The technique I'm about to teach you is only useful for smaller numbers. As numbers get bigger, this technique's resourcefulness vanishes. Have you ever felt the urge to calculate the squares of numbers without actually multiplying the number in a piece of paper? Well, there is in fact a simple way to do this. However, … Continue reading How to remember squares of numbers more easily →

Scientists have discovered a long known formula for Pi, one of the most important physical constants in the world of pure mathematics, lurking inside the atom of Hydrogen. The discovery was made when using Quantum Mechanics to describe the energy levels in atoms of Hydrogen. Pi, as we are well aware, is the ratio between … Continue reading Formula for Pi hidden inside an atom of Hydrogen →

The press conference was over some time ago and the headline is this: the Martian atmosphere has been stripped away by solar winds. The MAVEN spacecraft, in orbit around Mars, has identified this process of stripping, which has played a substantial role in turning Mars from a habitable planet which was warm and wet to … Continue reading Martian atmosphere stripped by solar winds →

NASA is set to announce a huge finding in the atmosphere of Mars later today. Over the past year, NASA has done 2 such key announcements and this one is set to become the third one. The announcement is scheduled to take place at 2pm EST (Eastern Standard Time), which is 7pm GMT. It will … Continue reading NASA to announce major discovery →

The Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn, has sent back some exhilarating images of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. The spacecraft successfully completed it's scheduled flyby of the small Saturnian moon on the 28th of October at 4:22 pm UTC. It flew 49 kilometers above the moon's south pole. The moon's south pole is very interesting, because … Continue reading Epic Enceladus flyby →

Brian Cox explaining something straight out of Dr. Who. Found on ScienceDump. 

Like I said earlier, the New Horizons spacecraft is continuously transmitting data back to the Earth. Recently, many new images of the dwarf planet and it's moons have been acquired. They depict the surface of the dwarf planet in exquisite detail. Apart from pictures of Pluto, Charon's surface has also been photographed and shows dissimilarity … Continue reading Pluto Update →

Halloween is a scary day without any spectacular news. This time, however, Halloween is about to get a lot scarier as there is spectacular news. A gigantic asteroid is set to pass the Earth on that day, alerting us to the dangers that continuously threaten us. An asteroid strike is no small explosion; an asteroid … Continue reading Another Asteroid →

Stars are really far away. Calculating the distances to these celestial bodies is no cup of tea. However, approximations to their distances can be made. It involves a principle which most of us observe during our lives, but one which most of us ignore. It's the awesome power of parallax. Parallax is easy to picture. Just … Continue reading The Distance to the Stars →

The Alien Megastructure. Over the past few days, the supposed Alien Megastructure around the star KIC 8462852 has caused havoc in the astronomy and astrophysical world. While this system does host something really bizarre, odds are that this new bit of weirdness has a more rational explanation than just "Aliens". The star KIC 8462852 is 1500 light years away … Continue reading A Discourse on ‘Alien Megastructures’ →