Explore the Moon’s North Pole With This Gargantuan Photo Mosaic

Explore the Moon’s North Pole With This Gargantuan Photo Mosaic

Over the past four years the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was busy collecting photographs… 10,581 to be exact. And it was all for you! So you could explore the moon at a dazzling resolution of six feet per pixel—your tax dollars at work

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The Sensor Array That Made the Big Bang Discovery Possible

The Sensor Array That Made the Big Bang Discovery Possible

Astronomers have long sought tangible proof that the Big Bang caused the universe to violently and exponentially expand in the first few milliseconds of its existence. Now they have it , thanks in part to a radio telescope in Antarctica that recently detected primordial gravitational waves, the "smoking gun" evidence of the Big Bang. This changes everything .

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Why the Big Bang Discovery Is Even More Important Than You Think

Why the Big Bang Discovery Is Even More Important Than You Think

As you’ve probably heard, yesterday a team of scientists identified evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang , a finding which helps explain how the entire Universe originated. Amazing as that sounds, it’s way more important than you even imagine.

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Hubble celebrates 24th birthday with new picture

It’s hard to imagine that the Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit for 24 years. Hubble still offers some of the coolest images of the cosmos that we will … Continue reading

ISS thrusters fired Sunday to dodge space junk

The ISS has been orbiting the Earth for years as astronauts from multiple countries live aboard the space station and use it as a science platform. Multiple times in the … Continue reading

Herschel's Largest Survey of Cosmic Dust Is Huge and Beautiful

Herschel's Largest Survey of Cosmic Dust Is Huge and Beautiful

The largest ever census of dust in the local Universe has been carried out by the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory—and the results are huge and beautiful.

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Mercury shrinking NASA confirms: 4.3 miles in 4bn years

Mercury is shrinking, its radius reduced as much as 4.3 miles over the past four billion years, scientists have confirmed, with the planet contracting as its iron core cools. The … Continue reading

Big Bang breakthrough as Cosmic contractions spotted

A “spectacular” discovery that could explain the Big Bang that created the universe and potentially lead to Nobel prizes for the researchers behind it is prompting excitement in the scientific … Continue reading

Astronomers Discover First Direct Proof of the Big Bang Expansion

Astronomers Discover First Direct Proof of the Big Bang Expansion

Somebody’s going to win a Nobel Prize. At least that’s what the physics community is saying after the announcement on Monday that a Harvard team has found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang . It’s more proof that the Big Bang really was the beginning of it all.

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I want to work and live in these awesome spaceships

I want to work and live in these awesome spaceships

Isaac Hannaford’s does amazing concept work for games like Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, and Destiny. His designs feel really solid and so elegant. My brain can buy into them. I can imagine and believe a future like this.

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