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The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"Milky Way Galaxy","caption":"Milky Way Galaxy","imageRatio":0.4757142857142857,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/potw1924a-1-1.jpg","width":700,"height":333},"date":"October 26, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Artificial Intelligence","Astrobiology","Astronomy","Astrophysics","Big Bang","Black Holes","Cosmology","Extraterrestrial Life","Science","Science News","Technology","Universe"]}},{"id":45372,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/will-we-discover-life-bearing-alien-moons-in-the-coming-decade/","title":"Will We Discover Life-Bearing Alien Moons in the Coming Decade?","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" “There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system. While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the Sun’s habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems,” said Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"Earth from Space","caption":"Earth from Space","imageRatio":0.61692307692307691,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/shutterstock_1932166292-scaled-e1635097593452.jpg","width":"650","height":"401"},"date":"October 24, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Planet Earth","Science","Science News","Technology"]}},{"id":45310,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/the-point-of-no-return-scientists-compares-current-climate-change-to-geologic-past-weekend-feature/","title":"The Point of No Return -Scientists Compare Current Climate Change to Geologic Past (Weekend Feature)","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" u201cAs we put more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and temperatures rise, we are quickly rewinding the climate clock to climate states not seen in human history,” wrote acclaimed University of Wisconsin paleo-climatologist Jack Williams in an email to The Daily Galaxy. u201cWe can expect that over the next few decades, climates will […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0Google Scholar, Avi was formerly au00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His motto, not surprisingly, is a quote from Carl Sagan: u201cSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.u201dn"},"media":{"alt":"Antarctica Climate Change","caption":"Antarctica Climate Change","imageRatio":0.68769230769230771,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01b7c942e466970b-e1635000728446.jpg","width":650,"height":447},"date":"October 23, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Climate Change","Evolution","Geology","Mass Extinction","Planet Earth","Science"]}},{"id":45295,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/scientists-challenge-information-is-the-fifth-state-of-matter-in-the-universe/","title":"Is Information the Fifth State of Matter in the Universe?","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" u201cInformation,u201d wrote Arizona State University astrophysicist Paul Davies in an email to The Daily Galaxy, u201cis a concept that is both abstract and mathematical. It lies at the foundation of both biology and physics. u201du00a0","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0Google Scholar, Avi was formerly au00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His motto, not surprisingly, is a quote from Carl Sagan: u201cSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.u201dn"},"media":{"alt":"Information Theory","caption":"Information Theory","imageRatio":0.56307692307692303,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/shutterstock_733632502-1-scaled-e1634911425114.jpg","width":650,"height":366},"date":"October 22, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Science","Universe"]}},{"id":45284,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/is-dark-matter-only-the-tip-of-an-invisible-universe-of-unknown-forces/","title":"Is Dark Matter Only the Tip of an Invisible Universe of Unknown Forces?","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" Dark matter is aptly named. It emits no light and interacts with visible matter only via gravity. But dark matter might be only the tip of an invisible universe of unknown forces. This possibility has led to a hunt for u201cdark photons.u201d Such photons are analogous to ordinary photons, but they are exchanged […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"
Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"Dark Matter Dwarf Galaxy","caption":"Dark Matter Dwarf Galaxy","imageRatio":0.92615384615384611,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DwarfGalaxyformingcrop-e1634827048888.jpg","width":650,"height":602},"date":"October 21, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Astrophysics","Dark Matter","Science","Universe"]}},{"id":724,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/unknown-object-observed-lurking-near-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-is-a-yet-undetected-cosmic-s/","title":"Have Astronomers Detected a Cosmic String from the Dawn of the Universe?","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" u00a0 The center of our Galaxy has been intensely studied for many years, but it still harbors surprises for scientists. A snake-like structure lurking near our galaxyu2019s supermassive black hole is one of the more intriguingu00a0 discoveries. u201cPart of the thrill of science is stumbling across a mystery that is not easy to solve,u201d […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0Google Scholar, Avi was formerly au00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His motto, not surprisingly, is a quote from Carl Sagan: u201cSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.u201dn"},"media":{"alt":"Cosmic