NASA will accept proposals for missions to two of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus and Titan, for its New Frontiers mission. The space agency stated in a community announcement email that th [...]
Earth is overdue for an asteroid impact on par with the one that killed the dinosaurs. In an effort to keep this existential threat at bay, NASA founded a new asteroid detection program dub [...]
The rapper B.o.B. declared on Twitter last month that Earth is flat, claiming to have pictures to back up his outlandish claims. The incident provoked responses from high profile scientists [...]
A giant fire ball smashed into the Atlantic earlier this month, which was largely unreported on by the mainstream media. Similar events have gone unnoticed in the past. All this in the roun [...]
Astronaut Tim Peake published a timelapse on social media showing lightning storms on Earth, Wednesday, as filmed from the International Space Station (ISS).
The solar system may have just got a little more cramped. Scientists unveiled evidence on Wednesday of a strange new planet, five to ten times larger than Earth, on the fringes of the solar [...]
European scientists launched a colony of tiny fungi from Antarctica to the International Space Station (ISS) to see if microorganisms could survive in environmental conditions similar to Ma [...]
Newt Gingrich’s promise to build a manned moon base by 2020 was met with disbelieving stares during the last presidential election. Comparable remarks made by the European Space Agenc [...]
Ever since Newt Gingrich promised a manned moon base by 2020 during his 2012 presidential campaign, hopes for a lunar village have been met with chuckles and sneers. Nevertheless, a recent [...]
Clusters of stars on the outskirts of the galaxy may harbor extraterrestrial life, argue scientists at the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in Kissimmee, Florida. The as [...]
