Steam-Powered Spacecraft?
Posted on by Matt Williams
The era of renewed space exploration has led to some rather ambitious proposals. While many have been on the books...
4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt
By A. R. Williams
During Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that...
Top Space Stories 2018
Here are some of the most amazing discoveries and space happenings of 2018.
Oumuamua, Repeating Fast Radio Bursts, Neutrinos, Tabby's Star, Kepler and Dawn, TESS,...
Voyager 2 probe moves into interstellar space
Eleven billion miles from Earth, NASA's long-lived Voyager 2 probe,
still beaming back data 41 years after its launch in 1977, has...
The World’s Oldest Pyramid Is Hidden in an Indonesian Mountain
PETER DOCKRILL
When Dutch colonists became the first Europeans to discover Gunung (Mount) Padang in the early 20th century, they must have been awestruck by...
Science Says: A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
By SETH BORENSTEIN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how...
Pluto Should Be a Planet After All
This New Paper Says Pluto Should Be a Planet After All, And Here's Why
BY FIONA MACDONALD
It's been 12 years since everyone's favourite dwarf planet...
Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave
It lacks the grace of Leonardo and has none of the warmth of Rubens, but the criss-crossed pattern on the chunk of rock is...
Five Amazing Things We Learned About History From Ancient DNA In 2018
By Jennifer Raff
Every year ancient DNA research deepens our understanding of history a bit more, and 2018 was truly a remarkable year for...
Noah’s Ark discovered? Researchers ‘99.9 per cent certain’ of astonishing Biblical find
SCIENTISTS may have discovered the remains of Noah’s Ark in what could be the biggest Biblical archaeological discovery of all time.
For millennia, scientists and...