The beleaguered Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently posted over 12 million pages of previously declassified material on its “CIA Records Search Tool database.” As reported by Wired, this translates into approximately 930,000 documents, most of which are a collection of “magazine and newspaper articles” that the CIA would comb through in pre-internet days for data gathering. While most sleuths may not be […]

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and NASA are building a DNA detector to search for evidence of life on Mars. (Article by Andrew Follett from DailyCaller.com) MIT and NASA think rocks flying between Earth and the Red Planet may have contained micro-organisms capable of surviving the environments of both worlds. Researchers think finding DNA […]

Analysis from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover suggests the planet is covered in organic materials. Jennifer Eigenbrode, who is a biogeochemist and geologist working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said she was convinced that organics are “all over Mars.” Eigenbrode brought up the discussion last week at a National Academy of Sciences workshop […]

A manufactured aluminium object has recently gained lots of attention after being kept secret for decades. What makes it special is that it dates back to a time far prior to 200 years ago, when humans started producing metallic aluminium. The baffling object appears to have been hand crafted and there’s a lot of speculation […]

Our galaxy’s weirdest star, KIC 8462852, is even weirder than previously thought, showing changes never observed before in a star like this. Article by IFL Science To quickly recap, last year it was announced that the object experienced dramatic and rapid changes in brightness, which led to the wild speculation that the object was surrounded […]

Although astronomers are currently looking for extraterrestrial life, it’s not known whether space aliens would be friendly or hostile to Earthlings. In the event humanity needs to hide its presence, astronomers have figured out a way to shield Earth from alien observers. Astronomers search for Earth-like planets by looking for light dips that imply a […]

Scientists have been long obfuscated by the mechanisms that allowed life to blossom. One of the great debates in the study of the origin of life, abiogenesis, is whether the building blocks of life arose spontaneously or were seeded here from elsewhere. Now, a group of researchers at the National Centre for Scientific Research in […]

NASA will accept proposals for missions to two of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus and Titan, for its New Frontiers mission. The space agency stated in a community announcement email that they would consider visiting the “Ocean Worlds” in a set of six classes of missions. They will accept proposals for the Next Frontiers competition in 2017. […]

European scientists launched a colony of tiny fungi from Antarctica to the International Space Station (ISS) to see if microorganisms could survive in environmental conditions similar to Mars. After 18 months on board the ISS, the researchers found out that the fungi could not only live in a Mars-like environment, they may even colonize the […]