Posts Tagged ‘space’
Are we alone?
If aliens ever sent us a message, scientists hope to pick it up in a remote part of northern California. There, in a clearing nestled amid the volcanoes of the Cascade Range, 42 radio dishes point together at the sky. The dishes, each 20 feet across, form a [Read More]
End of an Era
I wrote about the end of the space shuttle program for Science News for Kids. Here’s the whole story. [Read More]
8 Ways Scientists Look at—But Don’t Yet See—Dark Matter
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The hunt for dark matter is on, and scientists are looking for the mysterious stuff on Earth and in space. I wrote about recent efforts to detect dark matter for the July-August 2009 issue of Discover magazine. Read the article here. [Read More]
A Shaking Star Soon Shares Its Secrets
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Just as earthquakes help scientists learn about the interior of our planet, the way a star’s surface oscillates yields clues to its internal structure and other key characteristics. Researchers with the Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation are putting that concept to work [Read More]
