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 (...)

O mistério da energia negra

Os próximos dez anos serão decisivos para o conhecimento desta força que acelera (...)

Foundations of Big Bang Cosmology

The Big Bang model of cosmology rests on two key ideas that date back to the ear (...)

Top 10 Amazing Chemical Reactions

Chemical reactions are part of our daily lives. From cooking in the kitchen, to (...)

Outer Space Exposure

In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwitt (...)

Time Machine: CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Never heard of "traversable wormholes?" Well, soon you might start hearing abou (...)

Ten things you don't know about the Milky Way Galaxy

So you've lived here all your life - in fact, everyone has - but what do you rea (...)

Rarely Seen Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities

These photos deserve a wide viewing audience: the amount of thought and engineer (...)

How to Think

When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teachin (...)

Earth's Final Sunset Predicted

A new calculation predicts that Earth will be swallowed up by the sun in 7.6 bil (...)

The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was

It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for Universi (...)

Um sistema planetário semelhante ao nosso?

A 5000 anos-luz de nós, há uma estrela com metade da massa do nosso Sol e com do (...)

Descoberta galáxia mais distante do Universo

Imagens detalhadas obtidas pelos telescópios espaciais Hubble e Spitzer da NASA (...)

Surprises from Mercury

After a journey of more than 2 billion miles and three and a half years, NASA's (...)

Cientistas deitam por terra alguns mitos muito populares

Beber oito copos de água diários pode não ser tão saudável como se pensa, a cren (...)

Saturno tem anel de energia igual à Terra

Imagens de Saturno obtidas pela sonda espacial Cassini, que orbita ao redor daqu (...)

Robô Opportunity já percorreu dez quilómetros

O robô explorador "Opportunity" completou, na passada terça-feira, dez quilómetr (...)