Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System

Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network turn to a blan (...)

Martian Misinformation

On Sunday, August 27th, Mars will be far from Earth, dim and unremarkable. In sh (...)

Astronomers Say Pluto Is Not a Planet

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto (...)

Plutão gera controvérsia

A discussão sobre a manutenção de Plutão na lista de planetas está a dividir a c (...)

E = mc2 Explained

One of Einstein's great insights was to realize that matter and energy are reall (...)

Solar system to welcome three new planets

The nine planets of the solar system are about to be transformed into 12. Th (...)

Voyager 1: The Spacecraft That Could Hits New Milestone

Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 (...)

Science reveals secrets of invisibility

(CNN) -- Invisibility has long been a fantastical ability exclusively enjoyed by (...)

A Evolução

A história da evolução do universo, desde o Big Bang que ocorreu há 13.700.000.0 (...)

Os primeiros a construir casas na lua

Japão lidera a corrida mundial. Base habitada já em 2030. A Agência Espacial (...)

The Big Bang - Common Misconceptions

Recently, I've been hanging out on some message boards and realized that, just l (...)

NASA Scientists Conquer Einstein Equations with Help from Columbia Supercomputer

Powered by SGI Altix, Researchers Simulate Merger of Black Holes, Shedding Light (...)

Congelar para mais tarde curar

Criopreservar células pode ser a solução terapêutica para doenças que não têm tr (...)

The Cosmic Timeline

Astrophysicists have deduced the age of the Universe (dated from the Big Bang) t (...)

A Glimpse at the Future of Our Sun

A team of astronomers recently used Arizona's Infrared-Optical Telescope Array ( (...)

Sonda revela zona semelhante à Terra em lua de Saturno

Imagens transmitidas pela sonda Cassini revelam que a lua Titã, do planeta Satur (...)

Black hole findings yield new mysteries

(SPACE.com) -- Until recently, black holes have remained hidden beneath invisibi (...)

Earliest black holes bent the laws of physics

Black holes in the early universe may have circumvented a law of physics to grow (...)

Possible Meteorites in the Martian Hills

From its winter outpost at "Low Ridge" inside Gusev Crater, NASA's Mars Explorat (...)

Viagem pelo vasto Universo

Site deveras interessante para quem gosta de olhar para as estrelas ou pelo meno (...)

A cometary "string-of-pearls" will fly past Earth in May 2006 giving astronomers a fantastic view of a dying comet.

n 1995, Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 did something unexpected: it fell apart (...)

Venus Meets a Planet Named George

Ancient people didn't have TV or electric lights. So, when the sun went down eve (...)

An Alignment of Stars and Planets

Something remarkable is about to happen in the evening sky. Three planets and a (...)