Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley star in Chaos Walking, a film adaptation of the award-wining trilogy by Patrick Ness. A young man and woman on a distant planet called the New World find themselves on the run from a town of religious fanatics in Chaos Walking, a forthcoming film directed by Doug Liman and based […]
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We’re going to the red planet! All the past, present, and future missions to Mars
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says travel to Mars is within reach, with the possibility of having 1 million people living on Mars within 100 years. SpaceX isn’t alone in working toward reaching Mars, however. In fact, there are quite a number of missions, both manned and unmanned, that are currently planned or under proposal from […]
Discovery of 139 new minor planets in our solar system may help find Planet Nine
Astronomers have discovered 139 new “minor planets” in our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. These small objects could provide clues as to whether the mysterious Planet Nine, a hypothesized planet orbiting our sun which has not been directly observed, does really exist. The minor planets were discovered using data from the Dark Energy […]
Planet Nine could be a miniature black hole hiding in our solar system
An artist’s impression of a black hole. ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The concept of a ninth planet in our solar system which orbits far beyond Neptune captured the public’s imagination in 2016, and earlier this year the idea gained steam again when astronomers found more evidence in support of “Planet Nine’s” existence. Now, a different […]
Is Pluto a planet? NASA Administrator and Brian May reignite the debate
A high-resolution image of Pluto taken by New Horizons on July 14, 2015. The image has been color-enhanced to show the different geological features of the surface. NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) caused consternation when it declared that Pluto was no […]
5th Planet Games launches Dawn of the Dragons: Ascension on PC
5th Planet Games has launched its latest free-to-play PC and mobile role-playing game, Dawn of the Dragons: Ascension. In addition, the Copenhagen, Denmark-based 5th Planet Games also announced that the PC game will debut on Kartridge, Kongregate’s new PC gaming platform. It’ll be a one-month exclusive there. Then, on September 30, 5th Planet Games will […]
Spitzer studies hellish planet with surface temperature of thousands of degrees
This artist’s illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet’s surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, with no apparent atmosphere, according to observations by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers have examined a planet that can […]
Planet hunter TESS finds more potentially habitable worlds
[embedded content] NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS has been hard at work lately, discovering a bevy of exoplanets, some of which could be potentially habitable. Firstly, TESS discovered three exoplanets in orbit around the star UCAC4 191-004642. The planets are small and temperate and the system is relatively close to Earth, making it easier for future […]
See the sun rise and set on another planet in these InSight images
NASA’s InSight lander used its Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on the spacecraft’s robotic arm to image this sunrise on Mars on April 24, 2019, the 145th Martian day (or sol) of the mission. This was taken around 5:30 a.m. Mars local time. NASA/JPL-Caltech A pair of images taken by the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) aboard […]
Google’s Stadia is the future of gaming, and that’s bad news for our planet
Daven Mathies/Digital Trends You’d have trouble finding Google’s data center in The Dalles, Oregon if someone didn’t point it out to you. The complex isn’t small – it takes up about 800,000 square feet, just slightly less than 14 football fields — but the unassuming silver-and-beige building doesn’t scream “high tech” unless you already know […]
Public vote opens for new planet name, but Planet McPlanetface won’t fly
2007 OR10, currently the largest unnamed world in our solar system. It’s been 12 years since scientists at California’s Palomar Observatory discovered what is currently the largest unnamed world in our solar system. Having gone with the default title (225088) 2007 OR10 since its discovery in 2007, the three scientists who identified the minor planet […]
Death of a planet: Astronomers discover grisly scene of planetary destruction
An artist’s impression of a planetary fragment orbiting the star SDSS J122859.93+104032.9, leaving a tail of gas in its wake. University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Could this be the eventual fate of Earth? Astronomers have discovered a grisly scene of planetary destruction, with a fragment of a planet being all that is left circling the dark […]
NASA’s Mars Helicopter ready for the Red Planet after successful flight tests
[embedded content] With the planned launch date just 16 months away, excitement is growing among space fans looking forward to the Mars 2020 mission. After announcing the successful debut test drive of the Mars 2020 rover last week, NASA followed up on Thursday with news of the very first flight trials of the actual Mars […]
Mars on Earth: Street View takes us to the Red Planet, sort of
[embedded content] Devon Island is located in Canada’s Arctic and is the world’s largest uninhabited island. With its polar climate and challenging terrain, the island is said to be the most Mars-like place on Earth, and consequently has become a research center for scientists working for the Mars Institute and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial […]
Mars One Ventures’ promise of a one-way ticket to planet goes up in red dust
It turns out that starting a company with the goal of sending people on a one-way trip to Mars isn’t easy. At least, that’s the conclusion we’re reaching from the news that Mars One Ventures — a Swiss company that once promised to establish a permanent human settlement on the Red Planet — has filed […]