Our First Interstellar Visitor Is Covered in a Layer Of “Organic Sunscreen”
Further analysis of the first ever interstellar visitor to Sol system.
New Horizons Space Probe Target May Have Its Own Tiny Moonlet
NASA’s New Horizons probe has already made history several times. At launch, it was the fastest probe ever launched from Earth with a speed of more than 36,000 mph. It was also the first spacecraft to study […]
Plate tectonics on Jupiter’s moon could reveal hidden ocean – Futurity
Europan earthquakes (Europaquake?) may confirm sub-surface oceans
The mission to learn everything we always wanted to know about the Universe
The real leap came from lesser-known hardware with an awkward name: the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Unveils Secrets of Early Universe
Is this the first ever black hole?
NASA Plans to Send a Probe to Hunt for Life on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
NASA moving ahead to develop probe
NASA Discovers Planet with Smothering Stratosphere and No Water
WASP-18b. With a name like than….
China’s dark matter space probe detects tantalizing signal
China finds a hint of dark matter
72 New Galaxies with Trillions of New Alien Worlds Discovered
Hubble’s Deep Field keeps on surprising
Full Moon Sunday Kicks Off ‘Supermoon Trilogy,’ Including a Lunar Eclipse
The Dec. 3 full moon is the first of three consecutive supermoons, including a lunar eclipse. The other supermoons will happen on Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2018. You can watch Sunday’s supermoon live online […]
After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters
At present, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is 21 billion kilometers from Earth, or about 141 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. It has, in fact, moved beyond our Solar System into interstellar space. […]
A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien Life
NASA has expressed an interest in searching for alien life on one of Saturn’s moons. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner might be able to get there first. Source: A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien […]
The Floor is made of Lava – The Future of Moonbases
An underground cave on the Moon could serve as a good location for a lunar base, a project that several different groups are trying to get off the ground.
Mars Needs Cash – and other issues with colonizing the red planet
A permanent settlement on Mars would undoubtedly be a testament to our capacity to explore the galaxy. However, it might not make much practical sense. Source: All the Reasons Why Humans Shouldn’t Colonize Mars, According […]
Scientists contact Luyten’s star and hope it won’t trigger an invasion of Earth
Stephen Hawking is not happy
We’ve got 234 Problems and Aliens Might be Trying to Contact Us
101 dalmatians, 234 alien species….
Astronomers Find Star That Has Exploded Six Times – ExtremeTech
Astronomers have spotted something that shouldn’t exist–a star that acts as if it’s gone supernova at least six times. Writing in Nature, an international research team discusses the highly unusual case of iPTF14hls, first classified as […]
One of the Closest Earth-Like Planets Ever was Just Discovered
A low-mass exoplanet has been discovered in the orbit of the red dwarf star Ross 128. It’s thought to be Earth-like in terms of size and temperature. Source: We Just Discovered One of the Closest […]
NASA Plans to Develop Mars Drone at Arctic Research Base
NASA plans on testing some flying machines in the most Martian landscape on Earth. Care to guess where?
Another Universe May Have Bumped Into Ours and We Might Have Proof
The Cold Spot in the cosmic microwave background radiation has led astronomers to speculate the possibility of parallel universes.
Visualize thousands of distant worlds in the Periodic Table of Exoplanets
Take a gander at the periodic table of exo planets
Miner 2049’ers – Mining the Moon
When we’ve mined the Earth for all of the metals we can, will we look to space for more? We altready are.
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