Bob Eklund

UK Scientists Create “Mini Big Bangs” in Large Hadron Collider – UK scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC’s) ALICE experiment at CERN are celebrating the LHC’s latest achievement which opens up an entirely …[READ MORE]

Somewhere, over the rainbow… Astronomers Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence This week astronomers from twelve countries will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated …[READ MORE]

Study Says Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Common- Nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars. UC Berkeley …[READ MORE]

Spacecraft to Make Close Flyby of Comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4th – NASA’s EPOXI mission continues to close in on its target, comet Hartley 2, at a rate of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) per …[READ MORE]

Hubble Telescope Captures First Images of Aftermath from Possible Asteroid Collision NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected collision of two asteroids in space. The images show a bizarre X-shaped …[READ MORE]

Ghosts of the Future: First Giant Structures of the Universe Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen, at a distance of 7 billion light-years. …[READ MORE]

Discovery of First Truly Habitable Exoplanet Suggests Our Galaxy Could Be Teeming with Life- A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and supported by …[READ MORE]

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Discovered The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) PS1 telescope has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October of this year. The object …[READ MORE]

Breaking Waves in the Stellar Lagoon THE NASA/ESA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, launched into orbit two decades ago in 1990, continues to delight our sense of beauty as well as challenging our intellect. A case in …[READ MORE]

Join the World in Viewing the Moon on Sept. 18 On Saturday, Sept. 18, people around the planet will be gathering for the first-ever International Observe the Moon Night, a global event meant to get …[READ MORE]