Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space
It’s time to say goodbye to one of the most storied explorers of our age: Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space, NASA announced December 10th. Voyager 2, which launched in 1977, has spent more four decades...
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Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on Earth would not be able to reproduce and would simply not exist. Little was known about a...
15,000 galaxies shine in this 1 view from the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope has been at work for almost three decades, but it’s still learning new skills — like how to squeeze an incredible 15,000 galaxies into a single image. That’s the feat Hubble accomplished...
Evidence for the Tall White Aliens
Charles Hall is famous for his book series “Millennial Hospitality”. The author is actually an US air force personnel, and wrote the books to reveal his experiences with the Tall White Aliens, when he...
Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer. A new study that reconstructs the deep history of our...
Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking’s final theory about the big bang
Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has been published last month in the Journal of High Energy Physics. The...
Tour of the moon
Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south...
RIP Stephen Hawking
Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th January 1942 (exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo) in Oxford, England. His parents’ house was in north London but during the second world war Oxford was...
Timelapse of the entire Universe
On a cosmic time scale, human history is as brief as the blink of an eye. By compressing all 13.8 billion years of time into a 10 minute scale, this video shows just how...
FTL
A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible. Written and directed by Adam Stern. Starring Ty Olsson, Karin Konoval and Aliyah O’Brien.