Professor Lord Martin Rees, astronomer royal, has called Elon Musk's plans to colonise Mars a 'dangerous delusion'. Musk has long put forth the idea of colonising Mars, with a series of tweets this … [+3074 chars]
NASA has been performing ongoing tests of its new Space Launch System, also known as the Mega Moon Rocket, which is intended to power an uncrewed trip to the moon later this year and, eventually, to … [+2275 chars]
If you ever get a chance to visit Svalbard in Norway or the Arctic region in Alaska, then keep an eye on the sky from the moment the sun goes down because if you won’t, there is a chance you might mi… [+11715 chars]
Sydney: An Australian team of astronomers have found a slimmer type of red giant star for the first time. These stars have undergone dramatic weight loss, possibly due to the presence of a greedy nei… [+2749 chars]
John Hammonds InGen sought to recreate the world of dinosaurs using genetic material preserved in the guts of mosquitos trapped in amber. The science behind whether or not something like that would e… [+6242 chars]
NASA's Hubble Telescope found the 'missing link' between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes! Astronomers believe that the identified rapidly growing black hole in the … [+2402 chars]
The parasite Cryptosporidium, transmitted through water sources, is one of the most common causes of diarrheal disease in the world. Credit: Muthgapatti Kandasamy and Boris Striepen “We have been in… [+5858 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared a picture of a half-a-kilometre-long crater, which lies on the zero degree longitude on the Red Planet, on its Instagram handle earlier… [+1677 chars]
It will be up to the alien ground beneath their boots if humans have any prospect of surviving on another world for an extended period of time. Because it is so expensive to transfer products and res… [+6883 chars]
In space, a powerful radiowave laser has been found by astronomers. This one-of-a-kind laser is known as megamaser. It has been observed at around 5 billion light-years away from Earth, which is t… [+1644 chars]
An Australian team of astronomers have found a slimmer type of red giant star for the first time. These stars have undergone dramatic weight loss, possibly due to the presence of a greedy neighbour. … [+2627 chars]
BOULDER, Colorado Astronomers have always sought out remote and isolated spots from which their precision observations of the surrounding universe can be made. Now, add one more far-flung location th… [+4453 chars]