The Mars One foundation will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Mars One gives you the opportunity to participate in this historic project. Views:Lars RosingI think the applicants for this, should go to the Mojave dessert and live there for a year, in a confined little motorhome and

This adorable image - in which the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 seems to be smiling at the camera - comes courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope. It was spotted by Judy Schmidt, who submitted a version of the image to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition, where anyone can

Researchers are now proposing that evidence of the origins of life may very well be hidden on the Moon, where the earliest organic traces in existence may have been preserved in lava during the satellite's fiery adolescence. Views:Christopher Dwane to state "evidence" doesn't mean proof. What they

Every 13 months, Earth and Jupiter have a close encounter.  Astronomers call it an "opposition" because Jupiter is opposite the Sun in the sky. Our solar system’s largest gas planet rises in the east at sunset, and soars overhead at midnight, shining brighter than any star in the night sky. This

A handful of impacts from rocky debris in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the core of a long dead star, could trigger a powerful explosion known as a type 1a supernova. Views:AnonymousA supernova is not merely a bigger nova. In a nova, only the star's surface explodes. In a supernova, the star's