA scientist says Mars may possess a stark and austere beauty, but a manned Red Planet mission will likely not be easy on the eyes.
October 20, 2015 Saturn may have given birth to a baby moon, astronomers say NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has imaged something peculiar on the outermost edge of the gas giant’s A-ring. A bright knot, or arc, has been spotted, 20 percent brighter than the surrounding ring material and astronomers are interpreting it as a gravitational disturbance caused by a tiny moon.
October 20, 2015 Fossil galaxy could hold clues to universe’s early life Astronomers have spotted a tiny galaxy floating on the edge of the Milky Way that could be the first ever formed in the universe.
October 20, 2015 Neutrino telescopes launch new era of astronomy The recent discovery of neutrino particles bombarding Earth from outer space has ushered in a new era in neutrino astronomy, scientists say.
