Trump signs directive to create not-so-‘equal’ Space Force as part of Air Force
US President Donald Trump has signed a policy directive officially establishing a Space Force, a sixth branch of the already-sprawling US military that will launch...
Category Archives: Science & Space
Hawaii land board approves to build world’s largest telescope atop Mauna Kea summit
A plan by California and Canadian universities to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's...
Beijing blasts US report on China & Russia ‘weaponizing’ space : Not US Property
A new US intelligence report portraying Moscow and Beijing as trying to bring warfare into the heavens has...
Bright fireball over Venezuela caught on video, prompts ‘meteor’ suggestions
Footage of a bright light in the night skies of Venezuela has appeared on various social media accounts, apparently shot from different locations of the...
NASA announces plans to return to the Moon for good
NASA’s chief has laid out the space agency’s ambitious plan to go back to the Moon next year...
Scientists figure out how to build future space stations inside asteroids
Future off-planet exploration may rely on space stations built inside enormous asteroids, thanks to new research. The move...
NASA satellite mysteriously goes silent after flying past Mars
NASA’s “WALL-E” satellite has mysteriously gone silent after zooming past Mars and the government space agency isn’t sure why. The small satellite (known as a...
Scientists reveal true shape of Milky Way: It’s warped & twisted
The Milky Way looks nothing like the flat space pancake it is usually depicted as. The newly-created and...
NOAA Has Updated the North and South Magnetic Pole Locations
This image is only up to 2010 time-frame but you can see the history of the shift Some...
Meteor EXPLODES, shatters windows in western Cuba – after startling Florida Keys
A meteor has rocked the skies of western Cuba, exploding mid-air, shattering windows and raining charred meteorite rocks...
Engineers translate brain signals directly into speech
In a scientific first, Columbia neuroengineers have created a system that translates thought into intelligible, recognizable speech. By monitoring someone's brain activity, the technology can...
NASA publishes most-detailed PHOTOS of Earth-bound, water-bearing asteroid yet
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has sent back the most detailed images to date of the Bennu asteroid, marking the...
Gold Is Created in a few 10ths of a Second
Pressure changes cause precious metal to deposit each time the crust moves. Scientists have long known that veins...
Earth’s magnetic poles are on the move…
Over the past 40 years the north magnetic pole has been drifting northwest from Canada to Siberia at the rate of 50 kilometres a year....
Mount St Helens: Scientist reveals molten rock ‘rising 16 Feet a DAY’
On May 18, 1980, Mount St Helens erupted in the US state of Washington. The blast, which measured 5...
Planetary collision that created Moon also seeded Earth with life-producing elements
The elemental building-blocks of life arrived on Earth when it collided with a “Mars-sized planet” 4.4 billion years...
Futuristic space hotel set to open in 2021
A tech start-up company says their luxury space hotel should be done by 2021. Visitors to the hotel will get to see 16 sunrises a...
CERN reveals plan for particle accelerator FOUR TIMES the size of the LHC
Scientists behind the world's largest atom smasher have laid out their multibillion-dollar vision to build an even bigger...
Arctic cotton candy-colored snow may be a warning sign
To some, pink snow sounds like a child’s fantasy come true. To others, it sounds like a dangerous...
Boeing patents ‘flying submarine’ concept
As the Pentagon expands its drone programs, weapons-makers are coming up with increasingly outlandish ideas for unmanned vehicles....
‘Ghost particles’ from space found in South Pole ice
A neutrino observatory based in Antarctica has confirmed the detection of massless particles deep within the South Pole’s ice. They were created from astrophysical sources...
Travel in a tube? Elon Musk’s Hyperloop to enter construction in 2016
Remember the hyperloop – the futuristic transportation system that’s faster than an airplane that no one thought possible...
2nd exoplanet discovered 21 light-years from Earth
NASA astronomers have found another exoplanet outside the solar system. It’s larger than Earth and is 21 light-years...
China building world’s largest 500-meter radio telescope
China is assembling what has been hailed as the world's largest radio telescope, state media reported. The 500-meter tool will boast a dish the size...