An MIT scientist suggests young planets maintain a high temperature for several million years, much longer than previously assumed. This can make such planets easier to detect, because during this hot stage their brightness is not overshadowed by that of ...

University of Oxford astrophysicists suggest that the widely accepted theory regarding the existence of dark energy and its role in the accelerated expansion of the universe is wrong. The alternative explanation they propose puts us in a special place in ...

NASA has recently accomplished the successful launch of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) probe into orbit. The spaceship will be able to collect new data on solar wind. The research can also help scientist understand the way in which solar ...

A team of American astronomers discovered that two terrestrial planets underwent a collision only a few hundred thousand years ago. They were studying what was presumably a very dusty main sequence star in an attempt to determine its age. During ...

The Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched two days ago, is scheduled to dock at the International Space Station today (November 16th) at 4:04 PM CST. The main goal of the mission, called STS-126, is to prepare the station for long ...

Dr. Houssam Toutanji, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has recently published an article which deals with a concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without the use of water. Since regular concrete requires water, ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have detected what seems to be a magnetar. What makes this discovery unique is that the object observed emitted radiation in the visible part of the spectrum, not in the x-ray ...

An international team of astronomers, led by UCSB and Stanford astronomers, captured the collision of two galaxy clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Like the Bullet Cluster collision detected two years ago, this collision supports ...

NASA’s recent tests of the lunar rover have taken the vehicle to its limits. Since the moon has such a harsh environment, NASA is taking all the measures possible to make sure the new rover will be prepared, such as ...

The “Armadillo Aerospace” team was declared the winner of Level One of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, which took place at Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico last Saturday. The winning team was led by non other ...