String","caption":"Cosmic String","imageRatio":1,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/base-630x630-1.jpg","width":630,"height":630},"date":"October 20, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Astrophysics","Big Bang","Black Hole","Cosmology","Physics","Science"]}},{"id":15469,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/the-source-a-mystery-ancient-big-rivers-ran-through-mars/","title":""Their Source a Mystery" -The Wild and Scenic Rivers of Ancient Mars","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" Mars holds her secrets close, planetary-science experts have noted. The Red Planet is crisscrossed with the distinctive tracks of big, long-dead rivers, but we still don’t know what kind of weather fed them. Scientists aren’t sure, because their understanding of the Martian climate billions of years ago remains incomplete according to a ground-breaking 2019 […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"Ancient Mars River","caption":"Ancient Mars River","imageRatio":0.59999999999999998,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/their-source-a-mystery-ancient-rivers-ran-through-mars-1-e1634653188245.jpg","width":650,"height":390},"date":"October 19, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Science"]}},{"id":45265,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/the-endless-universe-to-einsteins-forgotten-theory-of-space/","title":"The Endless Universe to Einstein's Forgotten Theory of Space","subtitle":null,"excerpt":"Another amazing week of discovery in the Cosmos, ranging from the mystery of our Universe’s beginning to a massive void detected in the Milky Way to the spooky implications ofu00a0 quantum-level technologies:u00a0u201ceverything that can happen will happen, an infinite number of times.u201du00a0","author":{"name":"Val Landi","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/val-landi/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b736b3c149e5a934d63025820526ad5b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"
The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"The Galaxy Report","caption":"The Galaxy Report","imageRatio":0.20000000000000001,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/https___bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com_public_images_38815c9e-a15a-4839-b0ca-1c1c7b267e18_1100x220-e1610984933518.png","width":"650","height":"130"},"date":"October 18, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Alien Life","Astrobiology","Astronomy","Astrophysics","Black Holes","Cosmology","Exoplanets","Extraterrestrial Life","Science","Space","Universe"]}},{"id":45262,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/what-mars-rock-samples-could-tell-us-to-imaging-planet-nine-last-weeks-top-5-space-science-headlines/","title":"What Mars Rock Samples Could Tell Us to Imaging Planet Nine -Last Week's Top 5 Space & Science Headlines","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" ","author":{"name":"Val Landi","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/val-landi/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b736b3c149e5a934d63025820526ad5b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"ESO ALMA Array","caption":"ESO ALMA Array","imageRatio":0.47538461538461541,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/potw1924a-e1632148184801.jpg","width":"650","height":"309"},"date":"October 18, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Science","Space","Universe"]}},{"id":18573,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/collapse-ancient-redshift-black-holes-a-billion-times-more-massive-than-the-sun/","title":"Strange Black Holes of the Infant Universe","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" The discovery of black holes was the first collision of quantum gravity with general relativity. In 2019, astrophysicists at Western University found evidence for the direct formation of black holes that do not need to emerge from a star remnant. The production of black holes in the early universe, formed from massive seeds aided […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"Black Holes","caption":"Black Holes","imageRatio":0.5869140625,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/collapse-ancient-black-holes-a-billion-times-more-massive-than-the-sun-2-1024x601-1.jpg","width":1024,"height":601},"date":"October 17, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Black Holes","Cosmology","Physics","Science","Space"]}},{"id":20757,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/the-amazing-higgs-portal-to-the-dark-world-to-ridding-the-universe-of-antimatter/","title":"Higgs Boson Portal to the Dark Sector of the Universe --"A Breathtaking Worldu201d","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 has proved to be a source of rich speculation for particle physicists. In 2019, researchers proposed that three types of very high-energy Higgs Bosons, dubbed the “Higgs Troika”, may have played a role in ridding the infant universe of most of its antimatter. The Higgs boson […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"Dark Sector of the Universe","caption":"Dark Sector of the Universe","imageRatio":0.52461538461538459,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-amazing-higgs-portal-to-the-dark-world-to-ridding-the-universe-of-antimatter-2-e1634398722557.jpg","width":650,"height":341},"date":"October 16, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Astrophysics","Cosmology","Dark Matter","Physics","Science","Space","Standard Model of Physics"]}},{"id":15537,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/mits-search-for-spooky-axions-the-missing-mass-of-cosmos/","title":"The Search for Axions u2013 Detection Will Have Profound Implications","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" u00a0 “Once an