Eminent astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking has joined forces with science investor and philanthropist Yuri Milner to launch a revolutionary $100m “moonshot” which ...
April 13, 2016 at 1:00 am by Ashley Allen
It was recently reported that the deep space telescope, Kepler had run into trouble and had forced itself to enter its emergency mode. Thankfully the ...
April 12, 2016 at 1:37 pm by Alexander Neil
NASA engineers have raised a mission emergency in regards to the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has unexpectedly entered its emergency mode 75 million miles from ...
April 11, 2016 at 12:40 pm by Alexander Neil
Astronomy circles are all abuzz over speculation that a potential ninth planet – a Jupiter-sized super-planet –has been discovered in our solar system, with some sources ...
April 8, 2016 at 9:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Astrophysicists have discovered a distant planet that has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky. While the Jupiter-sized world, named KELT-4Ab, orbits a single star ...
April 4, 2016 at 9:40 pm by Ashley Allen
NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have recently been constructing a team of astronomers as part of a project to construct a powerful new exoplanet-hunting tool. ...
March 31, 2016 at 5:30 pm by Alexander Neil
Players of MMORPG Eve Online might have thought they had witnessed the greatest battle the game had ever seen following 2014’s battle at B-R5RB – a 20-hour firefight, ...
March 29, 2016 at 8:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Getting free games bundles with your graphics card or motherboard isn’t something new, that has been around for quite a while now, but it is a rarity that we also see ...
March 29, 2016 at 5:30 pm by Bohs Hansen
Only a month after the launch of their newest ASTRO-H X-ray telescope, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have reported that contact has been lost with the ...
March 29, 2016 at 2:30 pm by Alexander Neil
When sending something into space, it is important to consider how big it is. Something large may be useful in space, but it is no good if it can’t be carried up there ...
March 26, 2016 at 11:30 pm by Alexander Neil
For the first time ever, astronomers have recorded the moment at which a star started to explode – known as the “shock breakout” – within the optical wavelength of ...
March 22, 2016 at 7:30 pm by Ashley Allen
The dwarf planet on the edge of our Solar System, Pluto, is one of the most enigmatic and unknown to us. Now, a newly published report based on data taken by the New Horizons ...
March 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Alexander Neil
The human race can do amazing things, we’ve discovered how the universe works, figured out the theory of black holes and even set foot on the Moon. With plans ahead to ...
March 6, 2016 at 10:40 am by Gareth Andrews
When you look up at the night sky, the brightest thing you will see is likely to be the Moon. However, a team of Russian engineers want to ensure that the second brightest ...
March 3, 2016 at 2:50 pm by Peter Donnell
Earlier this month, the discovery of the gravitational waves shook the scientific community as it confirmed one of Einstein’s theories that it took us a century to ...
February 26, 2016 at 10:30 am by Alexander Neil
