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How cryogenic sleep could soon bring astronauts to Mars
Cryogenic sleep is usually the stuff of science fiction, most recently featured in the award winning blockbuster Interstellar. Of course, the most epic display of cryosleep can be found in Alien, in my...
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Ocean of Magma Could Explain Io’s Strange Volcanoes
An ocean of magma could explain why Jupiter's moon Io has volcanoes in the "wrong place". This would also mean that Io has an ocean of liquid water beneath its surface and might be potentially habitable.
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Even more awesome images of Pluto released!
I know, I know, we've spoiled you with awesome photos of Pluto already, this couldn't possibly surprise you, could it? Well, I dare say NASA has done it again - this new batch of New Horizons images is...
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A rose in its own right: Nebula blossoms in deep space photo
A rosy, star-forming nebula thousands of light years away from Earth is "blossoming" in a dazzling cosmic spectacle. Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula, the Swan Nebula and the Horseshoe Nebula...
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Hurricane Joaquin will rage on, experience eyewall replacement
Hurricane Joaquin is an active tropical cyclone that severely impacted large parts of the Bahamas and is currently threatening Bermuda, although its extremities will also pass through other areas in...
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Astronomers witness an exploding star devouring a dwarf planet
It's something no human has ever seen before: as a star reaches its terminal phase, it blows up the system around it.
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Biggest space picture ever: a 46 billion megapixel view of the Milky Way
After five years of painstakingly stitching together pictures of the Milky Way, astronomers from Ruhr University Bochum have finally completed their masterpiece: the largest ever space photo. It has a...
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Scientists find two stars touching – and the consequences are… explosive!
About 160,000 light-years away, two stars are overlapping in what could be poetically described as an explosive catastrophic kiss.
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Scientists find hydrocarbon dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan
Saturn's moon Titan has some odd similarities to Earth: it has clouds, lakes and rain, except they're made of methane and ethane.
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Newly discovered star’s chemistry puzzles researchers
A team of Argentinian astronomers, peering up in the night's sky from the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba has found a new, young lithium-rich giant star that they designated KIC 9821622. And they...
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