Views from Space

Musk envisions fleets of 1,000 Starships departing for Mars every 26 months. Surprise, surprise: Elon Musk is thinking big. SpaceX’s billionaire founder and CEO outlined some ambitious goals for the company’s Starship Mars-colonization system during a flurry of Twitter…

People worldwide are already reporting unidentified lights in the sky as Starlink gets off the ground. It could be just the beginning. Last year saw a big increase in a certain kind of UFO spotting,…

The people of Earth weren’t the only ones ringing in the year 2020 at midnight. Six explorers in orbit celebrated the new year’s arrival – and indeed, a new decade – aboard the International Space…

Fluff surrounds the solid interiors of each of the three planets in the Kepler 51 star system. Each of these planets was discovered to have masses “only a few times larger than Earth’s” with radii…

The oft-delayed space observatory will be worth the wait. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of “Your Place in the Universe.” Sutter contributed this article…

In several photographs of the Moon and Mars it is possible to see buildings of various types including the pyramids. But a question arises: has an alien race built buildings, pyramids and underground bases in the…

A UFO hunter who scours images of space looking for evidence of aliens says he has found a “pyramid-like structure” on the surface of the moon. So-called UFO anomaly hunter Mark Sawalha says he found the pyramid…

(Image credit: Science Photo Library/Getty) In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, around 13.7 billion years ago, the universe formed. We still don’t know the exact conditions under which this happened, and whether there was a…

NASA’S six Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 have been at the heart of hoax claims and conspiracy theories for decades. Here are six photos disproving any claims of Moon landing forgery. NASA landed the first…

The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long. Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on…

An asteroid as big as the Egyptian pyramids is zooming towards Earth and will squeeze past us on Friday – if it doesn’t smash on to our home planet’s surface. Named 2019 WR3, NASA expects the space…

Long before playlists were a thing, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 chose their favorite tunes to listen to on the space flight and for their historic moon walk. As the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong,…

It turns out that NASA’s big announcement involving Robert Downey Jr., the Rolling Stones, Mars, and the Rose Bowl is about — epic drum roll ’cause this news is going to be huge — a…