Tag Archives: earth

Pope Francis, speaking at the Vatican, announce his belief in the Big Bang (I could hear the capitol letters in his voice) and evolution.

The average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 238,555 miles. Enough to theoretically fit every planet in our solar system in end to end, with about 4,990 miles to spare.

Once in a while an article will catch our attention and force us to think, this article from Gizmodo is such an article, how would gravity be different if the world were a cube?

Say hello to Kepler-78b AKA Earth's evil twin. Kepler-78b is the first Earth-sized planet discovered outside our solar system with a rocky type composition...but it's quite different from our planet.

There are some places on Earth that just leave you breathless after seeing them. When captured by a great photographer, these places can come to life for those of us who don't have the means to visit them ourselves.

Size is really a hard concept to grasp unless you have an object of known size to compare it with. This shot of the Pacific Ocean from space illustrates just how entirely massive this body of water is. Don't make a "Yo momma so fat..." joke, Andrew. Don't do it!

Astronomers have an exciting announcement -- a planet about 600 light years away has been discovered in a "habitable zone", which means it could potentially support life. The planet has a 260-day orbit, which puts it right in the middle of the "habitable zone" around a distant star.

Chilean astronomers have announced the discovery of 16 new "Super Earths", making scientists hopeful that we could make contact with extraterrestrial life in the next 15 years.

Scientists have found rare, "life-creating" chemicals on deep space meteorites -- which lends new evidence to how humans may have come to be.

A new dinosaur found in New Mexico may help to bridge the 200 million year gap that we have in attempting to understand and identify dinosaurs.