Oxford researchers outline the various evolutionary steps to human existence These steps take longer than a planet is actually habitable before its star dies What’s happened on Earth is unlikely typical of what happens on…
An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed today, Sir Roger Penrose has said, as he received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Sir Roger, 89, who won the honour for his seminal work proving…
NASA used data from the now-defunct Kepler telescope to scan Milky Way Found 50% of Sun-like stars likely have planets which host liquid water This range of habitable worlds could be as low as 7% or as…
No other satellite is as large, relative to the planet it orbits, as the Moon. How did the Earth end up with such a whopping neighbour? The Moon is a mystery. Everyone on Earth can…
“When people find out about that they are going to say, ‘Who put that there? Who put that there?’” These are the words of Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, in…
Astronomers have discovered six galaxies ensnared in the cosmic “spider’s web” of a supermassive black hole soon after the Big Bang, according to research published Thursday that could help explain the development of these enigmatic monsters. Black holes that…
Huge black hole has been growing far faster than scientists would expect for a black hole so young A giant black hole, as massive as 12 billion suns, has been found by astronomers and seems…
A scientific team of American alien hunters claims that if advanced life does indeed exist on any one of a 1,000 different star systems, they could be watching Earth right now! American alien hunters are probably the world’s most…
Soon, astronauts on moon missions won’t have any excuse for not answering their texts. NASA has awarded Nokia of America $14.1 million to deploy a cellular network on the moon. The freaking moon. The grant is part of…
A robotic arm extended from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly contacted the rugged surface of asteroid Bennu Tuesday to gobble up pristine samples, a climactic moment in the $1 billion mission to bring asteroid material back…
The rover will scan for bacteria that can cause strange rock formations similar to those on Earth Nasa’s Perserverance rover will use x-rays to look for Martian fossils, powered by artificial intelligence. The space agency said that the rover will be…
Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’ Nasa is close to finding life on Mars but the world is not ready for the “revolutionary” implications of the discovery, the space agency’s chief scientist…
NASA has a plan to save mankind as the end of the world becomes more than just a possibility, a scientist revealed in a sobering interview. First announced by the space agency in 2016, the…