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…
CHINA’S lunar rover has found a mysterious ‘gel-like’ substance on the far side of the Moon. The Yutu-2 rover made the discovery when it rolled over a ‘sticky’ area at the bottom of a crater…
The life of an asteroid is lonely. The rocks spend eons drifting through the cold vacuum of space. But on Wednesday, the asteroid Ryugu welcomed a special visitor: Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe successfully landed on the asteroid’s surface at 21:06 ET(01:06…
LONDON: A mission to explore intelligent alien life in the universe has recorded some mysterious signals coming from a galaxy three billion light years away, according to an Indian-origin scientist working on the ambitious project…
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has promised not to withhold any information he might learn about UFOs if he becomes president, explaining that his spouse would “demand” that he be forthcoming with the American people. Appearing…
The Trump administration wants to get back to the moon—but Beijing’s single-minded focus could outpace a NASA with competing priorities. Shortly after New Year’s Day, a boxy gold-toned spacecraft made a soft landing on a…
Oh, to have a good night’s sleep! Indeed, many of us are sleep deprived; trudging around the workplace, lumbering the kids to-and-from school, like zombies auto piloted by coffee. In fact, according to the American…
Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They’re almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years…
To find life on Mars, scientists should keep their eyes peeled for pasta. Hot-spring-loving microbes create rock formations that look like fettuccini or capellini, according to a new NASA-funded study published online April 30 in…
NASA has synthesised an “alien” form of DNA, revolutionising our understanding of what extraterrestrial life may resemble and where it exists. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) contains the genetic instructions for all known living things. And scientists…
For 17 years, astronomers at a well-known Australian radio telescope known as “The Dish” had not been able to figure out the source of a strange, vexing interference. Now they’ve solved the mystery, and the culprit was…
NASA has released a promotional video promising that the space agency will re-open their exploration of the moon. The video that was released included a fitting voice over from William Shatner, the actor who played…
We’ll be going to the moon. We’ll be going to Mars very soon.” Keeping his eyes on “the final frontier,” President Donald Trump has promised that America will be “going to Mars very soon.” According…