Tiny ‘Star Chip’ Could Reach Distant ‘Earth 2.0’ in 20 Years
Can a probe the size of a postage stamp reach Alpha Centauri ? Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri. During a speech at the Starmus Festival in Norway this week, the world-famous physicist described a new type of miniature spacecraft called a Star Chip that could soon make it … Continue reading
If We Do In Fact Live in a Multiverse, Where Are These Worlds Hiding?
By some estimates, the known universe may contain as many as 2 trillion galaxies, with the average galaxy holding approximately 100 million stars and untold numbers of planets. But could there be multiple copies of the entire universe as we understand it? The concept of a multiverse — worlds that invisibly coexist alongside us, perhaps representing versions of reality that … Continue reading
The Future Space-Based Country ‘Asgardia’ to Launch Satellite
I find the actual Asgardia project so exciting. Looking at the image later in this article captioned “space colony as visualized for the space-based nation Asgardia.” It really makes me want to be a part of it, I can only imagine how stunning the visuals would be looking up at “sky” into space and seeing all the beauty we miss … Continue reading
Is Earth About To Be Hit By An Asteroid? Making Sense of Life in a Hostile Universe
This Saturday at roughly 2:38 AM Eastern Time an asteroid bigger than a football stadium will whiz past Earth at 28,000 miles per hour and almost certainly not hit us. But that won’t be the end of it. The 755-foot-diameter projectile is set to return every year until 2022, during which time who knows what could happen. Per custom, the … Continue reading
A New Planet? Weird Orbits Hint ‘PLANET 10’ Might Lurk At Our Solar System Edge
In the headline pic above: An artist’s impression of Planet Ten Astronomers studying icy objects in a distant region called the Kuiper belt say an unconfirmed planet with similar mass to Mars could be responsible for tugging them out of alignment.. THE dark outer reaches of our solar system could be hiding a new planet – the ninth or tenth, … Continue reading
There Will Likely Be A New Meteor Shower Courtesy of Comet Borisov
Peter Jenniskens and Esko Lyytinen report that the dust trail of 700-year comet Borisov, who just passed perihelion in 2014, will be in the Earth’s path on 2017 July 29 at 00:22 UT. Earth will pass only 0.0006 AU inside the comet’s orbit at a time when the comet has just passed perihelion, both favorable circumstances for detecting meteors. Observers … Continue reading
NASA Reveals 10 New Worlds We Might One Day Call Home
NASA’s Kepler space telescope team have identified 219 new planet candidates, ten of which could prove to be humanity’s next great hopes of life among the stars. The exoplanets, planets which occupy space outside of our solar system, are all near-Earth size and occupy the habitable zones of their star systems where liquid water, the precursor for life, would pool … Continue reading
Huge Spherical Object And Other Anomalies Shows Up On NASA’s Satellite Image of the Sun
A fascinating image of an unknown massive spherical object near the Sun has been captured by NASA’s SDO AIA 171 on June 14, 2017. NASA explains that “on rare occasions” the image processor can become overloaded resulting in corrupted images but in this case the image is completely clear and it shows an unidentified object which certainly not looks like … Continue reading
Study Suggests ALL Stars Are Born With A Companion (Including Our Sun)
Did the Sun have a companion and if so, where did it go ? New evidence has suggested that all the sunlike stars in the universe may have formed together in pairs. The findings, which were based on a recent radio survey of a giant molecular cloud full of recently formed stars in the constellation Perseus, suggest that stars do … Continue reading
Mysterious ‘Wow!’ Signal Was Likely NOT Caused by Comet (But Aliens Might Have)
If you’ve been following the latest news on the famous WOW signal, you may have heard that it has been suggested that a comet may be the cause of the famous unexplained “wow” signal. Or was it? Give the article by Live Science a read: An astronomer thinks he’s pinpointed the source of a mysterious radio signal from space: a … Continue reading
