Martian Canal

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Taxi drivers are connected to the hive mind of humanity. Hence, they have amazing insight into important questions regarding life in the universe.

How realistic is one of Dune's most famous pieces of speculative technology, the Stillsuit, and could something like it help us survive on a similarly desert world next door?

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Seeing things like a dragon in a patch of clouds or a face on the moon is called pareidolia. Use these photos to test your abilities to recognize patterns. The post Seeing things that aren't there? It's called pareidolia first appeared on EarthSky.

Ever since Percival Lowell believed that he may have charted canals on Mars, and even before, people have been fascinated by the idea of life on the Red Planet. From H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burrough...

Our galaxy consists of 400,000,000,000 stars. Could one of them hold alien life?

This image offers a glimpse into the frozen canyons of Pluto.

In August 2012, the Curiosity rover landed in the Gale Crater on Mars and began exploring the surface for indications of past life. The rover made some profound discoveries during that time, including evidence that the crater was once a huge lakebed and detecting multiple methane spikes. The rover has also taken images of several interesting terrain features, many of which went viral after the photos were shared…

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The human brain loves seeing patterns, even when they aren't really there

From winged humanoids on the moon to supposed extraterrestrial corpses from Peru, alien hoaxes are usually pretty stupid—yet they continue to dupe us. Here's why.

Throughout the 20th century, multiple proposals have been made for the crewed exploration of Mars. These include the famed "Mars Project" by Werner von Braun, the "Mars Direct" mission architecture by Robert Zubrin and David Baker, NASA's Mars Design Reference Mission studies, and SpaceX's Mars & Beyond plan. By 2033, two space agencies (NASA and the CNSA) plan to commence sending crews and payloads to the Red…

In the 1940s and 50s reports of "flying saucers" became an American cultural phenomena. Sightings of strange objects in the sky became the raw materials for Hollywood to present visions of potential threats. Posters for films, like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers from 1956 illustrate these fears.  Connected to ongoing ideas about life on the Moon, the canals on Mars, and ideas about Martian Civilizations, flying…

New research says the water world may harbor enough phosphorus to create DNA... and teeth.

Gregor Mobius pictures radically different views of the same universe.

On this date in 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, searching for a 9th planet, discovered Pluto. This opened the door to further exploration of the outer solar system.