New: Wednesday, January 11 2017

NASA's newly approved asteroid missions, Lucy and Psyche, will visit eight new worlds in the coming decade, including Trojan asteroids and a metal asteroid.

The new ScienceCast video above, released by NASA in late 2016, describes how researchers are trying to find out how different light spectra can be used to help astronauts both be more alert when needed, and get a better night's sleep. The new study is ...

At a time when NASA earth scientists are concerned their research may be scuttled by the Michael Freilich, director of NASA's Earth science division, said Jan. 10 he did not expect major changes to his programs for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 ...

NASA & DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 100-inch diameter telescope. Image Credit: NASA. For the first time since the twin Voyager spacecraft missions in 1979, scientists have ...

It took NASA's New Horizons space probe almost a decade to trek its way across the Solar System for 2015's historic Pluto flyby – and when it got there, it discovered stunning towers of ice reaching 500 metres into the sky. This is the first time this ...

The United States is guaranteed for the much-anticipated total eclipse on August 21, 2017, and NASA is here for the party: They've put together an incredibly detailed, interactive map, complete with vantage points where people can camp out and skygaze ...

A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, led by Charles Ichoku, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, seeks to shed light on the connection. "We wanted to look at the general impacts of ...

Mars is many millions of miles away, but it's not always as far away as you think. The powerful scientific instruments we've deployed to the Red Planet can occasionally give us a glimpse of our own humble planet from a different perspective. NASA has ...

Right now we know of about 723367 asteroids in the solar system, and we're getting better at finding planet-destroying rocks every day — but we're still ...

HiRISE, short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, is billed as the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet. The technology is aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a bus-size spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet since 2006.

The haunted surroundings of Oliver Cromwell's House will be the setting for a new virtual reality experience. Brave souls can immerse themselves in a thrilling paranormal world every Friday from 4pm. A new level of immersion will take tension and fear ...

For paranormal news fans, modern experimental archaeology is a field that provides incredible insights into the folklore of ancient peoples, and more excitingly, good technical data to support those insights. A British scholar, Dr. Rupert Till of the ...

Tickets for The Paranormal Show are $10 advance at reception at the Community Complex and are also available online through the Kirkland Lake Festival Committee's website. Kirkland Lake's 18-day Winter Carnival begins with the CJKL Carnival Queen ...

Last year, a few days after David Bowie died, I posted the following reminiscence/remembrance to my Facebook page. On the anniversary of his death, I thought I might share it here. It was Friday, November 16, 1973. I was 16 years old. Every Friday ...

A new paper from Columbia University suggests that Tabby's star—the celestial object voted most likely to host an alien megastructure—is acting weirdly because it recently annihilated an entire planet, and the shattered remains of that planet are now ...

Felix Ntukamazina and Onesphore Marondereye were killed in the evening of 8 January in Mageyo area, Butahana district, Mabayi Municipality in Cibitoke north-western province. Local sources reported that the perpetrators of the double crime were armed ...

A UFO sighting in San Antonio, Texas, could provide key information that could confirm a fireball UFO event in Texas, shortly after midnight on New Year's day. In a report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) that pays close attention to ...

Local climate scientists are accustomed to opposition. But if President-elect Donald Trump defunds NASA's climate research as he's suggested, they say, Utah ...