Space

  Narrator: Astronomers have found dozens of potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system. That's dozens of chances to discover the first alien life! Or plenty of places we could park our first interstellar colonies!   But with so many options, how do...

A new calculation provides a new way to think about our solar system. What’s the closest planet to Earth? Common sense would say the answer is either Mars or Venus, our next door neighbors. Of the two, Venus comes closer to the Earth than any other...

There I was, standing under the colorful dancing sky, watching Comet Neowise traverse the horizon right before my eyes. I was witnessing an astronomical event that only happens every 6,800 years. To this day, I still pinch myself: that...

It happened back in 1986—but it could happen again. Voyager 2’s iconic portrait of Uranus hides many details of a complex world, some of which are starting to come to light. NASA/JPL   There’s a giant blank spot in researchers’ ever-growing map of...

There's really no disputing this amazing UFO sighting filmed over Egypts most famous landmark the Pyramids of Giza.   There's no information on the UFO itself but that doesn't take away from the UFO craft itself unless let's say, we did have the name of...

On September 9, 1975, NASA launched a Titan 3E rocket towards Mars, carrying the Viking 2 spacecraft, which was part of a global space campaign to explore Mars. The Viking program can be considered the first truly effective one in...

These painstakingly restored images from the Apollo missions show our planet as it truly appears.   Featured as the cover image of Toby Ord's new book, The Precipice, this haunting crescent earthrise was captured by Richard Gordon on Apollo 12. NASA & Toby...

This panorama, made up of 81 individual images stitched together, was taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Nov. 20, 2021, which was the 3,303rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA's Curiosity rover...

With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and providing us...

Researchers have confirmed the existence of a SECOND Earth located in the Proxima Centauri System. The planet is believed to have oceans just like Earth and may hay host alien life. In the past, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered...