This 25-Year-Old Moroccan Helped in NASA's Craziest Ever Planet Discovery

The dingy classroom at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech reminds me that there was a time when astronomers charted the skies with little more than math and passion. Sophisticated computer models have been developed to catalog pulsars and probe dark matter, but here in Morocco, in a dark room devoid of high-tech gadgetry, Khalid Barkaoui, […]

‘Politicians draw borders, but you can’t see them from space’: NASA's astronaut Wheelock to RT

Russia and the US should work together to benefit humanity, American astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock has said, noting that all human differences are forgotten when both nations work in the spirit of collaboration and respect for diversity. Humans as species remain fragile creatures whose existence is often decided by the policy makers on Earth. But […]