Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the brightest star of all?

Actually, it’s not about the brightest star of all, but the brightest star in our galaxy. It seems there’s a new contender for the title of Milky Way brightest star; it’s near its dusty center, and infrared observations performed by NASA have revealed how bright it is by piercing the dust that surrounds it.
The thing […]

Ice on Mars - seems like a reality

The Phoenix Lander was definitely a marking moment for scientists and researchers, who now have the opportunity of actually seeing what they could have just speculated about before. For example, just take a look at this picture the probe sent back on Friday.

Phoenix scientist Ray Arvidson said there may be ice directly under the Phoenix […]

Phoenix Spacecraft lands on Mars

The ball aproaches the field and… touchdown! NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander survived the fiery dive into Mars’ atmosphere Sunday to make a three-point landing in the planet’s arctic regions. This is absolutely a fantastic achievement which included an impressive amount of work and so many people that struggled for this common magnificent objective.
“It looks as […]

Two pictures show the progress of technology - first and finest picture of Earth

Our life may be better or worse, our health may be better or worse, but one thing has definetly improved over the past decades: technology; and that’s definetly something good. So what better way to prove the progress of technology than 2 pictures of Earth? Thanks to space.com for this.The first was taken from the […]

Get a glimpse of a black hole’s fury

Recently, a team of researches (with the help of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and a host of international telescope partners) have managed to get the clearest observation yet of the “core” of a black hole.A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so […]

Get me to the Moon on time

NASA’s space shuttle is set to take off on its last mission in 2010; the agency is really busy preparing to get a ship on the moon until 2020. But recent developments suggest that there may be delays, as does Nature news.
NASA officials say that the programme is still on track, but others are […]

Easier (but still not easy) way to other habitable planets

The hunt is on for finding other planets we can live on; this is probably the next step for us as a species, and may just be crucial. But we haven’t had much luck with that so far. Now, scientists are using a method which is claimed to be more precise in calibrating the measurement […]

Huge Meteorite Impact Found In UK — Britain’s Largest

After the “crash site” in Peru, meteorites keep the headlines again! This time, scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen found the biggest meteorite to ever crash in the British islands. The scientists believe that a large meteorite hit northwest Scotland about 1.2 billion years ago near the Scottish town of […]

The first witnessed birth of a black hole

The date of March 19, 2008 will be remembered as a very important day in astronomy and science; it’s the day mankind had its first chance of witnessing the birth of a black hole. It all started when the “Pi of the Sky” telescope detected the brightest ever optical outburst from a distant place, about […]

New Luminous Spots Found On Jupiter

Scientists from the American Geophysical Union published some fascinating findings concerning some unexpected luminous spots on Jupiter caused by its moon Io, which they have observed. Io is in fact in some ways similar to Earth, in that it causes auroras on its mother planet. It also has the most spectacular volcanic activity in the […]

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