For those of you tired of looking at pictures from Mars that appear to be skulls, levitating rocks or animals, here’s a story with a new twist. An audio clip posted on YouTube from a…
Researchers working at CERN in Switzerland have detected a never-before-seen subatomic process that was “harder to find than the famous Higgs particle”, and it could make or break our understanding of the Universe. By combining…
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said last night, in a television show dedicated to the International Space Station (ISS), that in 50 years people will live on the Moon and we will be on our way…
THE SPACE AGENCY IS OFFERING $15,000 IN PRIZE MONEY FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THE MYRIAD CHALLENGES FACING MARS COLONIZATION. Mars has been the next frontier for humans since astronauts first bounced around the moon in…
NASA has been baffled by what could cause of two large ‘bright spots’ in a crater on its 580-mile wide surface since they were first pictured by the US space agency’s Dawn probe February from…
A COLOSSAL asteroid hurtling through space is feared to be one of the biggest EVER to threaten a collision with Earth. The gigantic missile thought to measure almost a mile across will brush closer than…
Scientists reveal the Milky Way’s position in an enormous supercluster of galaxies after 10-year quest into unknown Huge supercluster stretches 500 million light years across and has the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns Incredible road…
What’s it like to be the most isolated human in all eternity? Our space correspondent meets Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15, who holds that dubious honour. Seven men in the history of…
A ring-like filament of stars wrapping around the Milky Way may actually belong to the galaxy itself, rippling above and below the relatively flat galactic plane. If so, that would expand the size of the…
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won’t look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It’s likely they won’t be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in…
What are those things? For the past eight years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a series of strange radio signals emanating from somewhere in the cosmos. And now, the mystery has deepened. A…
What is it about unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial visitors that holds such allure? Surveys consistently show that about a third of all Americans think alien spaceships are real — and that as much as…
A successful ground test of a system designed to ultimately collect solar power from orbit and beam it back down to Earth was announced in Japan this week by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The wireless power…