Elon Musk’s floating spaceport dream just took a big step closer to becoming reality, after it was revealed that two disused oil rigs recently acquired by SpaceX are set to be converted into offshore launch…
ON DECEMBER 6, a piece of an asteroid was found in the middle of the Australian desert. But this wasn’t an act of nature. It was a well-choreographed, meticulous transaction which took years of planning and…
When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash. Avi Loeb, the chair…
Last year’s mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports. On Aug. 26, 2017, astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project — a $100 million effort to…
China plans to build a scientific research station on the moon in “about 10 years,” according to the state news agency Xinhua. The China National Space Administration (CSNA) intends to build the research station in the…
Elon Musk’s new plan to have at least one million people on Mars. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on another planet? Would the sky still be blue? Would there…
The Earth may be crawling with undiscovered creatures with a biochemistry that differs from life as we know it. Life is pretty easy to recognise. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces.…
Astronomers spot an object heading into Earth orbit. Small objects such as asteroids get trapped for a time in Earth orbit, becoming “minimoons.”Minimoons are typically asteroids, but this one is something else.The new minimoon may…
There are a lot of moving parts to the Universe, as nothing exists in isolation. There are literally trillions of large masses in our Solar System, all orbiting around the galactic center on timescales of…
It’s almost certainly not an extraterrestrial telegram. But waves that seemed to come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri will help astronomers refine their search techniques. Astronomers searching for signs of life beyond Earth have…
At the end of the year, astronomers expect to see a rare cosmic phenomenon dubbed the “Christmas star” in the sky. It will be caused by the fact that Saturn and Jupiter come close to each…
Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday that members of the Space Force military service will be called guardians. “We just returned from the Oval Office and so it is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United…