The Leonids meteor shower of 1833 is one of the most spectacular meteor showers ever and is the source of many UFO sightings.
Category: Space
NASA sues former Apollo 14 astronaut over lunar camera
The US government has sued a former NASA astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, to recover a camera used to explore the moon’s surface during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission after discovered that […] full story
USA almost went to the Moon with the Soviets in the middle of Cold War
When President John F. Kennedy announced a plan to put a man on the Moon in front of a special joint session of the US Congress, in May 25, 1961.There […] full story
BREAKING NEWS: Russian satellites crash near Hawaii
Three Russian satellites being sent into to complete the navigation system GLONASS, left off course and fell over the Pacific Ocean, not far from the Hawaii Islands, on Sunday (5th), […] full story
BREAKING NEWS: Russian satellites crashes near Hawaii
Three Russian satellites being sent into to complete the navigation system GLONASS, left off course and fell over the Pacific Ocean, not far from the Hawaii Islands, on Sunday (5th), […] full story
Ancient Egyptian Lake Bed found by Space Shuttle
Radar images taken from the space shuttle confirm that a lake broader than Lake Erie once sprawled a few hundred kilometers west of the Nile, researchers report in the December […] full story
National Geographic informs Saturn Moon Has Oxygen Atmosphere
An oxygen atmosphere has been found on Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea, astronomers announced Thursday. For one thing, the 932-mile-wide (1,500-kilometer-wide), ice-covered moon is more than 932 million miles (1.5 […] full story
UHOH! Oldest Martian Meteorite Not as Old as Thought
The Allan Hills meteorite, named for the site where it was found in Antarctica, was once thought to contain fossil traces of life. That idea has been mostly dismissed, and […] full story
Mystery Object Defies Astronomical Classification
The newly discovered mystery companion forms a binary system with the brown dwarf, located 460 light-years away in the Taurus star-forming system. The object is too light to be another […] full story
Meteor Fragment Discovered by Farmer
A small chunk of rock believed to be a fragment from a meteor that burst into a stunning fireball over Wisconsin Wednesday night was discovered by a farmer after it […] full story