NASA crashes Grail probes into lunar mountain
The image shows the final flight path for NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (Grail) mission spacecraft, which impacted the Moon on Dec. 17, 2012. NASA’s twin Grail probes have...
View ArticleScientists discover black holes weighing 40 billion suns
The bright spot at the center of this large elliptical galaxy is one of the biggest black holes in the universe, which scientists recently found is even bigger than previously thought. This galaxy is...
View ArticleFormer UK Minister of Defense Predicts Alien Contact by 2024 With New Telescope
A former high ranking member of the British Defense Ministry has publicly predicted that humans will make alien contact in the year 2024, the same year that a revolutionary high powered telescope is...
View ArticleMetoer shower to illuminate dark night sky
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower of 2013 is to reach its peak at the night sky of the early morning on Thursday, January 3, only for few hours. According to NASA scientists, skywatchers can expect...
View ArticleBillionaire space entrepreneur wants vegetarian-only colony on Mars
A US billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Elon Musk, has made plans to build a settlement for 80,000 people on Mars when technology makes it possible for man to live there – as long as the...
View ArticleFirst human residents to settle in Mars in 2023
The Dutch nonprofit company Mars One is planning to establish a human settlement in the Red Planet by 2023, International Business Times has reported. The company released its basic astronaut...
View ArticleSolar flare could cause a geomagnetic storm
This particular solar flare was formed on the 23rd of January, according to NASA. NASA announced this week that a solar flare occurred following a magnetic storm, which occurs when these particles...
View ArticleSolomon Islands hit by 8.0 quake and tsunami, at least 5 dead
NASA photo of Nendo, the largest of the Santa Cruz Islands An 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Wednesday. At least five people died as the disaster reportedly...
View ArticleCity Killer Asteroid Will Pass Close To Earth on February 15th
NASA is expected to announce later today that a space rock, capable of wiping out a large city will make a pass of the Earth on 15th February. The rock, some 35 yards in size will pass at a distance...
View ArticleScientists now know how fast a black hole spins
For the first time ever, scientists have been able to measure the precise spin rate of a ‘supermassive black hole’. The findings will provide some clue as to how some of the most mysterious objects in...
View ArticleNASA probe detects third radiation belt around Earth
Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. Scientists assumed that there were only two radiation rings around the Earth, but a...
View ArticleUniverse 100 million years older than previous estimates
An image of the anisotropies of the Cosmic microwave background as observed by Planck and released by the European Space Agency on March 21, 2013. A new study on the radiation leftover from the outset...
View ArticleNASA Discovers Three More Potentially Habitable Alien Worlds
The mission has discovered “two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the ‘habitable zone,’ the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an...
View ArticleMars One colonization scheme submits 78,000 applications
Some 78,000 people from 120 countries have applied for a one-way trip project of settlement in the Red Planet run by the Dutch nonprofit company Mars One. The company plans to send a few willing...
View ArticleAsteroid 9 times size of ocean liner approaches Earth
The 1998 QE2 asteroid has the physical mass to potentially deliver life on Earth a knockout punch, being 2.7km in length. It is to buzz our planet on May 31, aweing the stargazing community....
View ArticleNasa’s Voyager 1 on the verge of entering Interstellar Space
Entering the unknown: This artist’s impression shows how plasma flows around NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft as it gets close to entering interstellar space Nasa’s Voyager 1 is on the verge of becoming the...
View ArticleWorld’s largest gamma telescope to study cosmic rays from Siberia
NASA image from 21 March, 2000 shows a “direct” picture of the first four years of Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory spacecraft’s Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope(EGRET) data. A desolate site in...
View ArticleNASA shows smallest-yet imaged exoplanet
Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b weighs in with about four times Jupiter’s mass, making it the lowest-mass planet ever directly imaged around a star like the sun. Meet GJ...
View ArticleAsteroid Cruithne, quasi-satellite of Earth
Asteroid Cruithne with serial number 3753 has attracted a lot of attention of scientists recently. The asteroid moves around the sun in orbit similar to that of the Earth, and is located at a more or...
View ArticleNASA rover Curiosity finds water in Mars soil
The rover Curiosity has discovered water in fine-grained soil on the surface of Mars, NASA confirmed Thursday in a series of papers published in the journal Science. Each cubic foot of Martian soil...
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