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These Bright Spots Are Alien Volcanoes (Article by Marina Koren at The Atlantic) (More at TheAtlantic.com)

Buzz Aldrin finally comes clean on ‘UFO sighting’ (Article by The Sun at The New York Post) Astronaut Buzz Aldrin says he “never saw a UFO” and recent claims he passed a lie detector test proving he encountered alien life are “fabricated.” Reports earlier this week suggested that interviews...

SpaceX capsule delivers food, experiments to ISS (Article by Associated Press at The New York Post) A SpaceX capsule carrying food, experiments and other goods for NASA has arrived at the International Space Station after a two-day journey. The Dragon capsule and its 6,000-pound shipment were...

Moonrise, edited by Mike Ashley This anthology is subtitled "The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures" and is the first, along with Lost Mars (watch this space), to be published in the British Library's Science Fiction Classicsseries. The publishers have kindly sent me copies to review, but frankly I...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity marks 2,000th day on red planet (Article by Associated Press at The New York Post) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has now marked 2,000 days on the red planet. That’s 2,000 days by Martian standards. A Martian sol, or solar day, is equivalent to...

(Article by Lorenzo Tanos at The Inquisitr News) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is changing as the years pass, and based on NASA’s latest observations, it continues growing smaller in size, while becoming taller and becoming more of an “orange spot” rather than a red one. As noted by NASA, the...

What Does Trump Mean By 'Space Force'? (Article by Marina Koren at The Atlantic) (More at TheAtlantic.com)

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. SpaceX is a private company founded in 2002 by CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk. The...

The crew over at Space-X have a released a blooper reel with some of their best failures. Some of them are spectacular. :wideeyed:

Set an alert: Do not miss The Farthest on PBS Enlarge / An icon of exploration. (credit: NASA/JPL) I've made no secret that the Voyager probes' journey through the outer Solar System was a major influence on my childhood. So I was shocked to find out that I had missed the airing of what...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets ( 2017 ) Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not...

A new LEGO set honors the women of NASA—and it looks pretty awesome Enlarge / Margaret Hamilton holds a LEGO figure of ... herself. (credit: LEGO) A new playset from LEGO will honor four key women in NASA history—astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and...

Hey fellow Sci-fi fans! With the help of some amazing friends, that are also talented artists, I made an indie sci-fi film. I'd love to get your feedback on it in an attempt to continue to grow as a filmmaker and storyteller. If you're interested, the movie is called EARTHRISE and is free to...

Including some documentaries... 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest. 2010 ( 1984 ) A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what...

AI Singularity uses a nano-construct to travel faster than light. Grows a specially designed craft for humans and takes us out of our galaxy and back. It uses a single particle as a drive mechanism which also acts as a navigation device. In the center of the 'ship' there is a specialized...

A movie directed by Daniel Espinosa 2017 - Color - Dolby SR - 2.35 : 1 The movie centers on the crew of a space station that discovers a lifeform on Mars. But the entity proves to be not only intelligent but also dangerous. British release date: March 24, 2017 Us release date: March 24, 2017...

Man has finally done it. We have perfected Artificial Intelligence, an independent being that can think and emote entirely on its own. That can learn and create. That possesses, for the first time, a personal magnetism, just like a human being. And they are called ConneXions… For a little...

China to launch its second “Heavenly Palace” on Thursday morning A schematic showing the Tiangong-2 space station, along with its launch vehicle and the crewed spacecraft that will visit it later this year. (credit: Xinhua) China will take its next step toward a large space station on...

On what would have been Freddie Mercury's 70th birthday comes news that asteroid has been named after the Queen front man. :cool: The asteroid, nearly 500,000 million kilometers away, was discovered in 1991 by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne. It is an asteroid belt between the orbits of...

So lately I've been rewatching Star Trek: Enterprise and had a random thought as a result of some of the plot elements... how exactly would space co-ordinates for planets work when you consider that planets are typically not in a fixed position? :o_O: Now I mentioned Star Trek but the use the...