Space

‘Star Trek’ virtual tour recreates every deck of the Enterprise

Manned mission to Mars 50 billion USD. 530 billion yearly on military expenditures. Who would vote on military budget cuts to fund a mission to Mars?

This topic gets brought up every few weeks it seems that there’s always a lot of room to clarify federal spending and budgeting and understanding of how money is decidedRead More

Scientists confirm “Impossible” EM drive propulsion works, trips to pluto in 18 months possible

Later today, July 27, German scientists will present new experimental results on the controversial, “impossible” EM Drive, at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Propulsion and Energy Forum inRead More

Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

What we know about Kepler 452-b: It’s the smallest exoplanet discovered to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a G2-class star, just like the Earth and the Sun.Read More

Time lapse of Pluto pictures through the years

Timelapse of photos from 1930-2015.  (Click to make larger)  

China unveils plan to land on mysterious far side of the moon

The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) has unveiled its early plans for landing a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon. If all goes according to plan, China wouldRead More

Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET

LONDON — Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner are pushing the search for extraterrestrial life into higher gear.  Milner, a tech start-up entrepreneur and philanthropist, is partneringRead More

NASA’s next 7 projects – including sending a submarine to Titan

NASA has just funded seven far-out space-exploration concepts, summarized below.  One of the coolest – the Submarine being sent to Saturn’s moon Titan. You can learn more about the projectsRead More

The best Pluto images

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft snapped the first high-resolution photographs of Pluto and its moons this week. The images reveal the planetary system in unprecedented detail — highlighting mountain ranges, icyRead More