Unbelievable facts, recent scientific discoveries, and thought-provoking theories about space exploration and the Universe in general. Interesting reads for amateur astronomers, skywatchers, and anyone who would like to learn more about the universe we live in!
Perhaps, the intelligent life is in its very young stage in the Universe scale. 200 billion galaxies show a potential to continue their existence for hundreds of billions of years or even more. Since the planets and the life are so new in our Universe, says Dimitar Sasselov from Harvard…
In 1976, NASA conducted a research mission on Mars called Viking. It was an experiment of sending special robots to the red planet and it was aimed to detect extraterrestrial life. Thirty-six years later, an international team of mathematicians and other scientists concluded that the mission could have actually discovered traces…
What if we could look into the depths of the ancient universe? It could be that there is more reality to this statement than it sounds. After seven years of research, scientists from the University of California (UCLA) have managed to construct an instrument called ‘time machine’ which allows them…
Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once again has caught the attention of the international community with a statement that if aliens exist (and they probably do), then humanity should not attempt to contact them. Confined to a wheelchair due to a neurological disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the astrophysicist made…
What we see in the Universe is only 4% of the total existing mass and energy. Two new studies attempt to shed light on the dark side of the universe, i.e. the remaining 96%, which consists of the mysterious dark matter and even more mysterious dark energy. The first study…
For years, scientists have believed that the Moon was created after a clash of a large celestial body into the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. However, a new chemical analysis of lunar rocks, as regarding the amount of titanium, has found them to be too similar to that of terrestrial…
This May, we will have a spectacular celestial event - a super moon! The moon's distance from the Earth is not always the same due to the elliptical shape of the orbit and variations in the gravitational attraction between the Moon, Earth, and Sun. When a full moon occurs close…
The question of the existence of extraterrestrial life has intrigued millions of people for many ages. Eventually, are we alone in this world, or is there life on other planets? A new study comes to strengthen the second scenario. Not only could there be life somewhere out there, but potentially,…
