Analyzing data collected by the NASA spacecraft New Horizons during the historic passage of the Pluto system in 2015, astronomers from the SETI Institute were surprised to...
Using the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) ground-based search tool for the extrasolar worlds, installed at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in northern Chile,...
Tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter have a significant impact on the solar magnetic field, thereby controlling its 11-year activity cycle, as well as the behavior of...
In our Milky Way galaxy there is a double star system that behaves in an unusual way. This system, called AG Dragon, consists of two stars: a relatively cold giant and a...
The bombardment of the Earth by cosmic radiation generated by a supernova explosion provoked a huge amount of lightning and extensive forest fires across the planet, thereby...
Factor Daily’s Gautham Shenoy (who reviewed the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction) reviews Magical Women, a new Indian feminist science fiction anthology...
Neal Stephenson’s next novel is Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, an 880-page Stephsonian brick of a novel that has ample room for two novels, and that’s because Stephenson...
Paolo Bacigalupi’s (previously) A Full Life is a new short story in MIT Technology Review that traces the hard young life of Rue, whose family has to move and move again...
Using a new method of analyzing the data of the NASA’s Kepler telescope that completed its scientific career, astronomers discovered 18 previously unnoticed exoplanets,...