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What’s It Like Actually Having Laser Eye Surgery?
There are a million reasons why being short-sighted is annoying. Here’s one – try wearing glasses and putting a pencil behind your ear. It just falls clattering to the floor, doesn’t it?
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Scientists Find a Planet Similar to Mars Outside Our Solar System
Someone call John Lithgow and pull French Stewart out of storage, a team of astronomers using the Kepler telescope have discovered the smallest of exoplanets, and tiniest solar system, so far. And...
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Earthshine: How Studying Earth Helps in the Search for Life on Other Worlds
Scientists looking at Earthshine reflected from the moon have concluded that, indeed, there is life on our planet. Though the result may be obvious, the findings can help in the search for life on...
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IBM’s £27 Million Computer For the World’s Largest Radio Telescope
When it’s built, the Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest radio telescope. Then, when it goes online, it will spit out 1,000,000 terabytes of data each day—and IBM is trying to make a...
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Earth’s Sky Will Look Mindblowingly Crazy 3.75 Billion Years From Now
Check out this video made with images created by NASA. It shows Earth’s night sky during the next four billion years, with the Milky Way on a head-on collision with Andromeda. The destruction of our...
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Heavenly Gifts for the Star Gazer
We all have that friend who seems more interested in the rest of the universe than our home planet. They’re glued to space documentaries, they’re awed by every new image from the Hubble telescope, and...
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These Tiny Telescopes Could Save the Earth from a Deep Impact
A 50-foot wide, 10,000-ton meteor that packs triple the force of the nuke dropped on Hiroshima is nothing to scoff at. But in the grand scheme of things, the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia, last...
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The World’s Largest Telescope Array Is Now Peering Into the Sky
ALMA has arrived, and she is enormous. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, was officially opened today in the high desert of the Chilean Andes. Guests including the president of...
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A Private Venture Wants to Build a Telescope on the Moon
There might not be a man on the Moon right now — but there may soon be a gazing eye. A new private venture aims to build a long-range telescope on our planet’s little satellite, and it could happen as...
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How the Gaia Telescope Will Scan the Entire Sky
When the Gaia space telescope launches next week, it’s going to attempt the biggest astronomy project of all time: it will try and scan the entire sky, capturing images of at least a billion stars in...
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Scottish Scientists Awarded Grant to Build Alien-Detecting Laser Device
A group of Scottish scientists were recently awarded a £250,000 grant to build an infrared laser device to seek out new life (i.e. small, earth-like planets that orbit stars) and new civilisations...
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