It’s a scenario straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, an asteroid is careening towards Earth and is set to wipe out human existence. To mark Asteroid Day, here are four space rocks on a collision course with our planet. The United Nations fears that the possibility of an asteroid smashing into a densely populated area isn’t being taken seriously enough, so it designated June 30 as International... 

In Christopher Nolan’s epic 2014 science fiction film Interstellar, a rogue splinter group of scientists constituting the collapsed remnants of NASA hatch a plan to save Earth from environmental collapse by searching for potentially habitable planets in a distant galaxy. They get there by traveling through a wormhole and using the gravitational slingshot velocity of a massive black hole. Though... 

Despite the crisis in bilateral relations over the course of the past years amid disagreements on a number of global issues, including Syria and Ukraine conflicts, as well as the probe into the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, space has remained an area of fruitful cooperation of the two countries. The US Department of Defense (DoD) will start implementing a ban on certain... 

One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA’s Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA’s return to the Red Planet. The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June 2018. After more than a thousand... 

Russia could see the start of private space tourism in around five years, with participants flying for several minutes to a height of 100km before descending by parachute or engine-powered aircraft. That’s according to Sergei Zhukov, co-leader of the working group of the National AeroNet Technology Initiative. He told RIA Novosti about the so-called CosmoCourse project, which is being developed... 

The Chang’e 4 spacecraft – the first ever to land on the far side of the moon, released landing footage and panoramic pictures on Friday. Chang’e 4 made the historic touchdown on the moon’s surface on 3 January and used its terrain camera to take 360-degree shots of the Von Kármán crater where it had landed, Vice’s Motherboard reported. The spacecraft then released the mission’s Yutu... 

The Chinese robotic probe Chang’e 4 has landed on the dark side of the moon, becoming the first manmade craft to alight on the unexplored surface, according to reports from Chinese state media. The probe reportedly landed in the South Pole-Aitken basin, the oldest, largest, and deepest crater on the moon’s surface. The moon’s dark side remains largely unexplored because its position... 

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos has unveiled the concept of a new spaceship equipped with a compact nuclear power plant. The concept is available on the official website of the agency. Russia has been developing an energy module on the basis of the megawatt-class nuclear power plant since 2010. The nuclear engine is being developed at the Keldysh Center and companies of the Russian Atomic Energy Agency... 

The Russians seem to be dangerously paranoid about perfection regarding their rockets. So one rocket failed in the last 43 years and now they wanna scrap the entire Soyuz rocket family just cause one failed and replace it with a new rocket family called Angara but who knows if this is gonna be any good. Even the liberal mainstream media is saying that Russia should keep Soyuz because scraping it can... 

Astronomers have boldly gone where no man has gone before in announcing that Star Trek’s fictional planet Vulcan is real – and even has a sun just like ours. The planet is twice the size of Earth and has a 42-day-long year. Since the show’s writer associated Vulcan with a real star, named 40 Eridani A, curious scientists and sci-fi fans alike have wanted to find out if there actually is a planet... 

Israel aims to be the fourth country in the world to land an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon, the SpaceIL nonprofit organization announced. If the December launch goes well, the Israeli flag may grace the Moon by next February. “We will put the Israeli flag on the Moon,” said Ido Anteby, CEO of SpaceIL, during Tuesday’s press conference in Tel Aviv, at the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries... 

The following article has NOTHING to do with Flat Earth theory but we want to make it about it because this Flat Earth dumb theory is starting to get a lot of steam lately. Wherever you go nowadays, on Youtube, on Facebook, everywhere you are starting to see more and more “100% proof, the Earth is flat” posts and videos. While only a few years ago there were only a couple of such posts... 

Alien life could exist in abundance in a hypothetical multiverse, which our universe is potentially a part of. This conclusion was voiced by a group of researchers from Durham University and its partner universities in Australia. Sputnik discussed the study with one of its authors, Dr. Luke Barnes, a John Templeton research fellow at Western Sydney University. Sputnik: What has led your team to assume... 

This is pure insanity but let him convince himself by seeing himself with his own cameras that the Earth is a sphere because no matter what you tell him or what footage you show him, he will deny deny deny, say its all fake. Yeah sure, the America fakes, Russia does as well, Europe, China, Iran, for Fuck’s sake even North Korea is part of the conspiracy. They sent numerous satellites into space,... 

Scientists have determined that chemical hazes and clouds are able to impact surface temperature and a planet’s ability to support life. A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have for the first time managed to recreate the atmosphere of nine exoplanets in a laboratory setting “I think we are going to learn a lot about [our] Solar System from doing these experiments....