It may seem crazy but we (human kind) need to be on the moon. With the GFC and various wars going on it might seem stark raving mad to suggest we should be spending billions on going to the moon and setting up shop, but ... Read more

In this 17 minute talk, Carolyn Porco, leader of the Imaging Team on the NASA Cassini Mission, takes us on a beautiful visual journey to the great rings of Saturn and its moons. The talk is conducted at TED, March 2007. This talk mainly focuses ... Read more

Every time a new discovery is made about the universe, it opens up a new box of unanswered questions. One of these boxes is marked dark energy/dark matter. Whenever we look up at the universe at night everything we see, that is all the protons, ... Read more

In 1938 Orson Welles scared the crap out of America when he broadcast H.G.Wells “War Of The Worlds”, sparking a mass panic of fearful proportions amongst the more superstitious and imaginative part of the American population. People were driving around in their rickety old trucks ... Read more

If you visit any one of their websites you will find the very best images for free download. Hubble images, space shuttle launches, Mars imagery. All in full resolution with absolutely no restriction. You can even use their images or video footage in your own ... Read more

In the constellation Eridanus, southwest of Orion something quite peculiar has been found. In this particular part of the universe, 6-10 billion light years away, there is a remarkable drop in the number of galaxies. Astronomers had known there was something different about this spot ... Read more

It’s not often that music and astronomy come together in one story but….. Did you know that BRIAN MAY the guitarist for the phenomenal band QUEEN, studied Astronomy back in 1974 at the Imperial College London? Well apparently he did and his thesis was titled ... Read more

These are some of the best and grandest images we could find of space and nebulas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its primary advantage as a telescope is that it sees the heavens without the distortion of the earths atmosphere. This three and a ... Read more