axion is detected,” astrophysicist Raymond Co at the University of Minnesota wrote in an email to The Daily Galaxy, u201cthe implications to cosmology will be profound. For instance, signals from experiments with different search strategies will determine whether the axion is dark matter. If it is, with the measured axion properties, […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0 Google Scholar, Avi was formerly a u00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 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Brown, along with […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"","caption":"","imageRatio":0.56307692307692303,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/absolutely-electrifying-we-will-image-planet-nine-within-the-next-decade-e1634224245337.jpg","width":650,"height":366},"date":"October 14, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Exoplanets","Science","Solar System"]}},{"id":45185,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/nasa-scientists-on-what-the-perseverance-mars-rocks-return-samples-could-tell-us/","title":"NASA Scientists: On What the Perseverance Mars' Rocks Return Samples Could Tell Us","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" “Mars does like to keep its secrets,” Elizabeth Sklute at the Planetary Science Institute, observed in an email to The Daily Galaxy about packing up the first Martian rock samples as the NASA Perseverance Mission begins its sample return mission. “We sent Mossbauer, and found the oxides were nanophase, and that Mossbauer was inconclusive,” […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0Google Scholar, Avi was formerly au00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 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It’s been another fascinating week on our little blue dot from Neil deGrasse Tyson wanting to go ice fishing on […]","author":{"name":"Val Landi","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/val-landi/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b736b3c149e5a934d63025820526ad5b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"
The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"Earth from Space","caption":"Earth from Space","imageRatio":1.7765957446808511,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/b4e149c26f49a0bf46f43c266e6cee13-1.jpg","width":564,"height":1002},"date":"October 13, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Artificial Intelligence","Astrobiology","Big Bang","Black Holes","Climate Change","Evolution","Exoplanets","Extraterrestrial Life","Planet Earth","Science","Technology"]}},{"id":45175,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/in-search-of-dark-energy-probing-11-billion-years-of-cosmic-history/","title":"In Search of Dark Energy --Probing 11-Billion Years of Cosmic History","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" Astronomers may soon have the answer to what is perhaps the greatest mystery of modern science –is dark energy a uniform force across space and time, or has its strength evolved over eons?","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0Google Scholar, Avi was formerly au00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His motto, not surprisingly, is a quote from Carl Sagan: u201cSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.u201dn"},"media":{"alt":"Life in the Universe","caption":"Life in the Universe","imageRatio":0.6415384615384615,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2F7537A6-0C5C-4E5B-9E14-BA7869F2752F-e1633961964235.jpeg","width":650,"height":417},"date":"October 11, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Cosmology","Extraterrestrial Life","Science"]}},{"id":45122,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/does-any-civilization-in-the-universe-survive-climate-change-to-stephen-hawkings-lost-nobel-prize/","title":"Does Any Civilization in the Universe Survive Climate Change to Stephen Hawking's 'Lost' Nobel Prize","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" This weekend’s “Galaxy Report” ranges from the fragile lifespan of technological civilizations to Stephen Hawking’s ‘lost’ Nobel Prize to probing for life on Saturn’s moon, Titan to colonizing Mars could accelerate human evolution.","author":{"name":"Val Landi","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/val-landi/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b736b3c149e5a934d63025820526ad5b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"
The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"ESO Observatories","caption":"ESO Observatories","imageRatio":0.47538461538461541,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/potw1924a-1-e1635263861830.jpg","width":650,"height":309},"date":"October 10, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Astrophysics","Extraterrestrial Life","Physics","Planet Earth","Science","Space","Universe"]}},{"id":15593,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/colossal-cosmic-cold-front-survived-for-over-a-third-of-the-age-of-the-universe/","title":"Colossal Cosmic Cold Front --Survived Over 1/3 the Age of the Universe (Weekend Feature)","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" A colossal “cold front” hurtling through the Perseus galaxy cluster spans about two million light years and has been traveling for over five billion years, over a third of the age of the universe, longer than the existence of our Solar System. Astronomers expected that such an old cold front would have been blurred […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"Colossal Cosmic Cold Front --"Survived Over 1/3 the Age of the Universe"","caption":"Colossal Cosmic Cold Front --"Survived Over 1/3 the Age of the