Category Archives: Space Exploration

The science fiction movies may be too optimistic. Giant Asteroid on Collision Course with Earth Could Not Be Stopped by a Nuclear Bomb, NASA Simulation Shows by Virgilio Marin | Natural News An asteroid simulation exercise led by the National … Continue reading →

Probing Deep Space With a New Interstellar Spacecraft by European Geosciences Union | SciTechDaily When the four-decades-old Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and 2018, respectively, scientists celebrated. These plucky spacecraft had already traveled 120 … Continue reading →

Researchers are pinning their hopes on the telescope to study the very onset of the universe without the process being disturbed by radio interference from Earth. The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, to be planted on the moon’s far side, would … Continue reading →

Virgin Galactic has revealed its latest suborbital spaceplane, a vehicle that looks similar to its existing SpaceShipTwo but incorporates significant structural improvements. The vehicle, built at Virgin Galactic’s facility in Mojave, California, is ready for ground tests there, with a … Continue reading →

Mars’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos, have puzzled researchers since their discovery in 1877. They are very small: Phobos’s diameter of 22 kilometers is 160 times smaller than that of our Moon, and Deimos is even smaller, with a diameter … Continue reading →

If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. To date, even recent research about superluminal (faster-than-light) transport based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity … Continue reading →

NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful and blue — and it was captured in an image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The barred spiral galaxy stretches an immense 200,000 light-years across and is located approximately 100 … Continue reading →

The Comet That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Theory on Origin of the Chicxulub Impactor by Harvard University | SciTechDaily It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The … Continue reading →

A team of astronomers has confirmed the discovery of a planetoid that is almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto, making it the most distant object ever observed in our solar system. The planetoid, which has been nicknamed … Continue reading →

A man in Scotland hopes to raise enough money to send a proponent of the Flat Earth theory into space so that they can see that the planet is actually round. He has launched a crowdfunding campaign aimed at generating … Continue reading →

This article serves as an introduction to the topic of planets outside of our Solar System, one of the most important areas of research in astronomy today. What Are Extrasolar Planets? by Matt Williams | Universe Today For countless generations, … Continue reading →

A Very Interesting Radio Signal Was Just Detected Coming from Proxima Centauri by Matthew Cimone | Universe Today There’s a powerful scene in the movie “Contact” (one of my favs) where lead character Ellie Arroway is sitting among an array … Continue reading →

The RAVN-X Is a New Autonomous Aircraft Designed to Launch Small Satellites by Matt Williams | Universe Today In the past twenty years, one of the biggest developments to take place in the realm of space exploration has been the … Continue reading →