These bubbles could spell trouble. A high-tech radar has detected invisible space bubbles over the Great Pyramids of Giza, providing clues to scientists who hope to prevent future satellite interruptions by this mysterious phenomenon. Researchers in China published their findings last month after observing the mysterious floating structures with a breadth as far as 9,500 kilometers. … Read more
Lost — and found — in space. Thought misplacing your car keys was bad? A satellite called S73-7 that had been missing since the 1990s mysteriously turned up again this week, raising the question of how the Department of Defense lost the interstellar probe in the first place. “The S73-7 satellite has been rediscovered after … Read more
Somebody really spaced out on this one. NASA has lost contact with its deep space, Voyager 2 satellite after giving the unmanned module an incorrect command two weeks ago, the Associated Press reported. On Tuesday, it was announced NASA had only first heard back from the vessel when a “heartbeat signal” was picked up by … Read more
It’s one giant explosion for mankind. At the end of the 1950s — a decade shy of Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing — the US military had the radical idea of detonating a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon, Air Force documents from 1959 show. “Nuclear detonations in the vicinity of the moon … Read more