May 2, 2016 Listening for alien life: Could new tech detect microbe movements? Spacecraft may one day be able to detect alien life by listening to the sounds microbes make.
May 2, 2016 ‘The Martian’ director Ridley Scott explains his Mars fascination The sci-fi adventure “The Martian” has landed in theaters starring Matt Damon as an astronaut forced to find ways of surviving on Mars solo after being left behind by his crew. The film is based on the popular book by Andy Weir and provides many science based explanations of how he could live on the red planet.
May 2, 2016 New NASA images show Pluto’s moon Charon in stunning detail NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent incredible images of Pluto’s largest moon Charon back to Earth.
May 2, 2016 NASA releases incredible closeup images of Saturn’s moon Dione NASA has released a series of stunning images taken during the Cassini spacecraft’s last close flyby of Saturn’s moon Dione.
May 2, 2016 India's Mars orbiter captures beautiful 3D images of the red planet The Indian Space Research Organisation has released a series of beautiful images taken by the country's Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter. The images reveal striking details of the Ophir Chasma, a canyon that spans about 186 miles of the planet’s surface.
May 2, 2016 Perseid meteor shower gets a boost from dark Moon, Jupiter The Perseid meteor shower is the most widely observed and dependable annual meteor display of the year, and its peak this week has all the earmarks of being an excellent example of celestial fireworks, weather permitting.
May 2, 2016 From a million miles away, stunning NASA images show the moon crossing Earth’s face A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a series of stunning images of the Moon passing the Earth’s sunlit side.
May 2, 2016 Closest rocky alien planet discovered Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet that lies just 21 light-years from Earth — closer than any other confirmed rocky alien world.
May 2, 2016 NASA’s Kepler mission discovers Earth’s older, bigger cousin NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star, the agency announced Thursday.
May 2, 2016 New NASA image reveals second mountain range in Pluto’s ‘heart’ A new image from the New Horizons spacecraft’s Pluto flyby has revealed a second mountain range within a heart-shaped region on the dwarf planet’s surface.
