Kepler Space Telescope finds 8 planets in ‘Goldilocks’ zone
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has found eight new planets orbiting sun-like stars at just the right distance for liquid water to exist on their...
Breathtaking images of “Pillars of Creation” taken by Hubble Space Telescope
Among NASA's Hubble Space Telescope’s images, the most breathtaking has to be the iconic view of the “Pillars of Creation”. The photograph, taken twenty...
2014 warmest year on record, says UK Met Office
According to provisional data, 2014 was the UK’s warmest year on record, or since 1910 when official data started being gathered, says the Met...
What is global warming? Causes and effects of global warming
Global warming is the consistent rise in the Earth’s average temperature.
Global warming is not the same thing as climate change, which is defined as...
New Horizons approaches Pluto after a nearly 9-year journey
New Horizons, the NASA spacecraft that left earth in 2006 and has traveled three billion miles, is drawing close to the the dwarf planet...
Bowhead whale genes may hold key to longer lifespan
The bowhead whale has a lifespan of more than 200 years, it is the longest-living mammal on earth. Scientists who studied the whale’s genetic...
Giant and mysterious coronal hole appears at sun’s south pole, says NASA
NASA astronomers say a massive and mysterious coronal hole appeared close to the Sun’s south pole on January 1st.
The hole, which appears as the...
Fanged frog gives birth to tadpoles, does not lay eggs
There are more than 6,000 species of frogs in the world, but there is only one that we know of that gives birth to...
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will start working again in March
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle collider, has undergone a $151 million upgrade and is set to be operational again...
Entire universe created on super computers
Astronomers from Durham University and Leiden University created an entire universe simulation with realistic galaxies on super computers. Their age, mass and size were...