Is this a smart, stragegic way to look for extraterrestrials? Apparently there is a team with a cost effective and potentially efficient idea: Even with about 2,000 confirmed planets found outside the solar system, we know so little about them. What are they made of? Are their atmospheres habitable? What weather exists? It will take…
NASA And This Company Join To Make A “Tractor Beam”
Uhh..Is this a good idea? We’ve all seen science fiction movies about tractor beams pulling in space ships and the like. Now, they may actually begin to attempt on a small scale to make an actual tractor beam: When Arx Pax unveiled its “hoverboard” last year, we had a hunch that this was but the…
It’s 13.2 Billion Light Years Away [Video]
They broke the record again and detected a quasar 13.2 billion . This beat the previous record of one that was estimated to be 12.9 billion light years away: A team of astrophysicists using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has successfully measured the farthest galaxy ever recorded and more interestingly, captured its hydrogen…
Starshades Could Help Us In The Search For Aliens
Have you heard of these? The search for galaxies, quasars and other incredibly bright formations has taken leaps forward with The Hubble Telescope. However, detecting the exoplanets that may orbit stars within galaxies are difficult to detect due to the brightness of the stars they would likely be orbiting around. So, this team has an…
Will They Be Able To Make It An Entire Year?
Some people think this is a solid experiment and others are skeptical on its importance. But preperation is key for any serious endeavor, space, personal, learning a new skill etc. On Friday (Aug. 28), six scientists left the comforts of civilization, set to be gone for an entire year. Their mission will simulate what it…
They Found The Closest Exoplanet: Alpha Centauri Bb
Alpha Centauri is the closest known star system to us at just over 4 light years away. Perhaps we should be spending more effort examining that area for signs of life. And just a few years ago in 2012 they made a cool discovery: The closest star system to our own is now confirmed to…
They Found An Enormous Ice Sheet On Mars
The Mars mysteries keep on coming. At this point they are finding so many unexplainable terrain anomolies, it makes one really wonder about the history of this planet. Here is more on the discovery of something bizarre: Ali Bramson knew she was onto something when she spotted a “crazy looking crater” on the face of Mars.…
NASA Test Fires A Rocket…Made With 3D Printed Parts
Who would have ever thought that technology and manufacturing would progress to this level? Apparently NASA 3D printed some parts and actually used them in a test rocket: Watch a video that puts you in the test stand. This video gives you a blazing view of the one of the first tests of a 3-D…
10 Unusual Planets That Could Host Alien Life
With super telescopes like Hubble and the European Southern Observatory, astronomers have been able to detect things that were previously impossible. Many exoplanets have now been spotted and this video lists the 10 that we think are most likely to have alien life. Now of course, life could exist in other forms than we understand,…
Neutron Star Is Insanely Bright And They Can’t Explain It
maybe their “theories” are wrong Neutron stars are an interesting phenomenon in that they are extremely dense. And they have recently found one that is so bright that they can’t explain it with current theories. This article gives some background into the findings and history of studying these objects: Since the 1970s, astronomers have been detecting…
Top 5 Strangest Photos From Mars
For some reason the planet Mars seems to generate the most amount of theories and speculation in terms of strange activity or possible life out of any planet in the solar system. The following video lists 5 of the strangest sightings reported from this planet: Presenting the five most mysterious pictures from Mars, including a…
Could Forms of Life That we Don’t Understand…
Mars is getting stranger by the day…or maybe it always was. The search for organisms on other planets and asteroids has been the focus of so many research projects, debates and theories. However, we may only be looking for evidence that is similar to how we understand organisms. Here is a new perspective: It is…
Galaxies Change Their Structure As Time Progresses
Apparently galaxies may have evolved during their lifetimes a bit differently than we had previously thought, according to this study: A team of international scientists, led by astronomers from Cardiff University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, has shown for the first time that galaxies can change their structure over the course of their lifetime. By…
The Waves On Titan Are Missing
This is a fascinating video about the huge moon Titan. Apparently its composition should lead to a different liquid formation than we would expect to see on its surface: Saturn’s giant moon Titan is dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and seas that bear an uncanny resemblance to bodies of water on Earth. Strangely, though, Titan’s lakes…
Where Did The Moon Come From?
I bet a lot of science and space fans didn’t know about this theory. In this video they discuss recent evidence from the last century leading to a particular conclusion. Where did the moon come from? What is it made of? And what events created the distinctive pattern of light and dark on its surface?…
Exoplanets And Possible Alien Worlds [Video]
There has been a lot of discussion lately about planets that could harbor intelligent life, especially with the recent discovery of kepler 452-b. And this mini documentary examines this area of search in the universe: Have you ever wondered about planets in other solar systems? Have you ever thought about the possibility of life elsewhere…
5 Strange Sounds From Outer Space
We often gaze at the stars and galaxies in the visual spectrum but what about sound that we’ve heard? This video is an absolutely fascinating list of 5 of the weirdest sounds we’ve heard from outer space, and some quite recently. The S.E.T.I. program in particular started a few decades agoe and may be most…
Cosmic Energy Examined From Super Cold To Extremely Hot [Video]
This video does a great job of putting heat and cold into a universal perspective with the prinicples of E = mc2: What’s the hottest place in the universe? What’s it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, from the coldest and bleakest reaches of our galaxy on…
Did You Know About These Cosmic Particles?
Who would have known this? Apparently they discivered some very unusual particles in a place where you might not expect…way beneath the ice on one of our poles: Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these…
Strong Evidence Of Life On This Comet
This may be arguably one of the most exciting findings in the search for extraterrestrial life: In a series of recently published papers in the journal Science, researchers have revealed some of the initial findings from the probe Philae’s landing on the comet 67P, including numerous organic compounds on the surface that are known to…