Universe"","imageRatio":0.59999999999999998,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/colossal-cosmic-cold-front-survived-over-13-the-age-of-the-universe-e1633792095230.jpeg","width":650,"height":390},"date":"October 9, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Galaxies","Science"]}},{"id":29689,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/strange-undetected-supermassive-objects-may-exist-at-the-heart-of-almost-all-galaxies-weekend-feature/","title":"Black Hole Enigma --Does the Event Horizon Exist?","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" Could there be as yet unknown supermassive objects lurking at the hearts of galaxies other than black holes? An object so strange that it has managed to avoid gravitational collapse to form a singularity, the smallest object in the universe in an infinitely Planck-scale space, where density and gravity become infinite and space-time curves […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Au00a0Google Scholar, Avi was formerly au00a0NASA Sagan Fellowu00a0at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 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If the sun were to stop burning and to form a black hole, the event […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona. Max can be found two nights a week probing the mysteries of the Universe at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Max received his Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2015.n"},"media":{"alt":"Planck Star","caption":"Planck Star","imageRatio":0.62461538461538457,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/shutterstock_751195177-scaled-e1633528737956.jpg","width":650,"height":406},"date":"October 6, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astronomy","Black Holes","quantum physics","Universe"]}},{"id":45000,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/nasa-scientists-on-the-mystery-of-the-asteroid-psyche-a-primordial-remnant-of-our-early-solar-system/","title":"NASA Scientists on the Mystery of the Asteroid Psyche --A Primordial Remnant of Our Early Solar System?","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced that NASA has its sights set on visiting a mysterious giant asteroid –about 173 miles (280 kilometers) at its widest point–a mystery object about the size of Massachusetts named Psyche that may be the frozen remains of the molten core of a world long gone –the […]","author":{"name":"Avi Shporer","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/avi-shporer/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d779d609abf66164a2fe5f6a04cc65ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":" Avi Shporer,u00a0Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. 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The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"ESO Observatories","caption":"ESO Observatories","imageRatio":0.47538461538461541,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/potw1924a-1-e1635263861830.jpg","width":650,"height":309},"date":"October 4, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Astrobiology","Astronomy","Science","Space","Universe"]}},{"id":44948,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/earths-missing-epochs-to-humans-are-ten-one-billionths-of-cosmic-history-planet-earth-report/","title":"Earth's Missing Epochs to Humans are Ten One-Billionths of Cosmic History --Planet Earth Report","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" u201cPlanet Earth Reportu201d provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species.","author":{"name":"Val Landi","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/val-landi/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b736b3c149e5a934d63025820526ad5b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"

The Daily Galaxy's San Francisco-based founder and editor is Val Landi. Prior to launching dailygalaxy.com in 2007, Val was executive vice-president of global technology publisher, IDG, where he was head of Computerworld Electronic Media and founder of Computerworld.com --one of the Internet's first news sites. Val later joined Palo Alto-based Interval Research as Senior Vice President. Interval --whose mission was to help create the IP foundation for the wired world--was founded by Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder and creator of the Allen Radio Telescope Array in the High Sierra's. Val hold's a Master's Degree ('91) from Harvard University, with a concentration on the history of science. At Harvard, Val studied with I. Bernard Cohen, one of the world's leading authorities on Isaac Newton. The founder of Isis, Cohen was often referred to as the "father of the history of science".n"},"media":{"alt":"Earth from Space","caption":"Earth from Space","imageRatio":1.7765957446808511,"src":"https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/b4e149c26f49a0bf46f43c266e6cee13-1-1.jpg","width":"564","height":"1002"},"date":"October 3, 2021","firstPage":null,"pages":null,"detailItem":null,"isExtractable":true,"pocket":{"categories":["Climate Change","Extraterrestrial Life","Science","UFO"]}},{"id":20511,"uri":"https://dailygalaxy.com/2021/10/a-cosmic-forest-primordial-black-holes-unveil-nature-of-dark-matter/","title":"Primordial Black Holes May Unveil Nature of Dark Matter","subtitle":null,"excerpt":" “Primordial black holes (PBHs) remain hypothetical objects for the moment,” says Alvise Raccanelli of CERN. “Initially proposed by Stephen Hawking in 1971, they have come back to the fore in recent years as possible candidates for explaining dark matter. It is believed that dark matter accounts for approximately 80 percent of all matter […]","author":{"name":"Maxwell Moe","url":"https://dailygalaxy.com/author/maxwell-moe/","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bd4ad5806087fd187a1eb5528cf18e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"