Married couple wanted for Mars expedition
A nonprofit foundation wants to recruit a man and a woman – possibly a married couple – for a bare-bones, 501-day journey to Mars and back that would start in less than five years, project organizers have said. The mission, expected to cost upwards of US$1 billion, would be privately financed by donations and sponsorships. … [Read the full story]
Family photo discovered on Moon’s surface
A family photograph discovered on the moon’s surface has been there for more than 40 years. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke put the picture in a plastic folder and dropped it on the surface when he travelled there in 1972. The photo, which features him, his wife Dottie and two sons, Charles and Tom, was … [Read the full story]
Have Russians found Hitler buried in Antarctica?
Russian scientists have finally drilled down through four kilometres of Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed for the last 20 million years. Veteran Antarctic researcher Professor John Priscu says that he expects to see ‘unique organisms’ in the lake. But it was revealed this may not be the only surprise from sub-glacial … [Read the full story]
On this day…in 1986
The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff on this day in 1986, killing the seven astronauts aboard. The Challenger was the second shuttle built by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It took its first flight into space on April 4, 1983, and made a total of nine voyages prior to January 1986. … [Read the full story]
Huge asteroid set to pass Earth
A huge asteroid is set to pass closer to Earth than the Moon next week – becoming the biggest space rock to do so in 35 years. The circular asteroid, named 2005 YU55, is about 1,300ft wide and will pass at a distance of 202,000 miles. The time of the nearest fly-by is expected to … [Read the full story]
Flock that!
A farmer named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the farmer, “If I tell you … [Read the full story]
There is a building on Mars…what aren’t governments telling us?
An American armchair astronomer claims he has found evidence of, well, something on Mars. David Martines has uploaded a flyby of Google Earth’s Mars explorer zooming in on a white, cylindrical shaped object. The object, according to Mr Martines, is “about 700 feet long and 150 feet wide”. He’s calling it “Bio Station Alpha, because I’m … [Read the full story]
We can now see space with just a click, thanks to those WISE people at Nasa
Nasa have launched a spectacular window on the universe that anyone can peer through. A click of the mouse will show space fans millions of stars, galaxies gas clouds and other exotic cosmic objects. The celestial gallery, including countless new discoveries, was produced by a heat-seeking space telescope called WISE, launched in December 2009. Over … [Read the full story]
Asteroids just miss Earth
The two objects were only identified at the weekend by the Nasa-funded Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, during a routine sky scan. The first asteriod, christened 2010 RX30, was about 65 feet (20 metres) in diameter and flew past at a distance of 154,000 miles early at 9:51am on Wednesday. The second, called 2010 … [Read the full story]
