01 March 2019
Crew Dragon gets ready for first liftoff
..., the only life-sized object on board is a mannequin called "Ripley," named after Sigourney Weaver's character in the "Alien" films. Ripley is an anthropomorphic test device, so is not there simply for show or for promotional purposes. Instead this...
12 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
... Big Island of Hawaii hiding under it. The anomalous mass, which instantly conjures up conspiracy theories involving hidden alien bases, was discovered by researchers measuring subtle changes in the strength of gravity around the Moon. The data...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... the possibility that fungi, in general, may be hyper-extremophiles, capable of colonising Mars, Venus, and the harshest of alien environments."
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... only inhabitant onboard was a life-sized mannequin called "Ripley," named after Sigourney Weaver's character in the "Alien" films. Boeing aim to send a similar anthropometric test dummy on their test flight, but this one is called...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
.... The planet watcher will make these high-precision observations by measuring the minuscule brightness changes as the alien world passes in front of their host star; a technique known as the Transit method - a highly successful method that...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... how they appear in different places than we see from Earth. “It’s fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien sky, unlike what we see from Earth,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest...
