Category: Space

The ‘floating spoon’ on Mars: Nasa’s Curiosity rover spots strange geological feature on the red planet

The images sent back from Nasa’s Mars Curiosity rover often contain strange rock formation.In these rocks, the world has spotted everything from pyramids, coffins, iguanas […]

How our brains trick us into seeing crabs on Mars, not to mention Jesus on toast

To the folks at UFO Sightings Daily, NASA’s archive of Mars images from its Curiosity rover is better than a candy shop. Every visit yields […]

The Sky this Week: August 28–September 6, 2015

Neptune reaches opposition and peak visibility today. Because it lies opposite the Sun in our sky, it rises at sunset and appears highest in the […]

Perseid Meteor Shower Will Peak Just Days from Now

The Perseid meteor shower happens each summer when our planet moves through the stream of debris left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle, discovered by astronomers back […]

Mars ‘Pyramid’ Seen By NASA Rover Isn’t Quite What It Seems

NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a pyramid on Mars–at least that’s what some paranormal enthusiasts seem to think…. Not surprisingly, NASA’s explanation for the object […]

Will Science Discover Alien Life in Your Lifetime?

Are we alone in the universe? That’s a question humans have pondered throughout the ages. That’s also a question that may find an answer sooner […]

The Strangest Alien Planets

The Strangest Alien Planets | Exoplanets & Extrasolar Planets, Solar System & Universe Space Exploration.

7 Creepy Theories About Space

Space has always been an intriguing place for most of us. There is still so much to learn about the vastness of the Universe. At […]

Is There Alien Life On Saturn’s Moon, Titan?

Apparently, Saturn’s moon Titan doesn’t look that different from some of the wilder parts of Earth — there are mountains, lakes, storms, islands, and perhaps […]

Rosetta glimpses its own shadow on comet 67P

The sharp-eyed science camera on Europe’s Rosetta comet orbiter caught a view of the probe’s fuzzy shadow when controllers guided the spacecraft just a few […]

Doomsday Asteroid’s Moon Is In Fact UFO Say Conspiracy Theorists

When asteroid 2004 BL86 skimmed past Earth, no one could have predicted the incredible images that then followed. It turned out that the asteroid had […]

Moon Over Orion Heralds Start of NASA’s Human Road to Mars

This week’s appearance of the Moon over the Kennedy Space Center marks the perfect backdrop heralding the start of NASA’s determined push to send Humans […]

Outer this world! Stunning photos of space captured by amateur astronomers

Stunning images of outer space have been released, which have been taken by amateur astronomers and photographers.The Central West Astronomical Society received more than 200 […]

Is It Time to Accept That We’re Alone in the Universe?

We have yet to discover any signs of aliens, a troubling observation that has led to much speculation. One possible solution to the Great Silence […]

How Planets Get Multiple Suns Like ‘Star Wars” Tatooine

A planet may be forming in a star system with more than one sun, making it sort of like an early Tatooine, the fictional home […]

Comet’s flyby of Mars a boon for scientists

The red planet’s brush with Comet Siding Spring Sunday was a close encounter of the best kind for science, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study a […]

Vintage Memorabilia Celebrates The Soviet Union’s Cosmonaut Dogs

The canine members of Soviet Union’s space program were stars, symbols of the nation’s technological future. And so, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, these pups […]

Water Vapor Found on Neptune-size Alien Planet

A Neptune-size planet beyond the solar system has telltale traces of water vapor in its atmosphere, making it the smallest exoplanet known to have the […]

Supernova Discovered By ESA’s Gaia Observatory

Less than two months after it first began repeatedly scanning the sky, the ESA’s Gaia space observatory has discovered its first supernova – a powerful […]

NASA has some advice for how you can find aliens

NASA believes it has figured out the best ways to identify alien life. The agency has published new work in the Astrophysical Journal this week […]

Northern Lights set to dazzle large parts of the UK

Sky watchers in northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland could be in store for a beautiful display of the aurora borealis.The Northern Lights could be […]

Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket

Seventy years ago this month, one of the second world war’s scariest weapons began to rain terror on London. But the V-2 was also the […]

NASA panel levels criticism at Curiosity rover team

An independent panel of scientists slammed the $2.5 billion Curiosity Mars rover’s management team in a report released Wednesday, saying the mission’s plan “lacked scientific […]

5 Weird Yet True Facts You Didn’t Know About Space

5 Weird Yet True Facts You Didn’t Know About Space – TechEBlog.

STAR PAWS: The animal pioneers who played key role in mankind’s race to space

After five geckos froze to death while we studied their sex habits in zero gravity, we look at other animals which have taken one for […]