Physicists at SLAC and Stanford propose that the influence of cosmic rays on early life may explain nature’s preference for a uniform “handedness” among biology’s critical molecules.

Just like we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us, the Milky Way has satellite galaxies with their own satellites. Drawing from data on those galactic neighbors, a new model suggests the Milky Way should have an additional 100 or so very faint satellite galaxies awaiting discovery.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be named for an influential astronomer who left the field better than she found it.

His work aims to deepen our understanding of dark matter, dark energy and other secrets of the universe.