Moon Village: Humanity’s first step toward a lunar colony?
Location, location, location Currently, stakeholders plan to build Moon Village near the lunar south pole. In particular, they want to target somewhere close to the rim of Shackleton…
Marsquakes reveal new impact crater forming and modern magma
As it slowly dies, NASA’s InSight Mars lander has made two major new discoveries recently. By sensing seismic activity from the Red Planet, the craft has now…
Scientists May Have Unwittingly Spotted Planet Nine in Our Solar System
Planet Nine continues to “hide in the shadows,” whether it is real or not. Now, scientists have a new way to look into the object in space…
Theoretical physicists assert that there are two dimensions to time
As science fiction would have you believe, you can’t really go to “another dimension.” Dimensions are more about how we see the world. But some things point…
Harvard Astronomers Estimate 4 Quintillion Alien Spacecraft Near Our Solar System
Looking at the night sky, we cannot help but wonder whether there is life elsewhere in the cosmos. There likely is. I firmly believe so. Not just…
A faraway trio of stars are surrounded by a strangely distorted planet-forming disk
Three rings of gas and dust circle a trio of stars in one of the most complicated cosmic dances yet observed by astronomers. The star system GW…
It’s Official: NASA’s sending a mission to titan, a top candidate for alien life
For its newest planetary science mission, NASA aims to land a flying robot on the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, a top target in the search for alien…
The Milky Way’s whole black hole swarm has been observed moving
A swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes may be hidden in the core of a fluffy cluster of stars flowing across the sky. If this finding…
Weird quantum effect that can turn matter invisible finally demonstrated
A weird quantum effect that was predicted decades ago has finally been demonstrated — if you make a cloud of gas cold and dense enough, you can…
Join the hunt for elusive spooky sprites in the sky with this ‘Spritacular’ project
A new crowdsourcing science project called “Spritacular” is asking skywatchers to use their digital cameras to try to capture images of unusual electrical discharges above thunderstorms. These…