We Might Have a New Way to Push Back Space Radiation
A new study has revealed how human activity has been affected the near-space environment, creating a bubble that protects against…
Dawn Gets Right in Between the Sun and Ceres and Takes this Video
Using data provided by the Dawn probe, which now orbits between Ceres and the Sun (at opposition), NASA has created…
Could the Closest Extrasolar Planet Be Habitable? Astronomers Plan to Find Out
According to a series of simulations conducted by scientists from the University of Exeter and the Met Office, it is…
New Explanation for Dark Energy? Tiny Fluctuations of Time and Space
A new study by a team of researchers from UBC proposes a new vision of Dark Energy, where fluctuations in…
Mysterious Flashes Coming From Earth That Puzzled Carl Sagan Finally Have An Explanation
NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft solves decades old mystery that stymied Carl Sagan. Mysterious flashes are mysterious no…
SpaceX Blasts Biggest High Speed Communications Satellite to Orbit for Inmarsat
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX blasted the “largest and most complicated communications satellite ever built to orbit” for London…
Finding Alien Megastructures Around Nearby Pulsars
A new study addresses the possibility of being able to observe alien megastructures around nearby pulsars using current instruments
Messier 42 – The Orion Nebula
Located in the Orion Constellation (just below the belt), between 1,324 and 1,364 light years from Earth, is the famous…
New Estimate Puts the Supernova Killzone Within 50 Light-Years of Earth
A new paper on supernovae and the effects on Earth increases the so-called "Supernova Kill-Zone" to 50 light years.
SpaceX Targeting Twilight Thunder for May 15 Inmarsat Blastoff – Watch Live
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is targeting twilight thunder with the firms Falcon 9 rocketing skyward from the Florida…