Time is one of the most familiar and bewildering phenomena in the universe. It is fundamental to human experience and a feature of reality everyone feels like they understand until they start thinking about it. Yet advances in modern physics suggest time is not a fundamental feature of the world, but assembled by a more […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is joining forces with billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow to create the first inflatable space hotel for tourists by 2020. The announcement was made at a news conference at the U.S. Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The duo announced Monday that they intend to launch a 330-cubic meter inflatable space station, […]

Astronomy abandons our preconceived notions of the universe, somewhere between the horizon of a black hole and its singularity. That is, at least, what the insights of famed physicist Stephen Hawking has achieved upon publishing a paper, which attempts to demonstrate that information locked inside a black hole is not forever shackled to the abyss. […]

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. […]

Earth is overdue for an asteroid impact on par with the one that killed the dinosaurs. In an effort to keep this existential threat at bay, NASA founded a new asteroid detection program dubbed the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The PDCO is an organization designated to coordinate all of NASA’s efforts to identify and […]

A top U.S. Force general issued a warning to Congress on Wednesday, claiming both China and Russia have plans to take down U.S. military satellites using missiles, spacecraft and possibly lasers. Air Force General John Hyten, commander of the Air Force Space Command, made the warning after pleading with Congress to boost spending to shield […]

The rapper B.o.B. declared on Twitter last month that Earth is flat, claiming to have pictures to back up his outlandish claims. The incident provoked responses from high profile scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who noted such statements made by a public figure are responsible for a strain of anti-intellectualism plaguing the nation. Unfortunately, few […]

A giant fire ball smashed into the Atlantic earlier this month, which was largely unreported on by the mainstream media. Similar events have gone unnoticed in the past. All this in the round, why are major media outlets ignoring these frightening cosmic occurances? The incident took place on February 6th when a meteor exploded in […]

The solar system may have just got a little more cramped. Scientists unveiled evidence on Wednesday of a strange new planet, five to ten times larger than Earth, on the fringes of the solar system. If confirmed, the solar system will jump from eight to nine planets; although, many still want to push the list […]

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 […]

Newt Gingrich’s promise to build a manned moon base by 2020 was met with disbelieving stares during the last presidential election. Comparable remarks made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new boss, Jan Woerner, have provoked similar responses.(1) Hopes for a manned moon base equipped with robots and people are batted as just another crazy idea at […]

Ever since Newt Gingrich promised a manned moon base by 2020 during his 2012 presidential campaign, hopes for a lunar village have been met with chuckles and sneers. Nevertheless, a recent conference including over 200 scientists, experts and industry experts claim a moon base could be a reality as soon as 2030, making manned missions […]

Clusters of stars on the outskirts of the galaxy may harbor extraterrestrial life, argue scientists at the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in Kissimmee, Florida. The astronomers believe regions of densely packed stars, known as globular clusters, could be home to intelligent civilizations. The Milky Way is packed with approximately 150 globular clusters, a spherical […]

Why do we exist? The answer depends on who you ask, really. Those with strong religious inclinations believe humans are the end goal of a divine plan, whereas atheistic materialists believe people are a biological accident. According to a radical new hypothesis purported by theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, however, dark matter could shed light on this age-old […]

Crysoleep – a deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperatures to preserve it – used to be confined merely to the world of science fiction. At the end of last year, however, NASA and SpaceWorks Enterprises unveiled plans to drastically change the nature of space travel, which could make cryosleep a […]