Science journalist Johnson (Peppermint Twist, coauthor) presents a well-rounded biography of the brilliant, contrarian scientist Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974). Zwicky, who as a young man left his homeland ...

Though Fritz Zwicky is not well known to the public today, astronomers around the world, decades after his death in 1974, still gleefully gossip about his infamous professional battles and outrageous ...

Dr. Fritz Zwicky of Caltech, astronomer, physicist and inventor, is one of the world’s leading experts on jet propulsion. Early in World War II, he left astronomy and joined a group of scientists who ...

In the late 1950s, there was a nontrivial global effort, a race in fact, to be the first nation to send an object to Earth’s orbit. Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite, was launched 65 years ...

A faint star which is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun (and which may be the sun’s nearest neighbor in interstellar space) was reported recently by astronomers of the University of Chicago’s ...

A group of scientists from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington has modified an old telescope to create a powerful tool capable of capturing high-definition ...