NEW YORK, Monday, 22nd April 2013 – Mars One is happy to announce the launch of its astronaut selection program today. The search has begun for the first humans to set foot on Mars and make it their home. Mars One invites would-be Mars settlers from anywhere in the world to submit an online application [...]
A deadly meteor headed straight for earth at an insane speed, entering Earth’s atmosphere and slamming into Russia. A 1000 people have been injured, a portion of that hospitalized with 1 in a coma. That very day Asteroid 2012 DA14 passed earth without harm… News then broke out that there was a second meteorite that hit Cuba two hours prior [...]
Source: NASA.GOV WASHINGTON — NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole. “Bright X-ray novae are so rare that they’re [...]
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, this discovery proves that more than one planet can [...]
At this very point in time there’s a freaking man made object the size of a car heading for another planet! How this doesn’t fascinate my fellow humans surprises me every time I think about it. After NASA launched Mars rover Curiosity in November 2011, the rover is set to land on the Red Planet somewhere in [...]
A company called Space X aspires to send willing people off to Mars within the next 20 years. From retiring space shuttle fleets to bombing the Moon, NASA has obviously started working towards sending one of us to Mars’ unspoilt and naturally hostile plains possibly a decade ago already. According to Space X: “”We’ll probably [...]
Washington – A Nasa scientist’s claim that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and scepticism, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts. Richard Hoover’s paper, along with pictures of the microscopic earthworm-like creatures, were published late on Friday in the peer-reviewedJournal of Cosmology, [...]
In 2004, NASA scientists announced that there was a chance that Apophis, an asteroid larger than two football fields, could smash into Earth in 2029. A few additional observations and some number-crunching later, astronomers noted that the chance of the planet-killer hitting Earth in 2029 was nearly zilch. Now, reports out of Russia say that [...]
