Has Life Spread Virally Through the Universe? (A ‘Galaxy’ Most Popular)
Life originated in a nebular cloud, over 10 billion years ago, but may have had multiple origins in multiple locations, including in galaxies older than the Milky Way according...
Image of the Day: The First Stars of the Milky Way (A Weekend Feature)
The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders...
Robonaut 2 -The the First Humanoid Heads into Space: A New Era Dawns
Another vivid sign that we have entered the dawn of the age of post-biological intelligence: NASA and General Motors announced on Tuesday that they...
Lakes of the Sahara Desert from International Space Station (ISS)
Ounianga Lakes in the Sahara Desert, in the nation of Chad are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 21 crew member on the International Space...
The Lazarus Project: Scientists Reconstruct the Genome of an Extinct Human
Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have become the first to reconstruct the first ancient human genome of a male who lived in Greenland 4,000 years ago and...

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