One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject, with different theories about how the universe began, and what may have existed before the universe came into being.
Why is Mars two-faced? Scientists say fresh evidence supports the theory that a monster impact punched the red planet, leaving behind perhaps the largest gash on any heavenly body in the solar system.
White material was uncovered by the Phoenix Lander remote robot digger arm, the most amazingly ultra-tech bucket and spade ever to exist.
US aerospace giant Boeing made it pretty clear last week that it would be interested in making some megabucks by building some of the European Union’s Galileo satellites - those at the heart of Europe’s putative 3.4 billion-Euro global positioning…
Dense regions of dark matter in the early universe may have stunted the growth of the first stars some could still be burning today
You can sleep easy in the knowledge that the world’s most powerful particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will not gobble us all up in the middle of the night. So says a new safety assessment released by CERN, the…
A new study of nearly a million galaxies suggests matter in the universe is distributed in a fractal pattern
The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky. (Galileo had recorded it as a fixed star during observations with his small telescope in 1612 and 1613.)
Until now, astronauts used spacesuits that were designed for floating in space, but Moon missions require a more flexible approach.
After the Apollo program’s widely publicized images of Earth revolutionized public perception of our fragile planet, spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, and their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth.
