Adam Riess: One Cosmic Puzzle Solved, Many To Go
Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess discusses the mysterious force known as dark energy.
Teenager Launches LEGO Shuttle Into Space
Raul Oaida sent the payload to space by way of a large helium balloon.
How A LEGO Shuttle Got To Space
Raul Oaida, 18-years-old, attached a LEGO shuttle, a video camera and a GPS tracker, to a huge helium balloon and sent them into space.
Dark Matter Just Got More Mysterious
A smashup between two galaxy clusters left an unexpected amount of dark matter in its wake.
Planet Or Not, Pluto’s Getting A Visitor
An update on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.
‘Galileo’ Lives In A New Production
F. Murray Abraham stars in an off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Galileo.’
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploring Cosmic Frontiers
In Space Chronicles, Tyson argues that space exploration is vital to human progress.
Desktop Diaries: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us into his office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City for a tour of his office, in the fourth of Science Friday’s Desktop Diaries series.
Imagining A More Active Moon
New research says that our moon may be more geologically active than once thought.
What Happens When You Levitate Flies?
In a recent study, Richard Hill levitated fruit flies to see how they behaved when they didn’t have gravity pulling them down.