Weird Radiation ring Around a Dead Star

Using the Spitzer Telescope NASA discovered a weird ring of material that circled around the magnetic debris of an exploded star. The body of this dead star named "SGR 1900+14' is a magnetar. Magnetars are the cores of huge stars that exploded like others in a supernova but after death they are s ...

Phoenix is in the far north of Mars

Good news from NASA: it seems that Phoenix, the space ship sent to help research various aspects from Mars has reached its destination and landed safely. The landing itself is a big success since from the 13 spacecrafts that attempted landing on Mars before, only 5 have succeeded. Now Phoenix is ...

Chances to be hit by asteroids greater than expected

Until recently it was thought that the chances for big space rocks to hit Earth are about one at a million, but a recent study lead by a Columbia University geophysicist named Dallas Abbott indicates that those odds may not be correct. Geologists have considered that cannot be calculate the numbe ...

New research on black holes shakes Einstein's theories

In his theory of relativity, Einstein claims that the black holes are so powerful so they can bend space and time, and they've condensed so much matter and energy into a single point that they could suck in forever anything nearby, including light. The problem with this idea it comes against the qua ...

Will Phoenix Mars Lander Survive the Landing?

Last week we announced you that the small spacecraft called the Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to land on Mars this month, 25 May. More news about the mission is being revealed just as we spoke and one of the new things we found is that there are a number of rovers and spacecrafts that were sent b ...

Private space station has completed 10.000 trips around Earth

Genesis 1 spaceship was launched on July 12, 2006 with the purpose of being tested and has completed a few days ago its 10.000th trip around the Earth. Genesis 1 was built by Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, a firm that has already sent a second spaceship on June 2007: Genesis 2, which is also fun ...

Phoenix will land on Mars on May 25

The Phoenix Mars Lander, also called Phoenix, is a robotic spacecraft launched on a space exploration mission to Mars on August 7, 2007. According to recent NASA's news it seems that the 6-million spacecraft is on course and is set for landing on May 25. Phoenix is equipped with a robotic arm ...

Close to zero chances to meet smart aliens

Bad news for those who were hoping to have a extraterrestrial encounter during their lifetime. According to a recent study of the University of East England, there is little chance for intelligent extraterrestrial beings to exist, or even to evolve fast enough for a "human-alien" encounter. The ...

The biggest telescope lens

The mirror is built from many polished and assembled pieces. Made from 7 beryllium segments, as dimension is 7 times larger than Hubble's mirror, and has 25 a square meters area. This way of building a mirror so large, has been approach because if being built on Earth, it doesn't fit into a sp ...