Update: 1/17/19 – The plant has died. China successfully sprouted the first plant on the moon on January 7th, but shortly after the plant had died. Days…
Paul M. Kuin, UCL Something highly unusual was picked up by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on June 16, 2018. The discovery of a…
What Was the Glowing Object that Burst in the Sky this Summer? Well a team of scientists led by Northwestern University believe that they are getting closer…
An adolescent star in the midst of a dramatic growth phase has been observed with the help of two NASA space telescopes. The youngster belongs to a class…
Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for his excellent research as an astrophysicist, publishing several works on both science and spirituality. While he openly claims to be agnostic,…
For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the…
Flat-Earther’s are the internet gift that keeps on giving. Not only do they keep upgrading their theories, presumably in an attempt to make themselves even less credible…
Mars is quite possibly the quintessential alien planet. It’s about as far removed from what we earthlings know to be reality. The planet itself is a waterless,…
David Blair, University of Western Australia Four new detections of gravitational waves have been announced at the Gravitational Waves Physics and Astronomy Workshop, at the University of…
Kathryn Harriss, University of Kent NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu – which may be on collision course with the Earth – after…
Andrew Blain, University of Leicester Active galaxies are some of the most luminous and impressive objects in the sky. They tend to be massive, distant and emit…
At 2.53 pm EST, on Monday (November 26, 2018), NASA’s InSight probe successfully landed on the surface of Mars. InSight landed on an area of Mars called…
Bob Myhill, University of Bristol It’s notoriously hard to land on Mars, yet NASA managed just that with its recent InSight lander. From childhood, I’ve loved watching…
We’ve taken giant leaps and left our mark in the heavens. Now we’re building the next chapter, returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go…
Why have humans never been to Mars? Pretty much everyone who works in the field agrees that we humans have had the technology to get there for…
Scientists have discovered a remarkably hot, remarkably large area of rock beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet. The area that scientists are calling a hot spot, is thought…
Weirdly enough; yes, there kinda/sorta is. Obviously, this isn’t a real, flesh and blood dolphin. That would be psychedelic nightmare-fuel and not the kind of fodder for…
Now, I’m not saying these lost continents were once roamed by giants and aliens or giant-alien hybrids (because they weren’t), but this is still very cool. Antarctica…
Images captured by the ESO (European Southern Observatory) show a series of orbital positions of a planet around a star 63 light-years from Earth. This is the…
Flat-Eathers aren’t famous for their intelligence or articulation, but even by their standards, a post by Flat-Earth Society member, Varuag, is pushing it. In a long, barely…
In 1961, Polish astronomer, Kazimierz Kordylewski, thought he saw hints of a faint dust cloud in a region about an equal distance from Earth as The Moon.…
We’ve known for a while now that Low Earth orbit is getting cluttered. Unsurprisingly, this isn’t a good thing. According to the US Department of Defence, there…
The US Air Force secret space plane known as X-37B has reached it’s 400th day in orbit. It’s now on it’s fifth mission and is testing new…
Like something straight out of science fiction, or an episode of the Simpsons, China is building an artificial moon to replace traditional street lighting technologies. Last week,…
For the first time ever, humans have witnessed the formation of something known as a neutron star binary. The team of astronomers from the California Institute of…
On Thursday (10/11/18), a Russian spacecraft, the Soyuz MS-10, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrone, Kazakhstan with the intention of bringing NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey…
A report released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, thinks that “NASA should expand it’s search for life in the universe and make astrobiology…
Today, a UN special report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to asses the impact of climate change. Specifically, issues with global warming…
The voyager probes, launched in 1977, have already travelled nearly 17.7 billon kilometers (or 11 billion miles) into our solar system. NASA project scientists believe that it’s…
Allison E. McDonald, Wilfrid Laurier University The movie Venom, the latest thriller in Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise, plays to one of our deepest human fears: the loss of…
The head of Roscosmos, Dimitry Rogozin, has said that he believes the hole found in the ISS was not an accident and could have been drilled intentionally.…
Joel Wooten, University of South Carolina In many industries, a decade is barely enough time to cause dramatic change unless something disruptive comes along – a new…
Todd Adams, Florida State University Our world is full of light, and we depend upon it to power life on our planet. So it is appropriate to…
Announced on Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, a newly discovered body has been found in our solar system known as 2015 TG387 (nicknamed…
Panspermia – the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms…
Just last week Japan successfully landed the first rovers on an Asteroid and on day one they were sending back some stunning images. Now, the two rovers…
A new project known as the Trillion Planet Survey, is launching a search for directed intelligence in M31 (The Andromeda Galaxy). The project is being run by…
James Miller-Jones, Curtin University Just a little to the left of the leftmost part of the “W” in the constellation Cassiopeia lies a binary system of a…
On April 2nd, 2018 the Tiangong-1 space station crashed to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean. Now, the Tiangong-2 is in jeopardy of suffering the same fate.…
Roger Wang, University of Dundee Residents are struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, a record-breaking storm that has hit the US east coast and led to…
SpaceX is set to build the first human settlement on Mars, and it could arrive before the end of 2030. CEO of the company, Musk explained that…
Japan landed two rovers on an asteroid known as Ryugu on Friday, and we’re now receiving images from the mission. The first image was sent back to…
Japan sent two rovers to the surface of an asteroid and they have landed successfully which marks a significant moment in the history of our progress into…
A UK team has observed the first detection of matter falling into a supermassive black hole at a speed nearing 90,000 kilometers (56,000) miles per second, which…
We now know the reason the Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico was shut down last week and the details aren’t pretty. FBI records obtained by Reuters…
Yusaku Maezawa, the world’s first private lunar passenger, wants to share the experience with all of humanity in a truly unique way; through they eyes and ears…
Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University and Gareth Dorrian, Nottingham Trent University Hopes of colonising Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet, making…
A UK Satellite has performed the first test of a net designed to capture space debris, and the footage was captured in orbit. In this video, you…
A new long-term study using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn’s northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude…
At a Monday evening press conference held at the SpaceX Los Angeles headquarters, Elon Musk announced who will be the world’s first ever lunar passenger. Not only…