Earth & Universe

Aspen, Colorado will be running on 100% sustainable energy after 2015, an 84% increase from 2014. Aspen, Colorado, the gentle and chilly tourist hub renowned for its ski slopes, is now the third city in the United States to consider itself fully powered by renewable...

Mystery shrouds the giant stone statues that find themselves scattered around Easter Island. As it turns out, they’re even more impressive, and mysterious, than they first appear when you see them. Scientists have discovered that the heads actually have bodies that extend deep underground. The...

Using a high-altitude weather balloon, a group of students at Stanford University, sent a GoPro into space to gather data for an aerospace engineering dissertation. The launch took place about 32.2 km from the Grand Canyon, back in June 2013 and the GoPro reached 30 km in altitude during...

Dear Moon, don’t let Earth attraction destroy you. The daily cycle of ocean tides on Earth is a known consequence of the gravitational pull exerted by the moon as it orbits the planet. But apparently, the force that keep the Moon where it is now...

Here we bring you ten incredible images that will leave you amazed both by their beauty and mystery. These images are worth a thousand words, so sit back and enjoy them. Which one of the images is your favorite? Would you have added a different...

Its incredible what astronomers will discover in our universe. Earlier this year, a team of scientists discovered that in the constellation Virgo are a pair of  supermassive black holes approaching each other... such a collision would send a powerful burst of gravitational waves striking through the fabric...

In mid July, humanity fulfilled one of his greatest astronomical ambitions, bringing a spacecraft to dwarf planet Pluto and study the planet directly from orbit. All of the data recorded by the spacecraft will take some time to get to Earth, but newly published...