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Woman Who Claims To Have Seen An Alien Is One Of A Select Few Being...

For Lauren Reeves, a 30-year-old from New York, the most difficult part about living on Mars would be internet connection. "Like," Reeves mused in her application video for a one-way trip to Mars,...

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Scientists Testified Before Congress That We Will Know If Aliens Exist Within...

During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer asserted that solid evidence for extraterrestrial life in our galaxy —...

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Here's Why Richard Branson Is Wrong About Space Travel

 <div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> NOW WATCH: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't Be Fooled, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic...

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SpaceX Just Released Video Of A New Engine That Could Land Humans On Another...

On Wednesday, Elon Musk's private transport company SpaceX announced that it completed testing on its SuperDraco thruster, an abort engine that will be part of its new Dragon spacecraft. More details...

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How Humans Will Talk To Aliens When We Meet Them

Assuming we one day contact aliens, how will we communicate with them? That's the subject of a new book from NASA called Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication. (Kudos to Jesus Diaz...

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Beautiful 'Earthshine' Effect Visible Tonight

Tonight when the new Moon rises, or in the next few nights when the Moon is a slim crescent, go outside and look up. You might see Earth's reflected light in the dim glow.A new Moon occurs when all of...

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SpaceX Just Unveiled Its Brand-New Capsule For Taking Astronauts To Space

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the next version of the company's Dragon spacecraft, Dragon V2, on Thursday night at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California.Here's the moment of the big...

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Elon Musk's Space Capsule Interior Is So Much Nicer Than The Competition

SpaceX revealed on Thursday an updated version of its cargo-only-carrying Dragon spacecraft, showing off the new capsule's sleek interior with room to seat seven astronauts.The Dragon V2 is much more...

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Whatever Happened To NASA's Space Boat?

In 2009, the media was abuzz that NASA and ESA were considering the very first space boat — a floating vessel that would roam the lakes of one of Saturn's moons. Unfortunately, the project lost out to...

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Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible

Based on what we know about how solar systems form, researchers thought that a giant rocky planet could not exist. But they just found one that's 17 times Earth's mass. They're calling it the...

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At Least 100 Million Planets In Our Galaxy May Host Life

What a multitude of worlds! A new study suggests that the Milky Way could host 100 million planets with complex life, leaving no lack of choice for astronomers to look for organisms beyond Earth. The...

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The 12 Planets Most Likely To Contain Life

Scientists on Monday reported they had discovered a rocky "mega-Earth" that expands the definition of planets beyond our solar system that could potentially host life.The new type of planet,...

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How The New Mega-Earth Will Change Our Search For Extraterrestrial Life

On June 2, scientists announced the discovery of a brand new type of planet— a rocky giant 17 times Earth's mass, which they dubbed a "mega-Earth."Mega-Earths were thought to be impossible based on...

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NASA Is Launching A Flying Saucer On Thursday

A saucer-shaped vehicle that could help NASA land big payloads on the surface of Mars is about to take to the skies for the first time.NASA hopes to launch its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD)...

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Astronomers Release Hubble's Most Colorful View Of The Universe Ever

Behold the most colorful image of the universe ever captured by the Hubble telescope. Isn't it beautiful?The picture was released on Tuesday and presented during a meeting of the American Astronomical...

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Found! The Oldest Known Alien Planet That Could Support Life

Two newly-discovered planets orbit one of the oldest stars found near the sun, and one of the planets is close enough to its star that it might sustain life.Kapteyn b and Kapteyn c are both 11.5...

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Two Exoplanets Will Soon Die A Fiery Death

In 130 to 155 million years, Earthlings might get a front-row seat to the death of not one, but two planets.Gongji Li, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,...

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Astronaut Says The Thrill Of Space Wears Off In Less Than A Week

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman blasted off to the International Space Station on May 29. But only a week later, he's already tweeting back to his more than 56,000 followers that being in space doesn't...

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Elon Musk Isn't Backing Off Some Of His Most Serious Accusations Against The...

Two weeks ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk called out a former Air Force procurement official on Twitter for taking a job at a company that made components for SpaceX's main competitor, Rocketdyne. On...

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Here's What The World's Largest Heat Shield Looks Like

The largest heat shield ever built for a spacecraft has just met its ride — NASA's new Orion deep-space capsule — ahead of the craft's debut test flight later this year.Engineers with NASA and...

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