Galaxies come in three main shapes -- elliptical, spiral (such as the Milky Way) and irregular. They can be massive or small. To add to this mix, galaxies can also be blue or red. Blue galaxies are still actively forming stars. Red on...
Astrophysicist Paul Davies at Arizona State University suggests that advanced technology might not even be made of matter. That it might have no fixed size or shape; have no well-defined boundaries. Is dynamical on all scales of space...
If you had to pick the most famous number in the world, you would probably go for pi, right? But why? Despite being crucial to our understanding of circles, it's not a particularly easy number to work with, because it's literally impo...
For centuries, modern science has been shrinking the gap between humans and the rest of the universe, from Isaac Newton showing that one set of laws applies equally to falling apples and orbiting moons to Carl Sagan intoning that “we ...
On April 14, 1954, Albert Einstein gave the last lecture of his life. Speaking to physics students at Princeton University, he remarked that although quantum mechanics works, “it is difficult to believe that this description is comple...
Scientists have discovered a fundamentally new state of matter: 3D quantum liquid crystals. These have the potential to advance microchip technology and quantum computing.
3D Quantum Liquid Crystals
Caltech phy...
Three Earth-like exoplanets have been found orbiting a tiny star 40 light years away, scientists have revealed.
In what is being called a 'world first discovery' due to the atmospheres of these exoplanets being within the reac...
Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be indisti...
A recent research in physics has become a widely discussed topic in the scientific community. Howard Wiseman of Griffith University in Australia led a team that has developed a new, groundbreaking theory.
The theory suggests tha...
For years, scientists have been baffled by a weird anomaly far away in space: a mysterious “Cold Spot” about 1.8...
It is too early to unequivocally attribute these purported signals to the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations,' a group of scientists looking for aliens have warned – but the signals are encouraging.
Scientists have hea...
NASA space probes have detected a massive, human-made 'barrier' surrounding Earth, and tests have confirmed that it's actually having an effect on space weather far beyond our planet's atmosphere.
That means we're not just chang...
What is time and why does time flow? Is it just an illusion? Answering these questions is still one of physics’ greatest challenges
“Time is what prevents everything happening at once.” Physicist John Wheeler’s statement is as f...
Ever wanted to be in more than one place at a time? That’s right, I’m talking about the super-human abilities that can be gained by those who follow the protocol for what’s known as sun-gazing, a valid practice recently confirmed by N...
Arthur C. Clarke is famous for having claimed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Indeed, if a time traveler had snatched you from the past and taken you to the present, modern technology like ...
According to astronomer Nahum Arav, an astrophysics research professor at the University of Colorado, science is opening the way to a new form of human spirituality. Based on a sense of evolutionary connectedness to a changing and gro...
Since ancient times, people have watched the moon completely blacking out the sun for a few minutes — the entire solar eclipse, as the moon's shadow moves across Earth, can take hours — as omens that indicate an impending miracle, the...
It’s a question that would almost certainly spark a debate among some people. Many will say no – how could we know the history of something when we were not there to experience it ourselves at all? Others will say yes – there’s enough...
What else can we do in the face of what scientists have discovered about reality? It’s unbelievable! Fantastic! And it is quite clearly showing that everything is energy at the most fundamental levels.
Here’s a really brief ...
They're all coming from the one place.
Back in March, scientists detected 10 powerful bursts of radio signals coming from the same location in space. And now researchers have just picked up six more of the signals seemingly eman...
Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary field, combining aspects of astronomy, biology and geology, which is focused primarily on the study of the origin, distribution and evolution of life. It comes from the Greek words astron = star, b...
Amongst the far reaches of space, there resides a mysterious alien star whose odd variations in brightness and tendency to dim inexplicably have left scientists baffled for several months.
Called the KIC 8462852, or Tabby’s Star...
While wonderful things are happening in space we usually can’t see them. People are often extremely excited about Eclipses like the one coming up on the 21st, and this is because they are extremely rare.
During a total solar ecl...
A scientist has put forward the extraordinary idea that one of the reasons we haven’t found alien life yet is because the universe is, in fact, an alien.
Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University has postured...
