Source: Gulf News Astronomical calculations have determined accurately when it starts every year since 1993 UAE: Islamic scholars and astrophysicists in the UAE believe the Muslim world should rely on […]
Source: India The 64-gram satellite has been named after the former Indian president, and a pioneer in aeronautical science in India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. By Aishwarya Krishnan | Published: May 15, 2017 2:53 PM IST India has been a pioneer in the field of science and an 18-year-old teen, […]
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comments To me the increasing complexity of our universe, which we can barely scratch at, speaks volumes about the creativity of our Merciful and Gracious […]
Suggested Reading 2016 Nobel in Physics Shows Again: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Deism: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics […]
Source: BBC About 95% of the cosmos cannot be seen by any telescopes, because it is made of mysterious “dark matter” and “dark energy” that do not interact with […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Adriana A. Retif Science and Space Journalist Adriana Retif is a contributor at The Huffington Post, where she covers Science, Space and other issues related to […]
Source: CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN)Astronomers have found at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The findings were also announced at a news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This discovery outside of our […]
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 299792458 metres per second (approximately 3.00×108 m/s, approximately […]
Source: NY Times By Dennis Overbye Misconception: The universe started someplace. Actually: The Big Bang didn’t happen at a place; it happened at a time. “Where did the Big Bang […]
Source: BBC By Marcus Woo 20 October 2016 On a winter’s night in January 1995, rain fell on the Haute-Provence Observatory in southern France. Didier Queloz, an astronomy graduate student, […]
Source: BBC President Barack Obama says the US will work with private companies on its plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. President Obama announced his proposals for […]
Source: MSN.com (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Doina Chiacu) U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to help send people to Mars within the next 15 years, pledging to […]
Source: Time BY Marisa Gertz The winner of the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Yearwon’t be announced until September 15th, so for now, feast your eyes upon 10 of the over […]
Source: BBC By Jesse Emspak Lumps of rock flying through space could cause catastrophic damage to our planet. What could we do if we found one on a collision course? […]
Source: Huffington Post Chris D’Angelo Associate Editor, HuffPost Hawaii Mercury and the sun are set to dance Monday in a rare astronomical phenomenon you won’t want to miss. In what’s known […]
Source: CNN (CNN)If NASA had allowed it, astronaut Scott Kelly would have loved to climb out of the Soyuz capsule after landing on Tuesday and walked on his own, Kelly’s […]
Source: Time Scientists have confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves more than a century after the concept was first proposed, a dramatic discovery that could change the practice of astronomy, researchers announced Thursday. In September, laser facilities in Washington state and Louisiana both recorded the same distortion in space—measured as […]
Source: BBC Ancient, tightly packed clumps of stars found at the fringe of the Milky Way are a good bet in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (Seti), research suggests. […]
Source: Business Insider You might be inclined to think that something as complex as life should be rare, and that it probably took a very long time to come into […]
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will […]
