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Like giant, cosmic chutes between the Earth and sun, magnetic portals open up ev (...)

Mars 101

Mars is a cold, dry, desert landscape of sand and rocks. Many land features on t (...)

Mercury as Never Seen Before

Yesterday, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury and photographed a broa (...)

LHC shut down until early spring

Professor Peter Higgs will have to wait at least a few additional seasons to fin (...)

Ten things you don't know about the Earth

Good advice from the 70s progressive band. Look around you. Unless you're one of (...)

How Can We See Galaxies 47 Billion Light Years Away When the Universe is Only 13 Billion Years Old?

This is my second post in the Just Science Week Challenge. This 2003 paper in (...)

Distant object found orbiting Sun backwards

An object in the icy Kuiper belt has been found orbiting the Sun backwards, comp (...)

"Tech doping"? How Speedo's LZR suit breaks swim records

Behold swimming superstar Michael Phelps in the Speedo LZR swimsuit: He resemble (...)

A Secret Tool for the U.S. Swim Team

Around the time that the swimwear company Speedo was calling on NASA scientists (...)

Language Facts

- There are more than 2,700 major languages spoken throughout the world. - Ther (...)

15 Wonderful Inventions and Discoveries by the Ancient Chinese

China was once the superpower, being a technically and scientifically advanced n (...)

Vem aí outro "Big Bang"

Se os físicos querem provar as suas teorias, têm agora a oportunidade de o fazer (...)

NASA confirma água em Marte

A NASA confirmou esta sexta-feira a existência de água em Marte, com base nas an (...)

Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light

It is possible to travel faster than light. You just wouldn't travel faster than (...)

NASA Plans To Visit The Sun

For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA ha (...)

A Handpicked Collection of the Ultimate Space Pictures

We normally see Saturn's rings the side from which the sun shines on them. This (...)

Descobertos três planetas maiores que a Terra

Investigadores europeus anunciaram hoje ter descoberto um conjunto de três "supe (...)

NASA Plans to Visit the Sun

For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA ha (...)

Phoenix Lands on Mars!

NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to (...)

Sonda Phoenix

A sonda Phoenix é uma missão não tripulada da NASA lançada em 4 de agosto de 200 (...)

Powerful Black Hole Jet Explained

While we may never know what it looks like inside a black hole, astronomers rece (...)

Timeline of the universe

Using observatories on the earth and in space, astronomers have been able to stu (...)

When galaxies collide

What happens when a smallish galaxy plows right through the center of a bigger o (...)