This video still of data shows the most detailed ever view of our radio universe as revealed by LOFAR, which built a map of 4.4 million galaxies. (Image credit: LOFAR/Frits Sweijen) Millions of new … [+2150 chars]
By Gary Boyle For thousands of years, the night sky was just a splash of random dots. Over time, constellations were formed by connecting the brighter points of light of a certain area of sky. Here,… [+3527 chars]
We recently learned that humanity has very little genetic variation and that this It could endanger the human future. However, it is important to understand how men and women have evolved throughout … [+3313 chars]
Mars has been a long-shot target for NASA and various space researchers around the world who believe that the Red Planet could be a potential human colony in the future. Now, the theoretical travel t… [+2834 chars]
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific first Five tiny robots designed and made in Mexico will blast off for the moon later … [+2645 chars]
Scientists got a strange sense of déjà vu when they took a closer look at a mysterious series of bright flashes in a galaxy just 12 million light-years away. The flashes, known as a frequent fast ra… [+4041 chars]
Space - the final frontier. It is where humanity is destined to go in search of resources to bring back to Earth or another planet to call home. After all, there are many galaxies just like ours out … [+3792 chars]
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PLANETARY alignments and conjunctions are relatively common as the solar system continues its orbit. While humans can't typically see the planets with their naked eye, they occasionally appear visi… [+1579 chars]
Artist’s impression of Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars – what’s called a circumbinary planet. The planet, which can be seen in the foreground, was discovered by NAS… [+4663 chars]
A new study has found that two supermassive black holes will merge within 10,000 years, in a collision that will send ripples across the universe. The research, led by a team of astronomers from the… [+2188 chars]
That must've been a powerful explosion. Moon Rocks The Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earths Moon, according t… [+2446 chars]