Science And Space

 N.A.S.A.'s Voyager has encountered 305 objects moving in a non-natural movement.  It appears that they are moving with guidance like a drone-type object. Voyager is more than 8 million miles away.  It is speculated that all the objects are communicating with each other.  It doesn't appear that these 305 objects are just basic space debris as they don't show what standard comments would look like. NASA cannot figure out the propulsion of these 305 objects moving towards Earth. Amateur radio enthusiasts around the planet are picking up blips and different types of static now.  These anomalies are lining up with Voyager's same data being transmitted back to Earth. These blips and static are being rhythmic but not strong. Is this bleed through or intentional?  Is someone out there testing the Earth's capability of how it listens in space. NASA started to encrypt data between Voyager and NASA.  NASA started to look at past data from all deep space vehicles...

  Northern lights may be visible in 15 US States tonight (Rob Schultz via Getty Images) Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Oregon as speedy solar winds fuel geomagnetic storm conditions. Read More

  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Space Force general selected for Golden Dome program U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a plan for his ambitious "Golden Dome" missile defense shield this week, stating it will cost $175 billion and take about three years to develop - but some experts say the price tag could be many times higher. Read More

  (NASA) Trump admin cancels lease for NASA's NYC Goddard Institute for Space Studies Lab It would appear that the latest wave of U.S. federal program cuts fueled by the Trump administration has affected NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) lab in New York City, a branch of the agency dedicated to studying climate change and other Earth sciences. On Friday (April 25), news outlets such as CNN and SpaceNews reported that GISS's lease on office space in a Columbia University building in Manhattan's Upper West Side is set to be canceled. According to SpaceNews, an April 24 email sent to Goddard employees and signed by Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland (the parent organization of GISS), stated that the lease will end on May 31. The news outlet says the lease, which costs the agency $3.03 million annually, was originally supposed to last through August 2031. Read More

  (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope is in 'excellent technical condition' on its 35th birthday The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft population, it is showing no sign of slowing down. Launched in 1990 by NASA and operated jointly with the European Space Agency, the Hubble Space Telescope was a dream brought to reality. All of a sudden, scientists could harness a large, multi-purpose observatory operating in orbit, beyond the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere. Now a household name, Hubble has had a hand in many of the most crucial astronomical discoveries of the past four decades. Read More

  (NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted) Possible signs of alien life found on nearby exoplanet Scientists have found further evidence of possible biosignature gases on the planet K2-18b, strengthening its case as an abode for alien life. But the case is far from closed. Read More

  (NASA) NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth on April 19 NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday night (April 19), if all goes to plan. The journey home for Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner will begin Saturday at 5:57 p.m. EDT (2157 GMT), when their Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocks from the ISS' Rassvet module. The trio will touch down on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, just a few hours later, around 9:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT and 6:20 a.m. local Kazakh time on April 20). NASA will webcast the homecoming live, and Space.com will carry the agency's feed if it's made available. Read More

  (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, Samuel Crowe (UVA), John Bally (CU), Ruben Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), Ian Heywood (Oxford)) Extreme magnetic fields preventing stars from being born Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, such as carbon and oxygen. Yet, despite decades of research, aspects of star formation are as mysterious as the dense, dark clouds of gas in which baby stars are embedded. The James Webb Space Telescope's observations of Sagittarius C (Sgr C), a star-forming region at the Milky Way's heart that appears to form fewer stars than expected, are shedding new light on some of these enigmatic processes. Read More

  NASA rover spots hundreds of 'spider eggs' on Mars — and scientists have no idea how they got there On March 11, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars. Read More

  'Woolly devil' flowers in Texas desert are the 1st new plant genus discovered in a US national park in almost 50 years A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by climate change. Read More

  (Isar Aerospace) 1st orbital rocket from Europe explodes seconds into flight Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Europe's Andøya Spaceport in Norway, but suffered an anomaly 18 seconds into the flight. Dramatic video from the launch shows the rocket tumbling just seconds into flight before plummeting to the icy ground below and exploding in a brilliant fireball. Read More

  (Yuri Cortez/Getty Images) Don't miss the solar eclipse on March 29! Happy Friday, Space Fans! Well, the day is nearly here: the first solar eclipse of 2025 is SATURDAY and we've got what you need to see it. The March 2025 solar eclipse will be a partial solar eclipse of the sun, but only for those in the visibility path across the U.S., Canada and Europe. Here's where and when to see the eclipse! Read More

  (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani) Is the 'Blaze Star' about to go boom at last? After auroras on Neptune, we wanted to go BIG for this next story, which brings us to T Coronae Borealis, the so-called Blaze Star that has been on the cusp of exploding for awhile now. Today, March 27, is the first explosion prediction day from a new study watching its behavior. But if it doesn't blow, there's a back up date. Read More

  Ancient Egyptian pyramids, thought to contain only the elite, may also hold low-class laborers At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid tombs. Read More

  (Daniel Puchalski) Mysterious blue spiral spotted over European skies A strange blue spiral lit up the skies over Europe on Monday night (March 24), causing residents of the U.K. and other European countries like Croatia, Poland, and Hungary to flood social media with photos and videos, along with requests to identify this weird light. Some users even speculated that the spiral could be the work of aliens! Read More

  Simple blood tests could be the future of cancer diagnosis Around four years ago, now 77-year-old John Gormly went for what was supposed to be a routine blood test. But the results were life-changing.   The test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, which a colonoscopy later confirmed was Stage 2, meaning the cancer had spread through the wall of the colon but not to his lymph nodes.   "I thought [my doctor] was wrong," Gormly, CEO of a construction company near Newport Beach, California, told Live Science. "I go, 'Nah, I don't feel anything.' But there it was. It was real; the colonoscopy showed it."   Gormly was one of the first patients to take a newly approved test called Shield, which its makers say can detect colon cancer from a blood sample . After his diagnosis, Gormly had surgery to remove the tumor and was back at work within 10 days.   "Liquid biopsies" like the one that detected early cancer for Gormly are now c...

  The Launchpad (NASA) NASA Starliner astronauts return to Earth today! It is landing day at last, Space Fans! Nine months after launching on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station, NASA's Boeing Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth with two Crew-9 astronauts to end what became an ordeal in space. See what time they'll return and how to watch live here! Read More (NASA) Timeline: How 10 days led to 9 months in space It's been a long time since NASA's Starliner astronauts launched into space. Long enough for Suni Williams to take command of the ISS, take two spacewalks with Butch Wilmore and perform many science experiments. Here's a look at how their 10-day test flight transformed into a months long odyssey ahead of landing. Read More Starliner and Crew-9 live landing mission updates ...

  The Launchpad (NASA) Watch Starliner astronauts finally leave ISS tonight Hey, Space Fans! We're starting this week off with something we've all been waiting for a long time: The "stranded" Boeing Starliner astroanuts are finally beginning their trip home. Tonight, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, alongside NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Aleksandr Gorbunov, will depart the ISS and prepare for their trip home. Williams and Wilmore are 9 months into a planned 10-day mission due to Boeing Starliner capsule issues. Read More (MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) How did Earth get such a strange moon? There's a lot going on with the moon. For starters, it exists, which is weird in its own way when compared to Mercury and Venus. Mars does have two moons, but they're really just captured asteroids. Earth is the only rocky planet in the solar ...

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  Scientists realize 'Viking' shipwreck is something else entirely A more than 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden isn't a Viking vessel after all, scientists have found.