#astronomy
# space
Scientists and engineers are slowly but steadily preparing to protect us from an incoming comet or asteroid despite the media's coverage of their efforts as anything but organized.
# space
It turns out that one of the best ways to learn about dark matter is to turn out the lights, lean back, and closely watch a little gravitational galaxy on galaxy action.
# astrobiology
In its quest or clicks, the media turned a single footnote in a paper on a sequence of fast radio bursts into proof that scientists found the second coming of the Wow! Signal.
# space
Europa is one of the most promising places to find alien life in our solar system, but exploring the moon isn't as easy as just landing on the surface and starting to drill and probe.
# space
On the largest cosmological scale, the universe is supposed to be homogenous. A new discovery puts that principle in question.
# space
Extrasolar moons of gas giants may be the perfect worlds for life outside out solar system. And they should be even more common than planets.
# science
It seems we finally understand something about black holes and their behavior.
# space
Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
# astrobiology
For all the excitement about this potentially habitable world, we still don't know much about it and its ability to host life.
# space
Just like supermassive black holes, planets can bend light with their gravity. But do they bend it enough for us to detect them that way?
# space
How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
# space
Kepler-22b is now of the our best candidates for extraterrestrial life. But there are a lot of questions left to answer about this planet.
# space
Gliese 581d, one of the exoplanets considered potential homes for alien creatures seems to show even more promise on further investigation.
# astrobiology
Just because a planet was ejected from its solar system doesn't mean its oceans can't stay liquid long enough to host some basic life.
# space
A neutron star that suddenly cooled gives us a hint at what's going on in its superheated innards.
