Studies of Universe’s Expansion Win Physics Nobel Prize: Three US-born citizens won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 4,  for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.  Their discovery created a new picture of the eventual fate of the universe:  a place of super-low temperatures […]

Cities on Pluto?  Solar System Speculation: Before Ed Turner and Avi Loeb tell you about their research, they want to make one thing perfectly clear: they do not claim there’s a city on Pluto. But if there were, they say, we could see it. And, as they suggest in a paper they’ve submitted to the […]