Views from Space

Last weekend, China celebrated its sixth “National Space Day” in Nanjing, an event that highlights advances China has made in space. Similar to Space Day that is held each year on the first Thursday in…

THE oldest pyramids on Earth are hidden away under the deep cold snow of Antarctica, conspiracy theorists have shockingly claimed on the History Channel. Ancient alien theorists who are certain secret pyramids are concealed all around the…

The Lyrids are an Earth Day meteor shower, peaking on the morning of April 22. Also, try the next morning, April 23. The moon is waxing – staying out longer after dark each night –…

“Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.” -Robert Brault One of the most remarkable discoveries of the 20th Century came from studying the great spiral nebulae…

A flight zone has been selected for the helicopter to deploy Ingenuity, NASA’s miniature Mars helicopter, is nearly ready to make history with the first powered flight on another planet. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Friday that…

The story begins in 1954, three years before mankind launched its first artificial satellite, the Soviet Sputnik 1. On May 14, 1954, several newspapers published articles centered on a statement belonging to retired Major D.…

Cryptocurrency mining, or verifying cryptocurrency transactions on blockchain, requires a large amount of computing power. As the cryptocurrency craze attracts more people to join the miner community, high-speed computing chips are in short supply elsewhere.…

During his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, Wolf Cukier landed a two-month internship with NASA. So during the summer of 2019, he traveled down to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…

Elon Musk’s floating spaceport dream just took a big step closer to becoming reality, after it was revealed that two disused oil rigs recently acquired by SpaceX are set to be converted into offshore launch…

ON DECEMBER 6, a piece of an asteroid was found in the middle of the Australian desert. But this wasn’t an act of nature. It was a well-choreographed, meticulous transaction which took years of planning and…

China plans to build a scientific research station on the moon in “about 10 years,” according to the state news agency Xinhua. The China National Space Administration (CSNA) intends to build the research station in the…

Elon Musk’s new plan to have at least one million people on Mars. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on another planet? Would the sky still be blue? Would there…

A bizarre-sounding plan to save Earth funded by tech guru Bill Gates is “quietly” moving forward. POLL: Will you be spending Christmas with your family or social distancing? The plan — to dim the sun’s…