Life on Earth is plentiful and nearly all-encompassing to the point where it is hard to truly imagine what a ‘lifeless’ area would look like. Nevertheless, we have only to look away from the Earth …
Asteroids are a common objects in our solar system. Most of them originate from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, followed by the ones that come from the distant Oort cloud that encircles us …
Perhaps the greatest mystery of modern science is how did life emerge on Earth? There are theories now that suggest life itself is foreign in origin, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy. At first, …
Are we alone in the universe? This is perhaps the greatest unanswered question in astronomy right now. So far we have sent probes in search of life and have found nothing. Sure there is still …
One just has to watch television shows such as The History Channel and the Sci-Fi Channel to see so-called experts like Giorgio A. Tsoukalos promoting belief in UFOs and ancient alien astronauts. It comes as …
The image above shows an artists’ impression of what the surface of the super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star might look like. However, given that the planet receives only about 2% of the light Earth receives from …
The image above shows a focused laser beam shooing into space from Earth, which some researchers hope might attract the attention of alien astronomers. According to a new study by James Clark and Kerri Cahoy, …
Although the consensus among planetary scientists and biologists is that the existence of life on Mars, both present and past has not been proven, one investigator, who was the lead scientist during the Viking 2 …
The image above shows an artists’ impression of the exoplanet Kepler-452b, the first exoplanet that was found to orbit a Sun-like star. Dubbed a super-Earth, the planet is about 60% bigger than Earth, which is …
The image above shows an artist’s impression of the impact between Earth and a Mars-sized object in an event that is widely accepted as the mechanism that formed Earth’s Moon only about 100 million years …
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