Earth & Space
![Watch: Flyover Of Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains [Close-Up Video Footage]](http://i1.wp.com/consciouslifenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pluto-surface.jpg?resize=675%2C240&ssl=1 "Watch: Flyover Of Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains [Close-Up Video Footage]")
This dramatic Pluto flyover footage begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia. The viewer first passes over the western margin of Sputnik, where it borders the dark, cratered terrain of Cthulhu Macula, with the blocky mountain ranges located within the plains seen on the right. The tour moves north past the rugged and fractured highlands of Voyager Terra and then turns southward over Pioneer Terra—which exhibits deep and wide pits—before concluding over the bladed terrain of Tartarus Dorsa in the far east of the encounter hemisphere.
It isn’t the lack of sun activity that is worrying those who study the sun, it’s what happens after the solar minimum occurs.
Professor Hawking, speaking at the Starmus Festival celebrating science and the arts, said that humanity should aim to build a lunar base in 30 years’ time and send people to Mars by 2025. He further said that the goal would re-ignite the space program, forge new alliances and give humanity a sense of purpose.
Investigative reporter and ET/UFO researcher Linda Moulton Howe lends stunning evidence about the idea that reality is virtual In April of 2016, at the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate in New York, a discussion was under foot – “Are we living in a computer simulation?” was the question on the table. And though to many […]
Back in August of 1977, a team of astronomers studying radio transmissions from an observatory at Ohio State called the “Big Ear” recorded an unusual 72-second signal—it was so strong that team member Jerry Ehman scrawled “Wow!” next to the readout. Since that time, numerous scientists have searched for an explanation of the signal, but until now, no one could offer a valid argument.
During the depths of winter, Southern Ocean waves are enormous, with significant wave heights averaging over 16 feet, and regularly exceeding 32 feet.
With a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), is going to be, as its name suggests, enormous. Unlike any other before it, ELT is also designed to be an adaptive telescope and has the ability to correct atmospheric turbulence, taking telescope engineering to another level.
Scientists have made some incredible new discoveries on how our minds can literally affect our biology, especially through the study of epigenetics, the branch of science that looks at how inherited changes of phenotype (appearance) or gene expression are caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence. Instead of looking at DNA as the only factor controlling our biology, scientists are also looking at what’s actually controlling the DNA, which includes our thoughts.
Michael Bakich of Astronomy Magazine says this will be “the most viewed eclipse ever.” Don’t miss it!
A new study by the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) poses intriguing questions about inconsistencies in old photos of the moon’s surface.
Dubbed 2014-JO25 and roughly 650 metres (2,000 feet) across, the asteroid will come within 1.8 million kilometres (1.1 million miles) of Earth, less than five times the distance to the Moon. Smaller asteroids whizz by Earth several times a week. But the last time one at least this size came as close was in 2004, when Toutatis—five kilometres (3.1 miles) across—passed within four lunar distances.
Professor Hawking told Good Morning Britain that he’d never dreamed he’d be able to head into space. But “Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic, and I said yes immediately”, he said.
While life in space might sound unappealing to some, Jerry Stone believes it could actually be healthier than planet Earth, enabling people to live longer and, eventually, grow taller.
Trapped inside massive crystals deep in a Mexican cave, creatures have been discovered that subsist on iron, sulfur, and other chemicals. The researchers say the microbial lifeforms are new to science but have been tucked away for tens of thousands of years.
Astronomers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected no less than seven roughly Earth-sized worlds orbiting a dwarf star in the system, it was announced today. Scientists had previously only identified a tiny number of so-called “exoplanets”, which are believed to have the qualities needed to support life.
