LONDON: Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire who is funding the USD 100 million search for aliens, is offering USD 1 million prize money to craft the best message to send to an extraterrestrial civilisation. Frank…
For the first time, a spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected glass deposits inside craters on the red planet — a possible boon in the hunt for signs of past Martian life. Researchers think that the…
Nasa may have just found the closest thing to an Earth-like planet in the Universe. The US space agency is holding a press conference tomorrow, 23 July, to reveal the latest discoveries of its exoplanet-hunting Kepler…
ABOVE IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a laser-propelled sail. Philip Lubin’s road map to interstellar travel proposes using a similar mechanism to send tiny spacecraft speeding across great distances. Credit: Adrian Mann Traveling to other star…
This week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos, even though he thinks it’s likely that such creatures would try to…
The truth is out there and Professor Stephen Hawking wants to find it. The world famous physicist called a press conference today in London, alongside Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, to announce their new £64m ($100m)…
Over the last couple of centuries, many individuals have claimed to visit other planets through astral projection or through secret, possibly alien, technology. Since the 1970s, most alien stories have been about small gray men…
Over the past decade, there has been a great deal of attention and interest directed towards Mars. Not only have robotic explorers revealed a great deal about the history of the planet; by 2030, NASA…
As the Hubble Space Telescope starts to enter old age, a new report offers one exciting vision for a space telescope that could come online by the early 2030s. Known as the High Definition Space…
NASA’s Glenn Research Center Vacuum Chamber 5 provides a testing environment for Glenn’s advanced Solar Electric Propulsion technology needed for future astronaut expeditions into deep space, including to Mars. When you need to test hardware…
A former NASA astronaut who has walked on the moon has said aliens are not only real but have visited Earth several times. Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of several UFO visits during…
Researchers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope have taken the most detailed picture of the Medusa nebula ever, which also shows what will happen to the Sun when it inevitably dies.…
Some serious health risks appear for astronauts living on a lunar base or going on deep space missions. Many threaten the astronauts’ lives, and at least one may jeopardize all deep space missions for the…