NASA – Meteor slams into Moon
Meteor slams into Moon
A MASSIVE explosion from a meteor which crashed into the Moon was visible to the naked eye on Earth, NASA says.
A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright anyone looking up [...]
Search for Life on Mars
The search for life on Mars
Some early astronomers were certain that intelligent beings lived on Mars. Percival Lowell popularised the idea that the Martians built canals to irrigate their dying planet.
In 1965, the Mariner 4 probe took the [...]
The end of of a planet – Pluto
Pluto has gone!
Pluto is six billion km from the Sun – that’s 40 times the Earth’s distance from the Sun. It took until 1930 for Pluto to be found and even then its discovery was almost an accident.
A Planet Definition Committee [...]
Panspermia
An Origin of Life On Earth Theory
Cosmic Ancestry is a new theory pertaining to evolution and the origin of life on Earth. It holds that life on Earth was seeded from space, and that life’s evolution to higher forms depends on genetic [...]
NASA Rover to investigate riverbed on Mars
Things have been a bit quiet on Mars of late. During most of April, Nasa’s Curiosity rover enjoyed some R&R while the Red Planet moved behind the Sun as viewed from Earth.
This conjunction, as it is known, plays havoc with communications [...]
Laser Beam Shoots Sun Causing CME
Laser Shoots Beam at the Sun
05.03.13
This flare is classified as an M5.7-class flare. M-class flares are the weakest flares that can still cause some space weather effects near Earth. Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, [...]
2 Solar Flares in 23 days….?
Solar Flare M6.5 on 04-11-13
The sun emitted a mid-level flare, peaking at 3:16 a.m. EDT on April 11, 2013.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically [...]
The Ultimate Guide To Space Travel
For around half a century we’ve been trying to boldly go where no man has gone before. How successful have we been?
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know what happened before the Big Bang?
In many ways, it’s strange to us humans that the Universe should be the age it is. The Universe – by definition, everything that physically exists – should either be infinite in age, or somehow tied to the lifespan of the human species, [...]
Space Junk Warnings
Unless space debris is actively tackled, some satellite orbits will become extremely hazardous over the next 200 years, a new study suggests.
The study was conducted for the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee.
This is the global [...]
