Private firms may travel to lunar surface NASA report

A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ...

Alice Eve believes in aliens

Actress Alice Eve says she believes aliens are real and astronauts have seen them. The actress said her "Star Trek Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams was once told by an astronaut that he had come across extra terrestrials in space. "JJ said he sat next to an astronaut once who had told him that he had seen 'forms or shapes' that make him believe in alien life which you know is really scary. ...

NASAs Chandra explores hidden population of exotic neutron stars

A major campaign using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other satellites has suggested that exotic neutron stars, magnetars may be more diverse-and common-than previously thought. Magnetars-the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation-are some of the most extreme objects known in the universe. When a massive star runs out of fuel, ...

Hubble reveals Ring Nebulas true shape

New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ...

Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope

Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ...