2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots and Singularity Hub is here to tell you all about it!  Thats right, its time to unveil our second annual roundup of the best robots of the year.  In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world d

With a combination of alien invasion and British invasion, a new video series provides an amusing way to learn about different aspects of astronomy and space. "Teapots from Space" was created by UK astronomers Edward Gomez, Jon Yardley and Olivia Gomez, a

His image of the Horsehead Nebula in Orion was awarded first prize in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2009 run by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The winning entry was taken over a period of 19 hours, over 14 nights, in a period of two months

The year 2009 was named as International Year of Astronomy. During this year, Hubble went overhauling and with new equipment onboard, the goods delivered by HST further helped astronomers in increasing their knowledge about the mysteries of the universe.

While the new planet, dubbed GJ 1214b, is too big to be considered Earthlike, it comes pretty close. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,194 7868,00.html?cnn=yes#ixzz0ZuT35LKC

About 550 light-years from Earth, a star like our Sun is writhing in its death throes. Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet out to Mars in our solar system. Moreover, it has begun to pulse dr

Long, long ago, some of the first dinosaurs walked the Earth. But scientists have not known with any confidence where those initial dino prints were made. Much more recently, hikers stumbled

A bizarre spiraling light show over Norway has raised speculations ranging from a Russian rocket test to an odd meteoric display. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute remains unsure of the phenomenon's origins, but astronomers have said that it does not

If you too don't agree with Kopernikus, Swiss designer Matthias Pugin has devised a unique wristwatch named "Dawn" that instead of the sun places the wearer at the center of the universe.

"Hubble has now revisited the Ultra Deep Field which we first studied 5 years ago, taking infrared images which are more sensitive than anything obtained before. We can now look even further back in time..." Dr Daniel Stark