Saturn’s moon Titan is an alien world, but surprisingly familiar
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is a fascinating and mysterious world, a world literally shrouded in mystery due to thick clouds that cameras imaging in...
Elon Musk: My view about future of Space X
SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to enable the colonization of Mars.
SpaceX manufactures the...
Venus and Jupiter to get hearts racing with celestial kiss
Early risers are in for a celestial treat this weekend when four planets in our solar system align in the sky, culminating in a...
Ozone may be heating the Earth more than we realize
Ozone may be weakening one of Earth's most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, researchers have found.
A...
In some places, black holes are tearing apart thousands of stars at a time
At the heart of the more massive galaxies in the Universe, there are supermassive black holes (SMBHs) so powerful that they outshine all of...
Eight years later, this supernova is still revealing secrets about the lives of stars
Astronomers have uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion that was discovered eight years ago, but is continuing to evolve even as scientists...
Life elements could have been generated in asteroids, shows NASA study
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be...
Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars
The high efficiency, light weight and flexibility of the latest solar cell technology means photovoltaics could provide all the power needed for an extended...
Scientists reveal an Earth-like alien world on Saturn’s moon Titan
Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere.
While these...
Scientists find the ancestor of a supermassive black hole
Scientists identified a distant object with properties that lie between those of a galaxy and those of a so-called quasar.
The object was born relatively...