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 Mauna Kea volcano won approval from the...
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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,...
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 and, this time, to stay there and...
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...
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...
UFO ‘trash bag’ orbiting Earth triggers asteroid defense telescope
Keen-eyed astronomers based in Hawaii have spotted what can only be described as a “trash bag” UFO orbiting the Earth in a rather unusual fashion....
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
Pluto has evenly spaced dark spots
New color images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a series of intriguing spots...
NASA postpones ‘flying saucer’ parachute test
High waves forced NASA to postpone until Thursday the first test of the largest parachute ever deployed, during...
Air Force’s top-secret X-37B spacecraft lands after nearly two years in orbit
The Air Force’s top-secret space plane landed in California on Friday morning after nearly two years orbiting Earth...
Mystery ‘space plane’ to touch down after record time in orbit
The Boeing X-37B, a highly classified robotic spacecraft built for the US Air Force, is to make its third landing after spending more than 670...
The Pentagon’s plan to put robot Marines in space?
Roosevelt Lafontant had a dream. A Marine Corps officer assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office at the Pentagon,...
Earth’s weakening magnetic field: Dramatic dips spotted across the Western Hemisphere
Earth’s magnetic field is a protective shield for our planet from cosmic radiation, but it’s also somewhat of...
Retired Marine claims he spent 17 years on MARS protecting human colonies
A former US Marine has claimed he spent 17 years of his career on MARS. The ex-naval infantryman,...
Astronomers discover sister to Earth’s sun
As part of a search into the origins of our galaxy, astronomers at the University of Texas have identified what they believe to be a...
Bad news for GPS: Sun releases three powerful flares in one day
Cameras used by scientists at NASA have captured images of “significant” solar flares emitting from the sun this...
Bizarre “Hybrid” Star Found
It has been almost 40 years since Professor Kip Thorne and Dr Anna Zytkow first suggested it was...
Pentagon plans multi-billion dollar project to combat space junk
Later this month the US Pentagon plans to award a massive contract to one of the two most influential American contractors for a project that,...