The Best Astronomy Photos of 2016
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 […]
What we would actually do to stop a ‘doomsday’ asteroid
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? […]
Mercury Is About To Cross The Sun For The First Time In A Decade
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 […]
Astronaut Scott Kelly: Mars mission is ‘doable’
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 […]
Scientists Confirm Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Waves
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 […]
Star clumps harbour ‘sweet spot’ in search for alien life
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. […]
Life on Earth may have started almost instantaneously
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 […]
Liquid water exists on Mars, boosting hopes for life there, NASA says
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 […]
If We Find Extraterrestrial Life: Christianity or Islam?
Epigraph: All praise belongs to Allah, Lord and Sustainer of all the worlds. (Al Quran 1:2) Did Jesus Die for the Sins of the Aliens As Well? But, They […]
Did Jesus Die for the Sins of the Aliens As Well? But, They Have Not Heard
Epigraph: All praise belongs to Allah, Lord and Sustainer of all the worlds. (Al Quran 1:2) Vatican Scientist Thinks Aliens May Exist — But Not An Alien Jesus Source: Huffington […]
Video: Hawking, Russian Billionaire in $100 Million Hunt for Aliens
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Russia calls investigation into whether US moon landings happened
Source: The Independent By Rick Noack; Thursday 18 June 2015 The increasingly tense relationship between the United States and Russia might be about to face a new challenge: a Russian […]
NASA Discovers A Super-Distant Galaxy That's 300 Trillion Times Brighter Than The Sun
Source: Huffington Post The Huffington Post | By David Freeman Posted: 05/22/2015 10:35 am EDT Updated: 19 minutes ago Talk about brilliant! NASA says it has discovered the brightest galaxy […]
NASA Discovers A Super-Distant Galaxy That’s 300 Trillion Times Brighter Than The Sun
Source: Huffington Post The Huffington Post | By David Freeman Posted: 05/22/2015 10:35 am EDT Updated: 19 minutes ago Talk about brilliant! NASA says it has discovered the brightest galaxy […]
NASA astronomer immortalizes Malala by naming asteroid after her
By Ben Brumfield, CNN Updated 7:17 AM ET, Sun April 12, 2015 (CNN) Malala Yousafzai’s stellar career has included a Nobel Peace Prize. Last week, she made it into outer […]
Scientist: ‘Try to contact aliens’
By Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent, BBC News Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Alien hunters: An array of hope Alien hunters: What if ET ever phones our home? […]
Expanding Universe: Nobel Prize 2011 and the Holy Quran
Epigraph: And the heaven We built with our own powers and indeed We go on expanding it. . (Al Quran 51:48) Source / Courtesy: CNN and Muslim Sunrise October 2011. Scientists […]
The Quran and Extraterrestrial Life
The following is a chapter of a book, Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth: The vision of the universe that the Quran presents is poles apart from the one held by […]
Comet landing: Organic molecules detected by Philae
The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed. Carbon-containing “organics” are the basis of life on Earth and may give clues to […]
1,000 times stronger than Chelyabinsk meteorite: New asteroid may threaten Earth
Russia Today: Moscow University’s robotic telescope has discovered a massive asteroid that could potentially hit Earth in the future. If such a collision happens, the explosion would be 1,000 more powerful the Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion in 2013. An automatic telescope installed in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, near the city of Kislovodsk, […]