Discovery Channel Video: Moon: Does it have a purpose?
Article written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If you wonder what your life would be like without the moon, the surprising answer is […]
Spiritual experiences common for astronauts
Source: Arab News By Nidhal Guessoum, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He is the author of the recently published “The […]
Potential super-Earth found orbiting the nearest star from our sun
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) In 2016, astronomers found a potentially habitable planet called Proxima b around the star Proxima Centauri, which is only 4.2 light-years from Earth. Now, researchers […]
White Supremacism and Islamic Astronomy in History of Astronomy Texts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Source: The Muslim Heritage By Joe Lockard This paper reviews manifestations of racism in European and American histories of Arab and Persian astronomy from the eighteenth century to the present […]
International Space Agencies Are Going to Smash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid
By Michelle Starr The time has come. We’re going to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The asteroid is Didymos B, the smaller of the two objects in the Didymos […]
Spiritual experiences common for astronauts
Source: Arab News By Nidhal Guessoum, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He is the author of the recently published “The Young Muslim’s Guide to Modern Science” Now that we have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human moon landing, […]
Controversial telescope to be built on sacred Hawaiian peak
Source: Associated Press By CALEB JONES HONOLULU (AP) — After years of protests and legal battles, officials have announced that a massive telescope which will allow scientists to peer into […]
Bringing the Muslims to the Same Day Eid in UK: Letting Royal Observatory in Greenwich Decide
Al Hijra, Ramadan and the Islamic calendar: Eid 2019 Source: Royal Observatory website Observations of the Moon determine the timing of the Islamic year Al Hijra and its months including […]
Newfound tiny planet may be a glimpse of Earth’s ultimate fate
Source: MSN News BY Catherine Zuckerman In 1995, a cosmic question was answered when a ground-based telescope picked up on a faint, wobbly signal coming from hundreds of light-years away. The […]
Al Wassay God and the Expanding Universe
Epigraph: وَالسَّمَاءَ بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ And the heaven We built with our own powers and indeed We go on expanding it. . (Al Quran 51:47/48) By Dr. Zia H […]
A Recent Video: The Big Bang in the Quran?
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 […]
A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here’s what we know.
Source: MSN News BY Maya Wei-Haas On Sunday, January 20, viewers across the Western Hemisphere were treated to the rusty hues of the decade’s last “blood moon” eclipse. But as people […]
How to Watch the ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ Lunar Eclipse This Weekend
Source: Time By GINA MARTINEZ In January 2019, stargazers in the U.S. and elsewhere will be treated to a lunar eclipse that some are calling the “super blood wolf moon.” A […]
Meteors: Establish the truth of the Holy Quran
Meteors: Establish the truth of the Holy Quranhttp://t.co/rFHZ1z0E88 pic.twitter.com/7QbWdLD32G — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) November 12, 2014 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim […]
Believe It or Not, Pope Gregory XIII Is In the Daily Life of Every Muslim
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In a few weeks, every one at least in the Western world, Muslim or non-Muslim, will be […]
Video: Asteroid Twice the Size of the Statue of Liberty Heading Toward Earth
Suggested reading Cataloging 750 verses of the Holy Quran inspiring believers to study nature The U.N. is forming an international asteroid defense team Meteors: Establish the truth of the Holy Quran
Japan to attempt robot landing on asteroid 186M miles away
Source: CNN By James Griffiths, CNN (CNN)Japan’s space agency will attempt to land a robotic unmanned landing craft on the surface of an asteroid 300 million-kilometers (186.4 million-miles) away from Earth […]
Parker Solar launched aims to dip directly into our star’s outer atmosphere
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft takes off on its mission to the Sun Source: BBC News US space agency Nasa has launched its mission to send a satellite closer to […]
The Longest Full ‘Blood Moon’ Of The Century Is Happening This Month
Source: Huffington Post Blood moons have inspired both awe and fear throughout the centuries. By Carol Kuruvilla AUMPHOTOGRAPHY VIA GETTY IMAGES A blood moon eclipse over a mountain in Thailand […]
Liquid water ‘lake’ revealed on Mars
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 […]
