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Physicists Recreate The Formation Of The Milky Way
A team of astrophysicists in Switzerland and the United States have used supercomputers to create what they claim is the world’s first realistic simulation of how the Milky Way came into existence....
View ArticleSomeone Stuck A Camera On A Balloon And Floated It Up Into Space
You can do some incredible things with a video camera and a vision. Page Stephenson launched a balloon with a camera from Kent, Oregon, and it flew for 2 and a half hours before landing 87 miles away....
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Astronomers Discover The Two Biggest Black Holes Ever Recorded
It's been an exciting week in the science world. On Monday, NASA announced that it had found the first planet that could sustain life. Now scientists from at the University of California, Berkeley...
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Scientists May Have Found The 'God Particle' That Makes Physics Work
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, say they might have caught a glimpse of the Higgs Boson — which would help explain why matter has mass in the universe — according to a...
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The Huge Radioactive Storm That Hit Earth This Week May Have Made The...
The Northern Lights, also known as the aurora borealis, are always a sight to behold, but this year the lights may have been even more spectacular — due to a huge radioactive storm that hit the earth...
View ArticleA Rare Home Video Surfaces Of The 1986 Challenger Disaster
More than 25 years after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which lead to the deaths of seven crew members, the New Scientist has posted a newly surfaced home video of the tragic occurrence. The...
View ArticleAre Kindergartners Better Economists Than The Average Adult?
When playing the Ultimatum Game, you might think so: Via Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business: Most of the older children, second graders and sixth graders...
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This Enormous Mass Of Floating Antarctic Algae Can Be Seen From Space
An enormous algae bloom off the coast of Antarctica is so huge and colorful that it can easily be seen from space. A stunning photo of the monster algae bloom was released March 4 by the Australian...
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ASTRONOMER: Here's The Real Way To Defend Earth From Asteroids
An asteroid smashing into Earth could be an extinction-level event, and there's a big one heading right for us. Apophis is an asteroid that was spotted in 2004 and is 215 yards across: bigger than a...
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There's A Once-In-A-Lifetime Chance To See Venus Cross The Sun Next Month
Next month, Venus will cross the sun for the last time in more than 100 years. On June 5 and 6, Venus will appear as a small black dot on the surface of the sun, and won't be scheduled to appear again...
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Check Out NASA's Latest Incredible Photo Of Mars
A NASA Rover that senses the best light for a photograph captured this amazing scene of a martian crater. The Endeavor Crater spans about 14 miles in diameter, NASA said in a release. The rover,...
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PRINCETON SCIENTIST: The Probability Of Alien Life Is Highly Overrated
Inhabitants of Earth believe in aliens because of optimism, not scientific evidence. A Princeton University study by Edwin Turner and David Spiegal analyzed what is actually known about life on other...
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You Will Probably Be Dead The Next Time Venus Crosses The Sun
Later today, Venus will be visible (weather permitting) as a small black dot moving across the face of the sun for the last time this century. The phenomenon, known as the transit of Venus, last...
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Europe Is Planning To Build A Huge New Telescope That Could Give Us Detailed...
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is set to build the world's largest optical/infrared telescope, with hopes that it will be up and operating by the early 2020s, according to a press release by...
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Japanese Astronomers Say They've Found The Oldest Galaxy In The Universe
Japanese astronomers claim to have found the oldest galaxy in the universe using telescopes at the Hawaii observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, The Guardian reports. The scientists estimate that...
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Here's Why June 30, 2012, Will Be One Second Longer
Roughly every one and half years, one extra second, or leap second, is added to clocks around the world. Why? First, the technical bits. The length of day is determined by Earth's rotation around...
View ArticleUranus Almost Had A Name That Didn't Cause Embarrassment
The common pronunciation of the planet "Uranus" (yoo-RAIN-us) often elicits giggles — to the extent that old reference books avoided using the name whenever possible, according this video by C.G.P....
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There Are Snowflakes On Mars
MIT researchers have found snowflakes in clouds on Mars. But the ice particles are not the kind you find on Earth (so relinquish your fantasies of little Martians building snowmen). To begin with,...
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Unforgettable Footage From The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
With the Cold War raging and U.S. relations strained on numerous fronts, people thought President John F. Kennedy was crazy when he said he wanted an American man on the moon by the end of the 1960s....
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There's An Underground Ocean On Saturn's Biggest Moon
There may be a liquid ocean beneath the icy surface of Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. Evidence of a sub-surface body of water comes from gravity measurements made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which...
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