Could We Find Aliens By Looking For Their Pollution?
According to some of the astrophysicists at Harvard, there could be a slightly easier way to find aliens out there in the black. We could simply look for pollution similar to our own. Al Gore is constantly reminding us (for the better!) to watch…
The Moon’s Internet Connection is (likely) Faster than Yours
I think most people wish they had faster internet speed. Hell, Comcast being the jerks they are keep throttling mine every time I get within a days of the month’s end. Anyway, our problems could be solved once those moon colonies get up and…
NASA Discovers the Darkest Shadows in the Galaxy
NASA and the University of Zurich announced this week that they have discovered what they believe to be the darkest spots in the galaxy outside of a black hole’s event horizon. The shadows or dark spots are formed by clumps of extremely dense gas…
NASA Wants to Send Plant Life to Mars in 2020
NASA has decided that it is almost time we have life on Mars. The Ames Research Center has proposed sending plant life to the red dusty planet with the next Mars rover mission. The proposal is aptly named the Mars Plant Experiment (MPX). It aims to see…
NASA Finds Strange Dark Square Hole in the Sun
Something weird is going on. The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory has found a coronal hole in the sun that is “almost square in its shape.” There is even a video and it is quite peculiar. From NASA: A coronal hole, almost square in its shape,…
Hubble Photos Capture Formation of Planetary Systems
Researchers have revealed two images of planetary systems forming around their home stars using a new image processing technique. According to NASA, the images are “two treasures that were hiding in the Hubble archives.” The forming planetary…
Meet Kepler-186f: The Closest Earth-Like Planet Ever Discovered
An artist’s concept of Kepler-186f. (NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech) We may finally have hope when it comes time to leave our home planet of Earth because we have destroyed it somehow. 500 light years away sits a planet that is the…
This Is the Clearest Infrared Panorama of the Milky Way Ever Captured
The above picture is probably the best thing I have seen all week (other than maybe the last episode I watched of “Boardwalk Empire.”), The image is the clearest infrared panorama of the Milky Way ever captured. Mind you the image is quite…
Astronomy and Science Highlights For 2013
2013 was an amazing year for science and space. We as a culture fell in love with astronaut Chris Hadfield and our top scientists took us several steps further in space exploration. Included below are some of favorite and coolest things that The Pop…