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Posted on May 16, 2015 in Uncategorized Our solar system has been voyaging through the very low density Local Interstellar Cloud, a region about 30 light-years across that's as sparse...

Posted on May 1, 2015 in Uncategorized   "We can see a completely new component of the center of our galaxy with NuSTAR's images," said Kerstin Perez of Columbia University...

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 About 160 globular clusters have been spotted encircling our galaxy, the Milky Way, mostly toward its central bulge. These clusters are among the oldest objects...

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 in Uncategorized Researchers from Brown University have completed a new analysis of an ancient Martian lake system in Jezero Crater, near the planet’s equator. The...

Posted on Mar 27, 2015 in Uncategorized The existence and stability of atoms relies heavily on the fact that neutrons are slightly more mas-sive than protons. The experimentally determined masses...

Is it possible that our original home exists as a great collection of stars, a star cluster known as Messier 67 (shown above), a gathering of suns and stellar remnants...

“Should we ever discover that a second genesis had occurred in our solar system, independently outside the Earth,” said Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in 2010 when she was director of flight operations...

It was the greatest extinction event of all time (at least by Earth standards): Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet...

Is our universe merely one of billions? Evidence of the existence of 'multiverse' revealed for the first time by a cosmic map of background radiation data gathered by Planck telescope....

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that can approach the Earth's orbital distance to within about 28 million miles (45 million kilometers). They range in size from as small...

he Hubble Space Telescope site estimates there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. A recent German super-computer simulation estimates that the number may be as high as...

The largest known structure in the universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The large quasar group (LQG -a portion shown above)) is so large that it...

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 in Uncategorized           Data released early this year from the European Space Agency's (ESO) HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets...

Posted on Nov 1, 2012            An international team of astrophysicists, including UQ's Dr Holger Baumgardt, has shed light on the long-standing mystery of the binding...

Posted on Oct 19, 2012 in Uncategorized                   Dr Grace Augustine's Avatars on Pandora the the movie Avatar go well beyond current technologies. Robotic avatars...

Posted on Oct 22, 2012 in Uncategorized                           The Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole may soon devour much...

Posted on Oct 5, 2012 in Uncategorized            A team of Israeli, French and Swiss biologists have discovered how a strain of the bacterium Halomonas known...

Posted on Oct 6, 2012 in Uncategorized           "1. Where are they? We'll you might be able to ask that with a more informed position if...

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 in Uncategorized             Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure...

Dark matter makes up the majority of mass in our universe. However, we cannot directly measure the stuff as it doesn’t interact with electromagnetic radiation (i.e. it doesn’t emit or...

Scientists at the Scientific Research Centre Bistra in Ptuj, Slovenia, have theorized that the Newtonian idea of time as an absolute quantity that flows on its own, along with the...

Posted on Jul 13, 2012             Cosmism, an emerging “religion 2.0” that is part of a radical futurist conception of the future development of humanity,...

Posted on Apr 12, 2012 in Uncategorized           A team of astronomers have identified two 11- to 12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away...

Posted on Apr 26, 2012 in Uncategorized            Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition,...

Posted on Mar 7, 2012 in Uncategorized            The discovery last year of a vast section of a spiral, star-forming arm at the Milky Way’s outskirts...

Posted on Mar 13, 2012 in Uncategorized                On 1994 July 16-22, over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (image below) collided with the...

Posted on Jan 14, 2012 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Space The worldview of the cosmos as a biological universe is a revolutionary perspective as profound a revision in our way...

Posted on Jan 11, 2012             The Kepler Space Mission's search for habitable planets in a tiny window representing 1/400th of the Milky is proving Arthur...

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 in Uncategorized            Huge dunes of tiny particles of carbon cover more than 20 percent of Titan's surface. A new analysis of...

Posted on Jan 28, 2012 in Uncategorized          "We have cracked open the door to what is possible for life elsewhere in the universe," Felisa Wolfe-Simon of...

Posted on Nov 7, 2011 In the "hadal" zone, which at 11,000 meters is deeper than Mount Everest is high –- the pressure rises to 1,000 bar, or a ton...

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 The inner workings of supermassive black holes may be less hostile than we realize, possibly with stable regions where life and even planets could exist,...

Posted on Oct 31, 2011 There's also a chance that past visits to Earth by intelligent aliens left signs much closer to home. But probability and the length of the...

Posted on Sep 15, 2011 in Uncategorized A dwarf galaxy named Sagittarius loaded with dark matter has careened twice through our much larger home galaxy in the past two billion...

Posted on Sep 27, 2011 in Uncategorized Scientists may be able to spot evidence of elusive dark matter by detecting vibrations on the surfaces of stars that could indicate that...

Posted on Sep 12, 2011 in Uncategorized A race across existence has helped in the search for an explanation of everything.  Light from an event over two billion light years...

Posted on Jul 5, 2011 in Uncategorized It is a widely held and scientifically viable belief that humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa some 150 to 200 thousand years ago. However...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it, scientists said last week at a meeting...

Posted on May 18, 2011 in Uncategorized At the 50th anniversary celebration of NASA on October 1, 2008, Stephen Hawking, then Newton's heir as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at...

Cosmic rays zapping the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations, rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Cosmic ray "hotspots" have also been...

Posted on May 5, 2011 in Uncategorized On a planet that is so markedly divided between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’, population growth is often seen as a massive...

Einstein never interpreted time "t" as a fourth dimension of space. Space is not 3D + T, space is 4D. With clocks we measure numerical order of material change. This...

In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years...

China's Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) announced Thursday that the National Radio Astronomy Observatory has been monitoring signals...

Posted on Feb 3, 2011 in Uncategorized With snows ravaging most of the USA we thought it appropraite not to forget that in 2010, members of the National Academy of...

Posted on Feb 23, 2011 in Uncategorized Wonder what life of Jupiter's moon, Europa, might look like? Checkout a  new species of archaebacteria, Pyrococcus CH1,discovered thriving on a mid-Atlantic ridge...

Posted on Oct 1, 2010 in Uncategorized   Tocco da Casauria is an ancient, quiet town, located in the mountainous region of Italy's interior. It's also home to an electrical...

Posted on Aug 24, 2010   In the current search for advanced  extraterrestrial life SETI experts say the odds favor detecting alien AI rather than biological life because the time...

“Eventually, it will be necessary to have a kind of Noah’s ark there, a diversity of species from the biosphere." Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist/Research, European Space Agency If the human...