The VLT gears up to look for alien planets in Alpha...
Breakthrough Initiatives and the European Southern Observatory announced on Monday an agreement to upgrade the instruments of the organization’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in...
Experts “photograph” dark matter for the first time in history
Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada, have captured the first image of dark matter. The composite image showing a dark matter web linking...
NASA scientists protect astronauts from the Sun with new tool
Scientists from NASA have come up with a new way to detect harmful solar storms in advance by using a new technique. Instead of...
See the Snow Moon, a penumbral eclipse & comet 45P on...
Those who enjoy watching the various events that take place in the night sky will have quite a party on Friday night when a...
Polymethylpentene wrap keep things cool even in sunny days
A team of researchers led by Xiaobo Yin, a materials scientist at the University of Colorado, have created a plastic film capable of freezing...
This Lithium-Ion battery has a built in fire extinguisher
A research team from Stanford University released a document detailing their experiments with the flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (or TPP). They plan to include...
ExoMars gets first images of Mars as ESA aims at more...
On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) received the first images from ExoMars’ TGO spacecraft. The pictures show incredible detail of Mars' surface features,...
Humanity’s oldest ancestor is not a monkey but a weird fish
Scientists have identified a new microorganism that could be humanity's oldest ancestor. It is a bag-like sea creature with a large mouth, eyes like...
Opportunity Mars Rover set for last missions to find water
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover is ready for the last two years of its mission after it spent the month of October studying the rich...
US Air Force launches the GEO-3 to improve missile alert net
The Air Force plans to launch a military satellite this evening and its live streaming the event via YouTube, beginning at 7:26 p.m. EST....