Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Many of us tend to ponder about the universe when looking at the night sky on a clear evening. We all know the type of questions that emerge during these occasions. Interestingly enough, even ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

How old are the stars and planets that light up our universe? Age is more than just a number in the world of astrophysics; it unravels the history, evolution, and potential for life in faraway worlds.

A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Breakthrough Listen, and global institutions has used deep learning on a dataset of 820 nearby stars and found eight new signals of interest. Despite ...

Dementia is a growing concern worldwide; it is predicted that the number of people with dementia will triple in less than 30 years. This debilitating condition can have a profound impact on the ...

Imagine peering into the night sky with a powerful telescope and seeing galaxies scattered across the cosmic landscape. Some are so distant that their light has been travelling for over 13 billion ...

Many people suffer from the transition from standard (winter) time to daylight saving time (a.k.a. summer time in Europe). If we elect to give up on changing the time twice a year altogether, what ...

For millennia, human beings stared up at the night sky and were held in awe by the Moon. To many ancient cultures, it represented a deity, and its cycles were accorded divine significance. By the time ...

Rogue planets, also referred to as interstellar, orphan, or nomad planets, are planets that do not orbit a star but instead roam through space on their own, orbiting the center of our galaxy. One of ...

Since its relatively humble beginnings in 1998, when it was first introduced to consumers, Wi-Fi has become a familiar name in almost every household, office building, or even coffee place. Although ...

It might be possible that astronauts in the future live and work comfortably on the moon without the need for resources to be shipped from Earth. This would be made possible by a new technology that ...