Old Galaxies Stick Together In A Young Universe
Can appearances be deceiving? According to the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT), galaxies that appear old in our Universe's early…
SuperWASP are Super Planet-Finding Observatories
The United Kingdom’s Wide Area Search for Planets, known as SuperWASP consists of two 8-camera robotic observatories that cover both…
NASA to Burn Sponsor Logos into the Surface of Mars
NOTE: This was the Universe Today's contribution to April Fools Day (April 1st), but it isn't all a joke... International…
What is Phoenix? It’s a Mars Mission Question on Jeopardy!
The answer was: "A NASA Mars lander has this mythic name because it was made of parts from a scrapped…
Explaining Dark Matter and Contradicting the Big Bang
It’s well-known that “Big Bang†was a derogatory name given to the cosmological theory of the expanding (not exploding) universe…
Want to Find Evidence of Life on Another Planet? Look for Cellulose
Until recently, the oldest evidence of biological material on Earth came from fragments of ancient protein found in Tyrannosaurus Rex…
Deepest Canyon on Mars: New Images from the Mars Express
This breathtaking 3D landscape was constructed with high definition images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board…
The Mysterious Case of Two Spheres Falling to Earth in Australia and Brazil
On the March 24th, a story hit the web from Brazil asking for help identifying a mysterious-looking sphere found in…
Darkness Washes Around The Globe As Earth Hour Descends
35 countries, 26 major cities, 370 towns and literally tens of millions of people... What do they all have in…
Hawaiian Man Files Lawsuit Against the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to go online in May of this year. This magnificent machine will accelerate…