Speaking at the 67th International Astronautics Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico , SpaceX founder Elon Musk revealed his company’s stunning vision for the colonization of Mars (and beyond) in th...
To the far right of a high-resolution observation of the comet’s surface taken on Sept. 2, the Philae lander can be seen, jammed in a dark ditch, on its side (ESA) Like a child’s toy droppe...
https://medium.discoverynews.com/europes-rosetta-mission-has-found-philae-ec4bee7d5314
The Genesis Project sees humans in the future sending synthesized life to exoplanets to jump-start extraterrestrial evolution (Getty) The search for what we would deem to be “habitable” worl...
https://medium.discoverynews.com/should-we-seed-the-galaxy-with-earth-brand-life-3be4d94f4d4f
The SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (SETI) First things first, it’s probably not aliens. But astronomers have identified an “interesting” signal emanating from a not-so-distan...
https://medium.discoverynews.com/interesting-seti-signal-detected-noise-or-aliens-5d5595a31085
ESO The star closest to the sun is home to an Earth-sized planet with temperatures suitable for water — if any exists — to pool on its surface, a scenario that is believed to be favo...
https://medium.discoverynews.com/confirmed-suns-nearest-neighbor-has-earth-like-world-4bb31f4995b0
ESO What if our planet becomes unlivable and our future selves decide to take to the stars in the hope of starting all over again. Where would we go? Mars could be a good choice as it’s the mo...
https://medium.discoverynews.com/could-proxima-centauri-be-our-interstellar-getaway-7014493bedc9
https://medium.com/media/cf0912ef6281ee539d6b48fb08660545/href What is our probability of finding aliens and how close are we to encountering them? The answer could lie somewhere in these 2 equ...
SpaceX The company SpaceX has a certain mystique: a founder who builds electric cars; rockets that self-land; a privately-funded spacecraft that became the first to supply the International Spac...
https://medium.discoverynews.com/want-a-job-at-spacex-human-resources-has-some-tips-36246680bb46
LIGO/SXS Where DID those black holes come from? This is the question currently being pondered by physicists studying the revolutionary first detection of gravitational waves in the Summer of...
What’s going on with Tabby’s Star? Credit: NASA/Getty edit by Ian O’Neill You’re probably all too familiar with the story of KIC 8462852, a star that’s been the focus of much speculat...