There's a new space race and it's not between the U.S. and Russia. It's between private companies and it's attracted multimillionaires and billionaires, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. A less likely player is Las Vegas real-estate tycoon, Robert Bigelow, who, at 73, is making the biggest gamble of his life -- not on rockets -- but on expandable spacecraft, large, lightweight structures that inflate in space, a technology that could dramatically change how humans live and work in zero gravity.  

NASA has partnered with Robert Bigelow, who's an unconventional figure in the aerospace world. He's more at home on the Vegas strip than at America's space agency, and he's obsessed with aliens and UFOs. In the spring of last year, he and NASA carried out an historic test to prove his high-flying technology is ready to support humans in space.

When Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket roared into the skies above Cape Canaveral, it was on a mission for NASA, carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station -- food, supplies and Robert Bigelow's expandable spacecraft.

Robert Bigelow: Flying to the International Space Station is a really big deal. It's an experimental spacecraft, which is a big deal. We don't know how it's gonna behave for sure.

Lara Logan: Does that make you nervous?

Robert Bigelow: I'm nervous because I'm a nervous person, I think, and I don't necessarily always expect things to go right.

Bigelow's inflatable was packed inside the rocket's cargo capsule, known as Dragon, which you see here making it's way to the space station. We sped up this video from NASA because it took two days to get there.

It was moved into place, then just over a month later, we joined Bigelow at Houston Mission Control to see it inflate, the last critical step. If it worked, it would make history, the first expandable structure for humans in space.

Lara Logan: So what is it like for you this moment watching this happen?

Robert Bigelow: Severe curiosity as to what's gonna happen next.

Some 250 miles above the Earth, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams injected air. It was supposed to last about an hour. But took two tries over two days.

Finally, it worked. In this time-lapse video, you're seeing it expand in seconds. Close to $300 million and 16 years to get here. But for Bigelow, it was just a beginning.  

Under 80-foot ceilings at his company in Las Vegas, he showed us his next generation plans for outer space. He calls this the Olympus, a mansion for the skies. It's so large the rocket powerful enough to launch it is still years away.

Lara Logan: Is there anything this big that astronauts are working in today?

Robert Bigelow: No, nothing even remotely close.

Bigelow said he can turn this into anything a client wants -- a first-ever orbiting hotel, hospital or inflatable research facility. The B330 is smaller than the Olympus. This is what it would look like if it were used as a space station.

Lara Logan: This can function on its own?

Robert Bigelow: Well, it can function as a standalone destination because it has all the facilities that it would take to keep people alive.

For countries hoping to make their mark in space, Bigelow said this offers an affordable way in. Private industry, he believes, is becoming more dominant in developing space.

Robert Bigelow: NASA and government still has a role because it is still in a sort of embryonic stage. And there will come a time when it's not necessary at all.  And the commercial world will absolutely be the leader for everything in space.

Lara Logan: What about the idea of national pride and what we do as nations. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. He didn't do that for a private company. He did that for the United States of America and it meant something.

"...the commercial world will absolutely be the leader for everything in space."

Robert Bigelow: You bet it did. And that created a period of inspiration that hasn't been matched ever since. So now we're looking for a new era that says, "All right, how can we now shape this to where it's more accessible for a lot more folks at a lot less cost and still have safety and reliability at the same time?"

With no formal training in science or engineering, Robert Bigelow created an aerospace company with scientists and engineers that's achieved what no one else in the industry has done. His expandable spacecraft are the first and only alternative to the metal structures that have housed every astronaut in space for over half a century.

For Bigelow, it all began with growing up in a time of nuclear tests. As a young boy, he would watch the skies over Nevada light up with the bursts of atomic bombs.

Robert Bigelow: Witnessing those explosions in the 50s and 60s, you weren't aware of the ultimate ramifications of those kinds of things but there was a real strong feeling of energy and a secretiveness and so forth and it was cool.

Armstrong: "That's one small step for man…"

Later, he watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon, a moment in history he said still inspires him.

Robert Bigelow: The approach wasn't lightening fast…

But on this canyon road just outside Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow's story takes a turn that some may find, to put it lightly, improbable. He told us this is where his grandparents had a close encounter with a UFO.

Robert Bigelow: It really sped up and came right into their face and filled up the entire windshield of the car. And it took off at a right angle and shot off into the distance.

The story sparked his obsession, and explains the alien looking out from the side of Bigelow Aerospace.  And it made for the kind of conversation you don't ordinarily have with an accomplished CEO.

Lara Logan: Do you believe in aliens?

Robert Bigelow: I'm absolutely convinced. That's all there is to it.

Lara Logan: Do you also believe that UFOs have come to Earth?

Robert Bigelow: There has been and is an existing presence, an ET presence. And I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.  

Lara Logan: Is it risky for you to say in public that you believe in UFOs and aliens?

Robert Bigelow: I don't give a damn. I don't care.

Lara Logan: You don't worry that some people will say, "Did you hear that guy, he sounds like he's crazy"?

Robert Bigelow: I don't care.

Lara Logan: Why not?

Robert Bigelow: It's not gonna make a difference. It's not gonna change reality of what I know.

Lara Logan: Do you imagine that in our space travels we will encounter other forms of intelligent life?

Robert Bigelow: You don't have to go anywhere.

Lara Logan: You can find it here? Where exactly?

Robert Bigelow: It's just like right under people's noses. Oh my gosh. Wow.

The FAA confirmed to us that for years, it referred reports of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena to a company Bigelow owns. He told us he's had his own close encounters, but declined to go into detail.   

Robert Bigelow's quirky and he knows it, but when you have as much money as he does, no one -- not even NASA -- seems to care.

