Gliese 581d is a potentially habitable planet just 20 light-years away. In 20 years we could know if it delivers on that potential. DarinK/deviantART/CC License Exactly four centuries ago this year, Galileo sent a letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany to implore the powers-that-be of the time …
That'll learn those asteroids to crash into our planet. If an asteroid was shooting towards Earth, what would our options be? Sure, we could send up a ragtag team of miners to drill into the asteroid, plant a nuke and blast it to smithereens. But if NASA has …
The quantity of organic molecules discovered on Mars is not entirely explained by the hypothesis of cosmic dust: here is a new study. Asteroids and comets may have played a more important role than what was thought to supply Mars with organic molecules (the basics of life). So far, astronomers believed …
A greasy and sticky substance emitted by the processes of stellar fusion permeates the space between one solar system and another: a study has tried to understand how much there is. The Space out there is dark and cold, it smells like burnt and - now we can …
IN BRIEF The Facts:In 2002, Gary McKinnon hacked the Pentagon and Department of Defence in the largest publicly disclosed military computer hack of all time. He discovered strange 'off world' findings that hint the existence of a space force before Trump. Reflect On:Do we really live in …
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to land the world's hottest high-five as it orbits the sun, zooming ever closer to our solar system's star. This image was taken on Nov. 8, 2018, at 1:12 a.m. EST, and comes from the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR (Wide-Field …
Japanese space agency's mission aims to uncover how moons of Mars formed The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission to visit the two moons of Mars and return a rock sample to Earth. It’s a plan to uncover both the mystery of the …
In comments that will likely fuel ardent Ufologists worldwide, a senior NASA official has conceded that the existence of alien life is “much more likely to be out there than we thought before.” Thomas Zurbuchen, an astrophysicist and associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told Boston University he …
Featured Image: Avi Loeb poses in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, Mass. His theory about an alien spaceship has made the rounds in the media and caused controversy in the academic community. (Adam Glanzman/For The Washington Post) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Before he started the whole …
In a discovery, scientists from India have discovered a sub-Saturn exoplanet which orbits around the Sun-like star, and it is around 600 light years away. The newly discovered exoplanet has been named as EPIC 2119452201b or K2-236b. The size of the planet is said to be …
As reported by DiGregorio of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in an abstract , the results of his new analysis also contradict the reading by NASA mission scientists, according to the metal-colored and tubular microstructures in the stone called "Haroldswick" Gale Crater, …
With the world’s largest radio dish probing ever deeper into space in search of extraterrestrial evidence, we must ask ourselves – is Earth prepared for a time when science fiction becomes fact? The Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (Fast) in Pingtang, Guizhou province is the …
A telescope in Canada detects repeating bursts of Radio waves (emanating beyond our galaxy) for the first time since 2007. Astronomers identified mysterious repeating energy bursts from deep space in the summer of 2018. Researchers analyzed the collected data and published their report on the 9th January …
