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NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft completed its 11th high-speed trip around Jupiter and sent back amazing new pictures on April 6th. The amazing spacecraft gets relatively close to the biggest gas giant planet of our solar system and takes new photos with its JunoCam instrument roughly every 53 days, while traveling at speeds up to 130,000 mph. It can take days or sometimes weeks to receive the

Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light – a finding that could overturn one of Einstein’s fundamental laws of the universe. Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, saidthat measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than ligh

Have you ever seen a 9-gigapixel map of the Milky Way Galaxy? The jaw-dropping image contains around 84 million stars and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The original image has 24.6 gigabytes. How would I define it? COSMIC LOVE. The image below shows a breathtaking view of the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way, as seen by the VISTA telescope from the European Space Agency. With th

Romanian professional photographer Maximilian Teodorescu took this intense photo of the International Space Station (ISS) as it wandered across the surface of the Moon. But observing it a bit nearby, you could be forgiven for thinking it was the starship Enterprise. And certainly, the photo lately caught the responsiveness of non-other than George Takei who stated on his Facebook page, "My goodnes

Astronomers have found a distant galaxy without any dark matter. Yale University astronomer, Pieter van Dokkum, analysed a sprawling, old galaxy, with a few stars speeding around with no detectable influence from dark matter, according to a study published in Nature, report the Independent. Yet scientists believe this might further prove the existence of dark matter. For those of you

Last year, Kip S. Thorne collected a Nobel Prize (along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish) for his work on gravitational waves. Now, Thorne may have made a new breakthrough: a theoretical method for traveling through time. It involves black holes, a wormhole, and the stretching of space and time. The idea involves creating a wormhole whose two ends are respectively situated near Earth and t

NASA has released a batch of new images in its Hubble Messier Catalogue, giving us fresh looks at galaxies, nebulae, and more. Almost 250 years ago, French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a list of 103 major astronomical objects that could be seen from the Northern Hemisphere. After the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, astronomers began using it to take images of each object

From the middle of the complete and absolute void, in between the gravitational fields of stars, NASA has just received a response. After 37 years of being inactive, last November the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 fired up its thrusters and communicated successfully with scientists on Earth, for the first time in almost 4 entire decades. Now communication is continuing and going well. Voyager 1 was

NASA will be unable to defend our planet against a doomsday asteroid that could smash into Earth in 2135, a chilling study has revealed. Researchers found that it might be impossible to stop the space rock - which is the size of the Empire State building - from careering into Earth next century. Scientists revealed that even their most advanced technology would prove 'inadequate' for deflecting

According to researchers, gravitational waves could be the very key component to help uncover the existence of another UNIVERSE. Physicists believe that there is gravity which is escaping into extra dimensions. An extra dimension would basically create a ‘tower’ of high-frequency waves, and change the way gravitational waves stretch space. If these changes are detected by experts than we m