Futurism | SpaceX Plans to Launch Its Massive Falcon Heavy Rocket This Summer

In Brief SpaceX tweeted a video of a test firing of its heavy duty rocket, Falcon Heavy. The full launch is expected to happen sometime this summer. The rocket has the ability to launch 54 metric tons into orbit. SpaceX has bounced back in a big way since the infamous setback in June of 2015. Since…

Futurism |See NASA’s Posters For The Landmark Earth-Like Planet Discovery

In Brief In order to celebrate the discovery of a seven planet system that holds a plethora of Earth-like worlds, NASA made stunning a poster advertising life on the planet and showcasing the respective orbits of the alien worlds. In case you missed it, the science world was abuzz yesterday. NASA announced their latest exoplanet…

Daily Science |Hubble gazes at a cosmic ‘megamaser’

This megamaser galaxy is named IRAS 16399-0937 and is located over 370 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image belies the galaxy’s energetic nature, instead painting it as a beautiful and serene cosmic rosebud. The image comprises observations captured across various wavelengths by two of Hubble’s instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys…

Futurism |METI to Send Interstellar Messages in 2018

In Brief The Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI) Initiative is planning to a program of directed signaling toward the nearest potentially habitable planets, set to begin in 2018. It’s simply the latest in long tradition of attempts to signal our cosmic neighbors—from the Arecibo message and space probe plaques and records of the 70s, to more…

Futurism |Newfound Comets to Help Ring in the New Year

In Brief A newly-discovered comet has arrived just in time to help us celebrate the New Year—and you might even be able to see it with the naked eye. Meanwhile, NASA’s NEOWISE mission has discovered another curious object, one that seems to muddle the distinction between comets and asteroids, that’s newly-arrived in the Earth’s neighborhood….

Futurism |China Announces New Ambitious Plans to Reach Mars By the End of the Decade

In Brief Wu Yanhua, deputy chief of the National Space Administration, said Beijing aims to launch its first Mars probe around 2020. The ultimate goal is to establish China as frontrunner in the field of space exploration by 2030, the same year NASA hopes to reach the Red Planet. The Modern-Day Space Race Image Credit: CNN…