Any intelligent aliens that humans manage to contact probably won’t look much like you or me, or the squid-like creatures in the new film “Arrival.” If an extraterrestrial species becomes advanced enough to send signals Earthlings can…

It’s no secret that Ariana Grande is a fan of space and, by extension, the folks over at NASA. And it turns out that the love is reciprocal, seeing as how a group of interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center…

Interplanetary travel comes with a lot of risks that make the job of an astronaut, very dangerous. With various possibilities from leakages to critical system failures, fire hazard is certainly a threat. For safer space…

Using data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope, scientists have estimated that one in every four sun-sized stars has an Earth-like planet orbiting it. That translates to about 10 billion planets in our galaxy that could hold liquid water – which could make them…

The asteroid 2004 MN4 or Apophis 99942 will fly past Earth on the night of 13th September, 2019. The asteroid has been classified as a Near-Earth Object by NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). This is…

Solar energy is an excellent source of renewable power but the biggest caveat in harnessing it is varied weather conditions and hence, it cannot be kept going all round the clock. Converting solar energy into…

SpaceX is banking on its commercial space taxi, Crew Dragon to fly seven astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in an orbital mission to and from Earth. So far, the American aerospace company has…

Seems like Elon Musk is on a Twitter roll, again! After releasing merchandise supporting the cause of ‘Nuke Mars,’ the SpaceX CEO is considering if there can be better and more feasible alternatives to colonize…

The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations, according to a new study. We just don’t know about it because they haven’t paid us a visit in 10 million years. The study, published last month in The…

About 3 to 4 billion years ago, the Martian environment was completely different from the cold inhabitable desert it is today. At that time, the Martian environment was much warmer with a habitable atmosphere that…

DARK ENERGY is the most elusive and ubiquitous energy in the Universe. But the little knowledge scientists possess about dark energy is at risk, after a new experiment suggests dark energy is not the “fifth…

Serial entrepreneur and part-time meme enthusiast Elon Musk has once again whipped the internet commentariat into a frenzy, this time with a simple, two-word proposition on Twitter: “Nuke Mars!” The idea isn’t necessarily new, Musk has…

If humans gave birth in space, it would be very different from giving birth on Earth. First, we’d be impacted by the zero gravity environment. Long-term, human space babies could end up looking very different from Earth…

SPACE travel could one day be as easy as getting in a lift thanks to a new proposal. A team of scientists have been working on a concept called Spaceline, which is essentially a type…