Stephen Hawking Says Humanity May Have Less Than 600 Years to Leave Earth or Face Extinction
If humanity doesn’t become a truly spacefaring species in the next five centuries or so, we may well go extinct, Stephen Hawking said, according to media reports. During a video presentation Sunday (Nov. 5) at the Tencent Web Summit in Beijing, the famed cosmologist warned that the ever-rising human population, and its mounting energy needs, could render Earth uninhabitable by … Continue reading
Planet with Similar Temperature to Earth Discovered Nearby – Could Host Life
Astronomers have discovered a world 11 light-years away that may have a surface temperature similar to Earth’s. The planet, Ross 128 b, is Earth-sized and is now the second-closest to Earth in temperature. The closest is Proxima b, located around Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light-years from Earth. Both planets orbit red dwarf stars, but what makes this new one somewhat more … Continue reading
New Findings on Our ‘Freakish’ Galaxy Has Cosmologists Seriously Worried
In the grand club of galaxies, the Milky Way is increasingly looking like an outlier. This is a looming challenge for cosmology It has long been assumed that our galaxy is a classic example of many of the galaxies that pepper the cosmos. That’s important, because astronomers have intensely studied the Milky Way and, with this assumption, can use what … Continue reading
Massive Mystery Object Discovered at Milky Way Center –“Failed Star or Unknown Planet?”
Astronomer observe a gigantic mysterious world 4,000 times more massive than the Earth 22,000 light years away. via DailyGalaxy: Astronomers have used the light-warping effects of gravity to spot a massive object OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb using NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, 13 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits a star about 22,000 light years away. This new discovery of an absolutely … Continue reading
Interstellar Ice Delivered via Meteorite Strikes May Provide the Answer to Birth of DNA
Researchers at the University of York have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted into the building blocks of DNA. They found that organic compounds, called amino nitriles, the molecular precursors to amino acids, were able to use molecules present in interstellar ice to trigger the formation of the backbone molecule, 2-deoxy-D-ribose, of DNA. … Continue reading
Potential ‘Missing Link’ Chemical that Led to Life on Earth Found by Scientist
Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a compound that may have been a crucial factor in the origins of life on Earth. Origins-of-life researchers have hypothesized that a chemical reaction called phosphorylation may have been crucial for the assembly of three key ingredients in early life forms: short strands of nucleotides to store genetic information, short chains … Continue reading
Ocean on Saturn’s Moon ‘Enceladus’ Could Have ‘Evolved Life’
Enceladus is looking like an increasingly good place to search for life. Scientists now believe that the ocean of Enceladus has been around long enough for life to have evolved there. Of all the discoveries made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its 13 years in orbit around Saturn, those concerning the gas giant’s enigmatic moon Enceladus are perhaps the most … Continue reading
NASA Has 4 Possible Plan of Actions to Save Us from Earth-Bound Asteroids
Hollywood movies have long dramatised the threat of Earth being wiped out in by an asteroid discovered at the 11th hour, only for disaster to be averted by all-American heroes such as Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck or a gristly Robert Duvall. As NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office uses the asteroid “2012 TC4” to test its ability to respond to the … Continue reading
Scientist Say the Universe Should Not Exist Based on the Bizarre Behaviour of Anti-Matter
We don’t know why the universe isn’t destroying itself Our universe shouldn’t exist, scientists say. The most elite scientists in the world are still struggling to find why exactly our universe didn’t destroy itself as soon as it came into existence. That’s what science says should have happened – but it clearly hasn’t, since you’re here reading this, as far … Continue reading
Astronomer Make Astonishing Discovery of ‘Monster’ Planet Orbiting Tiny Star
A huge “monster” planet that’s far too big for its sun could lead scientists to rethink their theories of astronomy. The planet, known as NGTS-1b, is the size of Jupiter. But orbits around a red dwarf star that’s only half the size of its sun. Scientists not only didn’t predict that such a massive planet would be able to orbit … Continue reading
