This love is terrifying. Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him. The swooning teens will not accept allegations that the bushy-haired college kid — whom they refer to by his nickname, “Jahar” — and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, killed...
Harvard College Observatory is digitizing its famed collection of more than 500,000 glass sky-survey plates and has just released the first data set.
I walk past row after narrow row of dark green filing cabinets. Each one, I know before I peer inside, is filled with hundreds of astronomical glass plates in...
Kepler Goes Down — and Probably Out The loss of a flywheel-like device to ensure precise pointing means that NASA's planet-hunting telescope has perhaps made its last observations.
An artist's impression of the Kepler spacecraft, which is basically a wide-field photometer fed by a...
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This map, from the United States Geological Survey, shows the age of bedrock in different regions of North America. Scientists found ancient water in bedrock north of Lake Superior. This...
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