When we think about the instruments astronomers use to study celestial objects, we usually imagine the classical telescope, or perhaps the radio antenna – a single,...
On April 24 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit on board the Space Shuttle Discovery, and deployed the next day. Named...
Forget Earth’s mightiest heroes, NASA is launching an initiative that brings together some of Earth’s most brilliant scientists. Instead of “The Avengers”, the agency has named its latest initiative...
Even though we’ve ventured far into the Solar System and our telescopes tell us a lot about distant stars and galaxies, the inner workings of our...
How do we tell how old something is? Well, one way of doing that is by comparing it with something else we already know the age...
Dark matter is one of the biggest subjects in physics at the moment and has been considered to be one of the mysteries of physics for...
NASA believes that we are now on the verge of discovering unquestionable proof that aliens are out there and they plan on delivering this proof by...
For quite a long time, people thought that we were at the center of the Universe. And why wouldn’t they? The Sun, the Moon, even the...
Stars are probably the most important objects in the Universe. They’re certainly the cosmic objects we’re most familiar with – just look up, whether it’s day...
The Mars One Colony Project is going to be delayed a couple of years, which means that the 24 lucky people who will be accepted to be the...