Physics-Astronomy

A 422-million-mile, 10-month journey to Mars ended Sunday with the successful arrival of the Phoenix lander on the Martian surface.

In what several scientists have termed “winning the astronomy lottery,” Princeton researchers were able for the first time to witness a supernova, or the explosive death of a star, as it happened.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently reported the detection of water and methane, a simple organic molecule, a distant planet outside of our solar system.  This finding is exciting to scientists because it confirms that organic molecules and water - two potential building blocks of life - can be identified on distant planets.

The earth has approximately seven and a half billion years left to live, according to mathematical models made by researchers at University of Guanajuato in Mexico and the University of Sussex in England.

Imagine never needing to worry about a low cell phone battery, or portable video player – that is, if you're wearing a new knee brace capable of powering small electronic devices.

Scientific American features an interesting article on the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator being built 100 meters underground near Geneva, Switzerland.