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...temperature of our own planet, where life could in theory be found - it might seem like a letdown to stumble instead on a world bigger than Jupiter, hotter than molten iron and, with a density like that of Styrofoam, the most insubstantial planet ever seen. But when NASA astronomer Bill Borucki stood before a packed audience at this week's meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington to announce the discovery of Styrofoam World, along with four other huge, hot planets, he didn't seem even slightly disappointed. (Watch a video about Galileo and the Year of Astronomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five New Planets: The Kepler Telescope's on a Roll | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...only does Pimco managing director Bill Gross oversee the world's biggest bond fund, his views often sway markets. In a late December interview with TIME's John Curran, Gross pointed to the second half of 2010 as a period when investors large and small will reckon with a new reality of poor economic growth and a Federal Reserve that is hard-pressed to offer much help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pimco's Bill Gross Sees 2010 as Year of Reckoning | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

President Barack Obama has voiced his support for the plan, and a bill that would create such an agency is currently moving through Congress...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bank Bailout Overseer, an HLS Professor, Named Bostonian of the Year | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

...they fail to reach their goal. These users also designate a recipient: a person, a charity or, as an additional incentive, an "anti-charity," i.e., an organization on either side of several highly controversial issues. (Think pro-life or pro-choice advocacy groups or the presidential libraries of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush.) (See the 10 worst fast-food meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Weight-Loss Plan: Getting Paid to Shed Pounds | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...coax North Korea into relinquishing its nukes. And that policy remained despite repeated North Korean nuclear and missile tests. Nobody expected anything different from the Obama Administration, and Obama, to his credit, didn't bother to create the illusion that there were any good alternatives. (See pictures of Bill Clinton's North Korea rescue mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Defaulted to Bush Foreign Policy Positions | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

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