When astronaut Jim Lovell saw Earth outside his window during Apollo 8, the moment forever changed him. “People often say, ‘I hope to go to heaven when I die,’” Lovell previously told Business Insider. “In reality,…
There are many ways Earth could come to an end . For example, we could crash into another planet, be swallowed by a black hole, or be killed by asteroids. However, we can not say when or if one…
Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic particles in tree rings and ice…
Here’s the reality: We’re messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we’re done with our own are wishful thinking. That’s according to Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist who was a…
NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope took this incredible picture of a galaxy that looks like a “gaping portal to another dimension”. ESA said: “In this image taken by Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 4380 looks…
A FORMER NASA scientist says he is “convinced” that life was found on Mars in 1970 when the space agency sent a rover there. Dr Gilbert Levin, who worked on the Viking Mars landers in…
Most of the universe is made up of dark energy, a mysterious force that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. The next largest ingredient is dark matter, which only interacts with the rest of…
There seems to be an imbalance in our galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a strange surplus of gas in the Milky Way galaxy. Using 10 years of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers…
The center of the Milky Way exploded 3.5 million years ago —and may explode again very soon. At the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole which, apparently, likes to blow bubbles. Ballooning…
A look at the scientific evidence for panspermia. Where did life come from? It remains one the biggest questions in biology, and has preoccupied scientists for hundreds of years. The problem, simply put, is that…
The possibility of life on the other planets in the Solar System has always been deliberated by astronomers and scientists in an effort to search for water on these entities. However, this might not be…
Origami is a part of all scholastic arts and craft curriculum. The art that is all about the arrangement of pieces of paper in different shapes to model decorative figures with various folding techniques is…
Whenever someone strikes up a conversation with me about the universe, I get animated. No surprise there: I’ve made a living writing about astronomy, physics, geology, spaceflight, and related areas of science for nearly a decade, and…