Astronomy professor Doug Finkbeiner, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, speculated recently that the 25,000 light-year long gamma rays emissions north and south of the Milky Way’s core might in fact be caused by an […]
Recently I decided to watch a completely re-worked CGI version of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Although the visual effects were greatly improved, watching the movie again made me realize just how badly […]
This week astronomers released some bitter/sweet news for the legion of believers who held stock in the December 12, 2012 Mayan Apocalypse prediction, after it was announced that the scientists responsible for converting the ancient […]
On Sept. 29th 2010, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Steven Vogt and his team of scientists made the exciting announcement they had detected the presence of an Earth-like planet three […]
Scientists at the US space agency NASA, have speculated that Saturn‘s moon Titan was a likely candidate to support life, after analyzing the latest data sent back from their space probe Cassini. Titan is the […]
On April 29, 2010 it was announced that water ice and organic molecules have been found on a 123 mile diameter asteroid, lying in the main ‘asteroid belt‘ between Mars and Jupiter, known as 24 […]
A large fireball seen in the Irish night sky on Wednesday caused quite a stir, as it flew low enough to be mistaken by one Cavan resident as an airplane. The next day, however, fortune […]
This Wednesday at 1247 GMT, an object named 2010 AL30 will pass close to the Earth. At a fly-by distance of 76,000 miles (122,000km), the object will be approximately one third closer to us than […]
Researchers at Ohio State University have recently concluded that around 15 percent of all stars in our galaxy could host solar systems. Our galaxy is estimated to contain between 100 and 400 billion stars, so […]
For many moviegoers, “Star Trek” came into their lives when the new 2009 film came out featuring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, with little care or interest having been paid in the original space exploration […]
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