According to many people all over the world, man has never set foot on the moon. Although this may look like a ridiculous statement to make, there are countless theories and so-called proofs that what people saw on TV was not the actual Moon landing, but an elaborate hoax filmed in a studio by the one and only Stanley Kubrick, the man that redefined the Sci-Fi genre with his 2001: A Space Odyssey, a revolutionary movie that was released one year...
This is the second interesting information released this month from NASA's camp, after the one that suggested the probable finding of life forms in space. An article posted on NASA's website suggests that a Lunar base could be established in the future, and that the inside of the Moon could hold better conditions than its surface. Since Apollo 17, a lunar mission that took place in 1972, NASA has never sent humans to the Moon. However, the U.S....
Kevin Hand is a NASA astronomer that believes in the existence of extraterrestrial life. More than that, he estimates that we'll find some sort of life outside of our Solar System in the following 20 years. This bold statement was made at a public discussion held in Washington at the beginning of this week, when NASA presented its program to search for life forms in the universe by using current and future means (telescopes). Charles Bolden, the...
Few days ago, NASA announced that astronomers have detected a mysterious X-Ray signal coming from the Perseus Cluster, located 240 million light-years away from Earth. The unidentified signal is a strong X-ray discharge and it was discovered using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. According to a theory, it may have been produced by the decomposition of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle that's considered a strong...
Last week, NASA announced the discovery of the planet Kepler-186F, the first exoplanet with the same size as Earth, located in the habitable zone of its star. In theory, there could be liquid water and even life forms on this second Earth, and if we want to go the extra mile we can even presume that these life forms are intelligent. But the experts believe that the existence of life on other planets is not such a good sign for our...
Yesterday, a non-profit organization that's focused on studying celestial bodies, released an animation that illustrates the number of asteroid collisions on Earth from the past 13 years. You will be amazed (and possible frightened) to learn that in that specific time frame, our planet was hit by many asteroids, some of them creating an impact with a magnitude that's similar to the Hiroshima bomb released in 1945 (15 kilotons). The non-profit...
Every time I think of those poor astronauts wondering on Earth's orbit for months, eating their tasteless processed food rations, without a real connection to anything organic, I really feel their pain and the trouble they go through in their mission. Fortunately, NASA just announced a new project shipped to ISS via SpaceX Dragon capsule that could offer fresh food to hundreds of miles away from Earth. The new system of growing vegetables in...
On March 17, 2014, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics released a paper that announced the finding of the first evidence of cosmic inflation (the fast expansion in early cosmic history), consequently confirming the connection between general relativity and quantum mechanics. In other words, it forwards additional arguments to sustain the theory of the Big Bang. The discovery of the primordial gravitational waves,...
Back in the summer of 2012, our planet was on the edge of being hit by one of the largest coronal mass ejection ever encountered by scientists. Two huge solar explosions released an amount of energy equivalent to a billion hydrogen bombs and dangerous particles were carried by the solar wind to the Earth's orbit at a speed of 2,000 kilometers per second. The two coronal mass ejections occurred simultaneously on July 23, 2012. Fortunately for us,...
The question "Are we alone?" was posed many times over the history of mankind, but so far we had no real method to find an answer for it. So far, astronomers were searching (without luck) for planets with a dense atmosphere that prevents the evaporation of water into space, thus providing life supporting conditions that are similar to those on Earth. Now, a team of scientists that work in the field of astrobiology created a method involving a...
This year, the movie Gravity just won 7 awards during the Oscar ceremony - The 86th Annual Academy Awards. With this special occasion, NASA decided to share with us a collection of real images that depict the life of astronauts in space, how they work and how they live. Indeed, the U.S. agency has shared 31 stunning photos featuring real astronauts working in the vacuum and solitude of space, just like the characters from the movie. As a bonus,...
Ever since man set first foot on the Moon, we entered the age of space exploration and space missions. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is responsible for most of these projects, including the famous Apollo program that was responsible for the first Lunar landing back in 1969. But according to RedOrbit magazine, their budget has its limits, and recent budget cuts made their job even more difficult. In 2010, the U.S....
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