Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus
in the School of Natural Science, looks at recent books on space
travel and visions of life beyond Earth in a review for the New
York Review of Books:
Almost all the current discussion of life in the universe...
A recently discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxy is sending
astronomers clues about the makeup of dark matter in the
neighborhood of the Milky Way. It is one more clue that a type of
stellar object called massive compact halo objects (MACHOs)
are...
Researchers, including Roman
Rafikov, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, discuss how
"hot Jupiters," "superpuffs," and exoplanets are making us rethink
how planetary systems come together. Read more from
Sciencehttp://ow.ly/hPYg302Rfxg.
Scientists who in February announced their landmark discovery of
these ripples in spacetime revealed today that they had detected
more—again caused by a pair of crashing black holes. This second
find shows that the initial discovery was not a rare...
