One of the primary challenges faced by our space programs is ensure that spacecraft, maned or unmanned land safely back on earth or on their destination planet.  We’ve seen some creative and successful methods such as the bouncing landing of the Mars rovers.
This new concept described as a literally a “pit stop”, would use a large tube that runs [...]

According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, there have been many visits by to Earth by aliens and each time it was covered up by our government.  He describes them as the the traditional ‘grey’ alien.  Small in stature, greyish skin and large eyes.  Naturally NASA denies that it has anything to do with communicating aliens, looking for aliens or [...]

Saturn’s moon Iapetus has recently come under some scrutiny from the scientific community. New images from the Cassini-Huygens probe seem to show dark splotches of organic mater on the surface of the moon. Unfortunately the article in question seems to be not written by somebody with a scientific background and gives little detail [...]

Yesterday, villages near the southern Andes witnessed a strange fireball near the outskirts of their town. Soon afterwards villagers reported a ’strange oder’, followed by headache and vomiting.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.
Rescue teams and experts were [...]

30 years of images relating to the Voyager space craft. A great visual look at the history of the Voyager space craft and program, completed with detailed captions for each image. Well worth a look.

Voyager 1 was launched Sept. 5, 1977 atop a Titan rocket with a Centaur-6 upper stage. Still operational for [...]

Three months ago the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took a captured what looked to be a ‘bottomless’ pit on the Martian surface. The image taken directly from over head showed a hole approximately 150 meters in diameter, with no visible bottom or sides.
A more recent image clearly shows sides to the pit. Researchers believe [...]