June 17, 2017
Nautilus: “The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe” 2018
#Astronomy #Links #ScienceAstrophysicists have discussed fine-tuning so much that many people take it as a given that our universe is preternaturally fit for complex ...
June 04, 2017
Astronomy & Astrophysics: “Gliese 710 will pass the Sun even closer” 2018
#Astronomy #Links #ScienceUsing data from the Gaia mission we obtained results that are ten times more accurate than from HIP2 catalogue, and the closest approaching...
June 18, 2016
Cornell University: “A Ninth Planet would produce a distinctly different distant Kuiper Belt” 2018
#Astronomy #Links #Science The orbital element distribution of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with large pericenters has been suggested to be influenced by the presen...
June 11, 2016
Scientific American: “Can Starshot Work?” 2018
#Astronomy #Links #Science The Breakthrough Starshot project won’t take people to another star, or even take a conventional robotic explorer. Instead the goal is to ...
February 08, 2016
Caltech: “Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet” 2018
#Astronomy #Links #Science The researchers, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown , discovered the planet's existence through mathematical modeling and computer simu...
February 08, 2016
Starts With A Bang: “Have Astronomers Found Alien Megastructures After All? (No, Probably Not)” 2018
#Astronomy #Links #Science Late last year, one of the stars that NASA’s Kepler mission was observing made headlines for having a very unusual signal around it. Rathe...