A married couple mars mission is being set to happen in January 2018, courtesy by Inspiration Mars Foundation, a new nonprofit organization founded by private space traveler Dennis Tito, a multimillionaire American engineer who spent nearly 8 days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1 in 2001. Image Credit: InspirationMars.org According to a [...]
Do you want to see a pink planet in sky? Good news for star gazers, or should I say planet gazers, as NASA scientists confirmed that Mercury can be seen as a pink planet in sky about 30 minutes after sunset. According to NASA, Mercury can be seen as a pink planet starting February 8 [...]
A so-called asteroid worth $195B is now approaching our planet, and will be within 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) of Earth this Friday, February 15, 2013. The asteroid, known as the 2012 DA14 will not hit Earth, but a group of space miners said it could be worth nearly $200 billion. Asteroid 2012 DA14 Earth flyby [...]
The forty two (42) alien planets found by a group of amateur researchers from the Planet Hunters project are now awaiting confirmation from professional astronomers, according to a Live Science report on Friday, January 11, 2013. About 40 volunteers of Planet Hunters, one of many Zooniverse projects, reportedly discovered the planet candidates by going through [...]
Mars Flower Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Malin Space Science Systems NASA’s Curiosity Rover reportedly spotted new photos of Mars with a “flower” embedded in a Martian rock, according to Space.com reports, January 6, 2013. Based on reports, the so-called Mars “flower” photo was taken last December 19 by the microscope-like Mars Hand Lends Imager at the [...]
100 billion alien planets Image Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger There are 100 billion alien planets in the Milky Way galaxy based on the estimates of a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. John Johnson, an assistant professor [...]
Did Neil Armstrong lied about his famous words on the moon? Probably, if the latest documentary where Neil‘s brother, Dean, was interviewed is to be believed. Neil Armstrong Image Credit: NASA In a recent BBC documentary, Dean is quoted as saying that Neil showed him the famous words months before the Apollo 11 flight, during [...]
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) Image Credit: Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero & Nick Howes/Remanzacco Observatory A newly discovered comet will make its closest pass by Earth in 2013 and may be visible to naked eye when it draws near, according to Space.com reports, December 31, 2012. Based on reports, the discovery of the object named Comet [...]
Is the earth going to end in 2040 because of an asteroid? No. Year 2040 will not be the end of the world after the failed 2012 prediction, as NASA confirmed. NASA confirmed on its latest study that the Asteroid 2011 AG5 that was believed to be a threat to earth when it passes by [...]
A group of astronomers recently released the so-called universe’s baby picture, shown in the photo below. The said image was accomplished after nine years of data gathering made by the science team of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which retired in October 2010. According to a report at Space.com on Friday, December 21, 2012, the [...]