What is the Black Knight Satellite?

More footage from Russia of the mysterious “Black Knight” satellite dangerously close to the ISS. What exactly is this object? Is it an unmanned satellite, or an intelligently piloted craft? Some theorists claim that it’s been orbiting our planet for the past 13,000 years, but to be honest there is no proof of that. The […]

NASA Working On Propulsion System That Can Get Probes To Mars In 3 Days

We’ve achieved space exploration on an unimaginable scale compared to 100 years ago. But despite these advances, one thing is clear that a major setback going forward is the slowness of our space craft. Although we can accelerate particles to near the speed of light in a laboratory setting, our fastest vessels can barely get […]

Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk plunges through atmosphere over Atlantic

The biggest fireball since the meteor that rocked Chelyabinsk in Russia has fallen over the Atlantic, Nasa has revealed. The event, which happened on February 6 at 13:55 GMT, seems to have gone unnoticed at the time as it burned up about 30km above the ocean, 620 miles off the Brazilian coast. The energy released […]