By: Patrick Boniface
If any astronaut were to be put to the ultimate test, perhaps Jim Lovell could give them some words of advice. For Lovell is the famed commander of the ill fated Apollo 13 mission to the moon. He may be best remembered for turning a...
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Why new evidence of martian life may change the way people see themselves
By: D. Vogt
Astrobiologists are still searching for the smoking gun - the hard, irrefutable evidence that there were once not only the theoretical preconditions for life on Mars (what one might call circumstantial evidence of life), but that primitive life once existed on the surface of the...
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By: D. Vogt
One of the most easily recognized projects in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is SETI@home, the brute-force processing of huge amounts of radio telescope data which hums away, 24 hours per day, on millions of computers around the world, putting up charts and statistics...
Basics of astronomy
By: Daniah Hathaway
Basics of Astronomy There are a few basic items anyone who wishes to get involved in astronomy needs to have prior to their first outing. 1) A Star Map – If you Google for them there will be plenty you can download for free 2)...
A look at new evidence of life on Mars
By: A.W. Berry
Evidence for life on Mars has been mounting ever since astronomers started studying the planet, but actual proof of living organic life on Mars itself has yet to be found. What is clear from the discoveries on Mars is that the planet contains some interesting...
Are there aliens on Earth?
By: Lawrence George
Aliens on earth...grey skinned, bug-eyed, three feet tall, being interrogated by sunglassed goons from the CIA. This footage exists. It's somewhat grainy, to be sure, and the background is a little...dark, but there does appear to be an extraterrestrial being "debriefed" by intelligence...
By: Carrie Eckles
Stories of beings that came from the sky are peppered throughout the mythologies of most cultures, leading ancient aliens to become one of the hottest topics in the field of ufology. The term “ancient aliens” refers to the theory that aliens haven’t just...
By: Lynette Alice
If you ever wanted to go to the moon, there is now a way that it possible - in a manner of speaking. Moonzoo.org launched their newest addition of Moon Zoo on May 11, 2010 which allows anyone to virtually go to the moon...
By: Kevin Manning
A telescope is a powerful tool used in exploring objects throughout the universe. They literally enable us to see the invisible! Telescopes are also a time machine, allowing us to peer into the past. The word telescope was derived from the roots tele, which means...
By: Kevin Manning
Starlight Star Bright How bright a star appears in the sky is commonly referred to as its apparent magnitude. More than 2,000 years ago during the Hellenistic period a Greek astronomer named Hipparchus came up with a system of classifying stars according to their...
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