‘In the News’ Archives

Picture a calm spring day 66 million years ago in what’s now North Dakota. Perhaps … “The asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck in springtime”

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe. We can’t see them with the … A giant gamma-ray burst from the infant universe

They’re among the largest physical structures on the planet – and they’re a total mystery. … “Why are there continent-sized ‘blobs’ in the deep Earth?”

Measuring the expansion rate of the universe was one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s main … “Hubble identifies unusual wrinkle in expansion rate of the universe”

Inside every significant philosopher, astronomer or scientist is a geometer trying to get out. First … “Buddy James: Geometry of the Electric Universe | Thunderbolts”

Our Sun sits in the middle of an enormous void called the local bubble containing … “Gareth Samuel: Milky Way’s Plasma Bubble Network | Thunderbolts”

A massive sunspot may be set to erupt, unleashing the most intense form of solar … “Huge Sunspot Pointed Straight at Earth Has Developed a Delta Magnetic Field”

The world has been trying to master this limitless clean energy source since the 1930s. … “Bottling the Sun”

At our third conference, EU2014: All About Evidence, Dwardu Cardona presented a reconstruction of Earth’s … “Dwardu Cardona: Earth’s Primordial Stellar Host”

The James Webb Space telescope has the sharpest perspective on otherwise invisible light in the … “Webb telescope’s sharp views of the universe will change astronomy”