Shoot for the moon — you could land a new home. By 2040, Americans could be living on the moon, despite skeptics’ doubt, a NASA spokesperson told The New York Times. “We’re at a pivotal moment, and in some ways, it feels like a dream sequence,” Niki Werkheiser, the director of technology maturation at NASA, … Read more
They’re just going through a phase. The moon and Venus will visibly “snuggle,” as Space.com puts it, in the pre-dawn sky Tuesday morning. The two celestial bodies will share the same right ascension — which astronomers call a conjunction, the site reports. This special event is for early risers, as the spectacle will likely unfold … Read more
Star bright is an understatement. A dead star known as the Vela pulsar redefined hit Earth with a blast of energy so powerful that scientists are at a loss to explain it, according to a new study detailing the cosmic fireworks display published in the journal Nature Astronomy. “This discovery was so unexpected … that it … Read more
One small step for man, one giant leap for Prada. The Italian luxury fashion house announced Wednesday that it will be teaming up with Axiom Space to design the spacesuits for NASA’s 2025 Artemis III mission. Engineers at Prada will work side-by-side with Axiom’s systems team throughout the process of designing the lunar suits. “The … Read more
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dropped never-before-seen photos of one of Saturn’s moons while comparing them to well-known food dishes. “Ravioli, pierogi, empanada… What do you see? No wrong answers,” NASA posted on its Instagram account Monday, accompanied by pictures of Pan, the innermost of Saturn’s moons. The photos, which were taken from the Cassini … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope might have made what one expert is hailing as the “discovery of the century” — about 744 trillion miles from Earth. A team of international astronomers have “found potential evidence of life in the atmosphere of another world,” Robert Zubrin, an American aerospace engineer and advocate for human exploration of … Read more
A breakthrough instrument on NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is considered a mission success after producing enough oxygen for a small dog to breathe for about 10 hours. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, is a microwave-sized device that takes unbreathable Martian air and turns it into oxygen humans – and dogs – rely on. … Read more
Something fishy might be happening on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an image on the Red Planet of two boulders that resemble, respectively, a shark fin and a crab claw. The car-sized robot arrived on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, and has been exploring the Jezero Crater, looking for any sign that life on Mars … Read more
Things are going to get a bit rocky. A house-sized asteroid is set to soar by Earth Wednesday, with four other space rocks slated to follow in the coming days, according to NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard. The near-60-foot big fella, named JA5, was discovered in 2021 and is expected to miss Earth by 3.17 million … Read more
A Park Slope man is on a mission to show New Yorkers the heavens — and not even the city’s universally nightmarish traffic can get in his way. Joe Delfausse, 82, went viral on Tuesday after a large group of people gathered in the middle of Ninth Avenue in Brooklyn to peer into his telescope … Read more
Who are the best stars for Mars? Computational social scientists at George Mason University have published a new paper that reveals the ideal types of Earthlings to inhabit Mars upon the red planet’s hopeful colonization some day. “Establishing a human settlement on Mars is an incredibly complex engineering problem,” the researchers wrote. “The inhospitable nature … Read more
She thinks E.T. is B.S. A top member of NASA brass is doubling down that Earthlings have yet to observe a UFO of alien origin — her remarks coming amid extra interest in extraterrestrials fueled by bombshell congressional hearings and alien whistleblowers. When Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) director Dr. Laurie Leshin was asked by FOX10 … Read more
Space rocks. One of the solar system’s most breathtaking spectacles will be highly visible throughout the U.S. and the rest of the northern hemisphere in the upcoming days, putting on what experts predict to be a magnificent show from above for the ages. The annual Perseids — billed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration … Read more
There’s a mystery on Mars. If you think time is whizzing by on planet Earth, try spending some time on the Red Planet. Mars is spinning faster and gradually shortening each day slightly, scientists have found — and it has left them puzzled. The findings, which were published in Nature, used data from NASA’s InSight … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant cosmic question mark in space that has baffled scientists. The team operating the telescope at the European Space Agency released an image on Wednesday that offered the most detailed look yet at two actively forming young stars located some 1470 light-years from Earth in the Vela … Read more
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a “potentially hazardous asteroid.” On July 18, 2023, an algorithm called HelioLinc3D identified a 600-foot asteroid, which has since been christened “2022 SF289.” Though the name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, the discovery is a massive achievement. Partnering with the University of Hawaii’s NASA-funded ATLAS project, which … Read more
Ancient warriors were using a-steroids to gain an edge in battle. Aliens might not have built the ancient pyramids — but ancient humans apparently employed alien weaponry: Researchers have discovered that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, proving that “extraterrestrial weapons” aren’t just relegated to science fiction flicks. “A single … 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
Get ready for a cosmic double feature you’ll love to the moon and back. August will see two supermoons in a rare astronomical event that won’t happen again until January 2037. The month will open and close with a supermoon, with the sturgeon supermoon rising on Aug. 1 and a rare super blue moon on … Read more
This fall marks the 20th anniversary since the final flight of Concorde, the world’s first supersonic commercial airliner. Traveling at twice the speed of sound — around 1,350 mph — Concorde could take passengers from New York to London in under three hours. But the enormous costs of maintaining the plane — along with a … Read more