A team of Harvard scientists believe the remnants of an ancient Earth, dating to the time another planet collided with ours to produce the moon, may still be lodged deep within the Earth’s mantleBy Kristopher Love, The Spirit ScienceIf you thought it was a trip to see the Earth...
Have you ever wondered what it would sound like to be in space? Truth is, sound does not travel through a vacuum so sound in space is actually different from what you might be used to here on Earth. In space, sound has to travel through molecules and make them vibrate in order to...
For the first time, scientists have simulated the evolution of the universe on a computer and have got such accurate results. The digital universe seems indistinguishable from the real one. The computer model will help test theories about how the universe works and what it consis...
The Moon is the eye in the sky to the inhabitants of Earth. It provides us with the natural tidal cycles which are said to maintain the equilibrium of all species on the planet. Peculiarly, certain phases of the Moon cycle are even known to affect our moods and emotions. Most wil...
Part 1 Act One : Drama in the HeavensINTRODUCTIONLooking into the sky above it is fascinating to realize that history from beginning to end has been written according to the stars and their movements; it becomes a ‘story-wheel’ of the planets, constellations, the sun and the ...
Since its launch in the spring of 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has been hunting exoplanets. The holy grail being a planet that is essentially like ours in terms of size, composition, and habitability: an Earth-twin.While we still haven't found a planet that exactly fits th...
The X-37B, the U.S. Air Force's secret robotic space plane, has now been in orbit for almost 500 days, a record-breaking time period for space endurance. The latest version of the relatively tiny spacecraft, which is just one quarter of the size of the space shuttles, was launche...
A NASA camera on Mars has captured what appears to be artificial light emanating outward from the planet's surface. The photo, beamed millions of miles from Mars to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was taken last week, apparently by one of two NASA rovers on the...
The revelations of our energetic Universe keep on coming from many sources, including NASA’s new satellites, and it’s quite remarkable.The observable Universe is something mankind has read as a language since the beginning. The unobservable worlds have always been the realm o...
At the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, astronaut Dave Bowman’s final words were “My God – it’s full of stars!” But for NASA’s Kepler mission, it might be better to change the line to “My God – it’s full of planets!”Since December 2009, the space observatory has ...
In modern science, the prevailing opinion supposes that whatever falls into a black hole disappears forever and breaks apart into the component parts.However, a new theory states that black holes do not destroy the matter but rather are a kind of exit gate which lead to other uni...
NASA has recently released photos of a strange, shiny, "thing" that appeared on the Martian ground, in a place where it hadn't been just 12 days before. The US space agency announced it was a rock, but the pictures they have first released were low-resolution, black and white.NAS...