“Evening in Space”: May We All One Day Be So Wonderfully Weird
Where would psychedelic fashion be without Sun Ra or Ziggy Stardust? Both of them are present here like Yoda’s apparition, haunting and approving of the maven Daphne Guinness’ move into extraterrestrial pop stardom.
Think We’re Advanced? Let’s Use a Cosmic Yardstick
The more you think about it, on a cosmic level, the more you realize our species are just fledglings starting out on the shores of a cosmic ocean.
Our Universe May Have Emerged from a 4-Dimensional Black Hole
No, really, that’s probably the best way we could put it without confusing our readers further. According to a team of physicists, this hypothesis checks out with what we know about the universe and current mathematical models.
The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen
Julian Melchiorri, a student at the Royal College of Art, has invented an artificial photosynthetic leaf after pondering interstellar travel. The future inches closer.
The Most Accurate Model Yet Of Jupiter’s Bizarre Magnetic Field
Take a look at Jupiter’s massive magnetosphere that resembles something from a Lovecraftian space horror, extending 4 million miles from the gas giant’s surface.
Seeing Earth As An Exoplanet: What Signs Of Life Are Visible?
An extraterrestrial spacecraft lurking in a satellite’s orbit near Earth would be able to see city lights and pollution in our atmosphere. But what if it searched for signs of life on Earth from afar?
30 Years Later, NASA Probe Brought Back to Life
NASA’s Sun-Earth Explorer 3 is back online thanks to the efforts of a private team’s crowdfunding campaign.
Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 16 Light Years Away
Astronomers have just discovered a potentially habitable “Super-Earth,” just 16 light years away, orbiting around the dwarf star Gliese 832.potentially-habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 832.
Mystery object in lake on Saturn’s moon Titan intrigues scientists
Scientists are investigating a mystery object that appeared for a moment and then vanished again from a giant lake on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
Soar Through A Swarm of Every Exoplanet Discovered To Date
Tom Hands, a second-year PhD Student in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at the University of Leicester, created this visualization of known exoplanets with data from the Open Exoplanet Catalogue.