This artist's concept shows the Euclid spacecraft, which will launch to an orbit around the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. Image by ESA/C. Carreau. Update: Jan 29 | This week, NASA announced that it will partner with the…

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal at Mettmann, Germany's Neanderthal Museum. Photo by Stefan Scheer, Courtesy Wikimedia. Who doesn't love a good story about a cloned Neanderthal baby? As they flickered across the web this week, I read them…

Since the last Kepler catalog was released in February 2012, the number of candidates discovered in the Kepler data has increased by 20 percent and now totals 2,740 potential planets orbiting 2,036 stars. Image by NASA. In case…