US Air and Space museum opens new spaceflight exhibit with Hubble instruments back on Earth Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space ...
Clouds, fog disappoint stargazers looking for dazzling meteor showers in much of Asia Thousands of stargazers across Asia stayed awake overnight to catch ...
E.T phone Rome: Vatican calls in experts for conference on possible alien life E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in ...
Is there life on other planets? The Vatican has asked that age-old question over the past five days during a "study week" on astrobiology gathering leading scientists from around the world. "The questions of life?s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere ...
Planetary Society plans new attempt to launch 'solar sail' spacecraft propelled by sunlight Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try ...
The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie. The latest big screen offering from Sony ...
The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fuelled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie. Sony Pictures's latest big screen offering "2012" ...
Astronomers in Chile and Japan have for the first time seen part of the "cosmic web" of galaxies that permeates the known universe in a gigantic assembly some seven billion light-years from Earth. Viewed through the world's most powerful telescopes, the discovery ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have seen the furthest back in time ever, measuring light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago, just after the dawn of the universe. They traced a gamma-ray burst called GRB 090423 to see the light ...
It took 13 billion years to reach Earth, but astronomers have seen the light of an exploding mega-star that is the most distant object ever detected, two studies published Thursday reported. The stunning gamma-ray burst (GRB) was observed by two teams of ...
Farthest galaxy cluster found The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with data from optical and infrared telescopes. The cluster is located about 10.2 billion light years away and is observed as ...
Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of the Universe and our place in it. Galileo's ...
