The threat of nuclear war and the increasing rate of climate change means we must walk a thin line when it comes to nuclear power. Whe...

Imagine the closest star beyond the Sun has a planet orbiting it about the size of Earth. Visualize what your sunset would look like on th...

The research group I work with has made a fantastic poster about how galaxies form in the cosmic web and how we use computer simulations to ...

Comets have long been portents of change. They challenge the rote repetition of our skies. An astute observer of the sky will perhaps have r...

There is a new object in the sky. Comet ISON is an icy wanderer making its first and probably last last trip into the solar system from its ...

I have a new online project and venue that I have launched! Common Observer is a collaborative online venue of science, art, philosophy,...

Dark matter is the commonest, most elusive stuff in the universe. Can we grasp this great unsolved problem in physics? The world we see is...

ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is the most complex and ambitious astronomical observatory ever completed. And it is...