An amateur astronomer accidentally recorded a rare flash on Jupiter. The...
An amateur astronomer accidentally captured video of a massive collision on Jupiter in August.A new analysis of that video reveals that the flash came from a 450-ton meteorthat hit the planet,...
View ArticleNo, the UFOs or 'unidentified aerial phenomena' in those grainy Navy videos...
A group of videos, including one published by The New York Times in 2017, shows US Navy pilots baffled by mysterious objects in the sky. The Navy this week confirmed that the footage showed real...
View ArticleA top NASA official says he 'wouldn't bet' his child's birthday present on...
The White House is pushing NASA to pull off a crewed moon landing in 2024 with its Artemis program.However, a NASA executive testified to Congress on Wednesday that he "wouldn't bet" his kid's birthday...
View ArticleMillions of people signed up to storm Area 51 today — here’s what the...
A Facebook event focused on storming the infamous Area 51 United States Air Force base started as a joke, but has since taken on a life of its own.The event, originally known as "Storm Area 51, They...
View ArticleBefore Area 51, the US' first 'UFO' controversy uncovered a top-secret...
Almost 2 million people joined a Facebook event dedicated to storming the Area 51 US Air Force Base in Nevada.Instead of a raid, about 1,500 people joined celebratory encampments near the military base...
View ArticleThe Fermi Paradox asks why we haven't found any evidence of aliens. Here are...
The Milky Way galaxy has billions of planets that could potentially host life. Yet despite scientists' efforts to monitor for and occasionally signal to extraterrestrials, we have not found any...
View ArticleVenus may have been habitable until a mysterious catastrophe 700 million...
Venus could have held Earth-like oceans and supported life in its ancient past, according to a new study — until a mysterious disaster occurred 700 million years ago.After that, researchers suggest,...
View ArticleThe first day of fall has arrived. Here's how the equinox marks the changing...
This year's fall or autumnal equinox happens Monday, September 23.Earth's rotation does not cause the fall equinox. Rather, equinoxes occur because the planet has a tilted axis.Fall comes when the...
View ArticleNASA's $30 billion Artemis missions will attempt to set up a moon base
NASA's proposed return to the moon by 2024 has been titled Artemis and will cost upwards of $20-$30 billion on top of its current budget. NASA will use its megarocket SLS to send astronauts and...
View ArticleIt's official: The second interstellar visitor ever discovered is about to...
Astronomers have detected an interstellar object approaching our solar system.Called "2I/Borisov" (formerly "C/2019 Q4" or "gb00234"), the object appears to be following a path originating from outside...
View ArticleNASA is finally planning to launch a space telescope to detect deadly...
NASA plans to launch an infrared telescope into space to detect potentially deadly near-Earth objects (NEOs). It's "a breakthrough decades in the making," one asteroid researcher said.The announcement...
View ArticleSpaceX wants to buy a small Texas neighborhood. If residents say no, a...
SpaceX is developing a Mars-capable rocket system called Starship at the southeastern tip of Texas.The company, founded by Elon Musk, built its experimental spaceport in and around a residential...
View ArticleA mesmerizing NASA animation shows how a nearby black hole would warp...
A new NASA animation shows what you'd see if you were hanging out near a black hole.The black hole's strong gravity would distort your view: From the side, the outer ring, known as the accretion disk,...
View ArticleNASA's future missions will explore an icy moon of Jupiter, collect samples...
NASA turns 61 years old on October 1. The agency first opened its doors in 1958.In the last year, NASA has announced plans to return humans to the moon and search for life on one of Saturn's moons with...
View ArticlePlanet 9, our solar system's mysterious missing world, could be an ancient...
In 2016, researchers suggested that the bizarre orbits of six objects in the solar system's Kuiper Belt could be influenced by the gravity of a mysterious distant planet that scientists had never seen....
View ArticleSpaceX just built a shiny 164-foot-tall rocket prototype in South Texas that...
SpaceX is developing a stainless-steel Mars rocket system at its private launch site in South Texas.On Friday, SpaceX mated the lower and upper sections of Starship Mk 1 — a 164-foot-tall prototype —...
View ArticleWatch live: Elon Musk reveals SpaceX's new plan for Starship, a rocket system...
Starship is the new rocket system that SpaceX is developing to ferry dozens of people to Mars.Elon Musk, the company's founder and CEO, plans to unveil the latest design of the fully reusable launch...
View ArticleElon Musk just unveiled SpaceX's audacious new plan to build cities on Mars...
Elon Musk on Saturday presented SpaceX's newest plan to develop a super-heavy launch system called Starship.Starship is a roughly 40-story rocket, designed to send up to 100 people to the surface of...
View ArticleElon Musk's ambitious plan for SpaceX's Starship aims to put the reusable...
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk plans to launch a prototype of its planned Starship reusable rocket system into orbit in less than six months. Musk presented an update on the system at the company's...
View ArticleWatch Elon Musk unveil his latest plan for conquering Mars
On September 28, Elon Musk unveiled SpaceX's upcoming plans for its latest rocket, Starship. Starship is the rocket that Musk hopes will launch people to space as early as next year, and ultimately to...
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