Tag: space

Deep space exploration could lead to the emergence of a new breed of genetically- or robotically-modified humans, a top astronomer has predicted. U.K. Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said that in future, some people may decide to leave Earth in order…

EARTH VERSUS MARS. Earth is basically perfect for human beings. The distance from the sun is right, the oxygen in the air is right and the atmosphere — containing necessary greenhouse gases and protecting us from most foreign objects like…

Space is big and dark, and since there is no air, no one can hear you scream as you float away forever and ever and ever. But those are only the human-sized terrors that space has to offer our nightmares….

Astronomers have a theory on how the planet Uranus got flipped onto its side. They used detailed computer simulations showing a body about twice the size of Earth must have slammed into Uranus between 3 to 4 billion years ago….

Big Bang. Dinosaurs walked the earth before humans did. A big cloud of gas and dust floated out in the universe before earth. Before the universe … well, before that is a point that physicists spill a lot of ink…

Dwarf planet called Goblin. A strange little planet with a colorful name is giving astronomers new evidence in the hunt for Planet X. The Goblin is a newly confirmed dwarf planet that travels to the fringes of the solar system….

A universe inside every black hole. Most experts agree that the universe started as an infinitely hot and dense point called a singularity. Wait a minute. Isn’t that what people call black holes? It is, in fact, and some physicists say they…

Bizarre things in space. Space is big. Really big. It’s so big, in fact, that you’d actually be forgiven for believing that pretty much all of it is completely empty — hence the name. It’s true that, according to science,…