{Let’s talk about puppy love. Not youthful romance, but the love between a person and his or her pooch. As every dog lover knows, canine companions make for some of the best friends we could wish for. They play with us, cuddle with us, listen to us and make us feel like the most special […]

{The Martian poster with astronaut Gus Grissom's space suit on display in the background at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Credit: Alejandro Rojas.} If you haven't seen the movie (minor spoiler alert), it is about a NASA astronaut who is part of a manned mission on the surface of Mars in 2035. He is hurt during […]

{Just in time for the holiday shopping season, astronomers snagged a two-for-one deal on mysterious blasts of radio waves from other galaxies. An unprecedented double burst recently showed up along with four more of these flashes, researchers report online November 25 at arXiv.org.} Fast radio bursts, first detected in 2007, are bright blasts of radio […]