He bought the idea for his inflatable technology from the space agency. NASA had been working on this since the early 1960s -- but when Congress killed its program in 2000, Bigelow seized the opportunity and invested tens of millions of dollars to advance NASA's original idea.

It took him just six years to launch the first expandable spacecraft into orbit. His second followed a year later. But those were never meant for humans.

At that time, Bigelow was still trying to prove his inflatable structures would survive in space. A decade later, with both still circling the Earth intact, NASA felt the technology was ready to be tested for humans. Bigelow still monitors these spacecraft from his own mission control in Las Vegas.

Robert Bigelow didn't start out a rich man. He made his fortune not far from the Vegas strip, with this -- a chain of low budget, long-stay rental apartments called Budget Suites of America. In a time of glitzy high rises, he focused on creating homes for the city's temporary workers. And it paid off. Today, he has 19 of these across three states.

Lara Logan: And made you how much money?

Robert Bigelow: Enough to support the aerospace indulgence and Bigelow Aerospace.

Lara Logan: Well, "aerospace indulgence" is a big term. So do you want to put a figure on that?

Robert Bigelow: We're approaching 290 million.

Lara Logan: Of your own money?

Robert Bigelow: Oh, yea yea.

Lara Logan: So for a man who has had extraordinary success in the business world--

Robert Bigelow: Some some.

Lara Logan: This space business is financially the worst investment you've ever made?

Robert Bigelow: It's atrocious. I mean, we are not in control of our own destiny.

Lara Logan: Who is in control of your destiny?

Robert Bigelow: We're hostage to what happens with transportation, space transportation.

Thanks to innovators like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Bigelow told us reusable rockets -- like this one you see sticking a perfect landing after launching his inflatable -- are making routine transportation a real possibility in the next decade.

When Robert Bigelow's inflatable structure was added by NASA to the International Space Station, humans had never been inside one in space. This test would be the first time. And astronaut Jeff Williams, the first American to experience it.

The interior only has sensors, and for two years, NASA will use them to monitor how this holds up to solar radiation and extreme temperatures.

Lara Logan: How far are you from us right now?

Jeff Williams: Well currently we're over Libya as I recall, but when we started this conversation, I think we were probably over the Atlantic Ocean.

From Bigelow's Mission Control, NASA connected us with Jeff Williams on the space station. As we spoke to him about Bigelow's inflatable room, he was orbiting the Earth at nearly five miles a second.

Jeff Williams: I was very excited to be part of it and to be part of something new.

Lara Logan: And how is it holding up?

Jeff Williams: Oh, it's holding up well. It was a little bit cool, and that was expected. Cooler than the air here, but not overly cold, and had that new car smell that you would expect. And it was very quiet, too.

Lara Logan: What do you think about men like Mr. Bigelow, people with deep pockets, private citizens getting involved in your world, in the world of space?

Jeff Williams: Oh, I'd say anybody that has the means to do exploration and is willing to jump in the game, more power to them. Private enterprise is trying to open up economic doors to space exploration and everybody will benefit from that.

Produced by Max McClellan. Lani Levine and Lejla Radoncic, associate producers.

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The Coventry UFO 'sightings' reported to police - from bright lights to glowing rockets

Coventry has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years

BY JAMES RODGERCATHRINA HULSE-BM

Twelve UFO sightings have been reported to West Midlands Police in the past four years, new figures show.

But the worried callers will have to wait a while longer to find out if we really are alone in the universe because none of the calls were investigated by officers.

Ten of the alerts involved objects seen in the sky, mostly at night, the Birmingham Mail reports.

Three reported seeing lights.

The figures, from a Freedom of Information Act request, were published on West Midlands Police’s website and covered the years 2013 to 2016.

Four calls came from Birmingham, and the rest from Sandwell, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull and Walsall.

Asked how many were investigated, the force said: “Based on the graded response/log none of the calls were investigated”.

No other details were available but Coventry has been a hotbed of potential UFO sightings over the years.

They range from a sighting of a massive tin-can shaped object with gold round the middle, to a glowing rocket steering upwards into the sky.

Many of the sightings come with video and pictures taken at the time.

And while they may not provide CONCLUSIVE proof of extraterrestrial intelligence targeting, the descriptions are certainly intriguing.

The most recent ‘close encounter’ came on August 22 at the University of Warwick.

The witness said: “I went for a short walk around 8.15pm behind my accommodation, i.e. Heronbank West, Heronbank, University of Warwick.

“While coming back, I happened to look at this glowing (because of the flame) cylindrical type object in the sky, steering upwards in a somewhat fast motion.

“I was able to take a picture of it. But when I started taking a video, my phones battery died. My first reaction to that was ‘clearly it’s not a shooting star’.

“It could be a rocket launch though. After gazing at it for about a minute, I walked inside my accommodation building.”

On May 13, another spotter saw seven circular objects above the city through binoculars - they then drew them out for Mufon.

Another sighting - again in Coventry - on March 15 involved ‘two bright lights which were ellipses initially but became circles’.

The witness reported: “I was standing outside work having just finished a shift. A storm had just passed over and a beautiful rainbow was showing. I was taking photos of the rainbow and didn’t actually notice the lights in the frame.

“I took a series of photos to catch as much of the rainbow as I could but after transferring to a memory chip I put them away and forgot about them. I was sorting through old memory chips a few days ago when I found these photos.

“The first one showed a couple of ellipses with what appeared to be a solid centre. This was at 15.24 GMT. The next photo showed two large balls of light low to the ground and apparently in front of the lamp post.

“The time of the photo was also 15.24 so the lights had moved very quickly.”

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30-05-2017 om 00:17 geschreven door peter  

Unexplained Roaring Noises Terrify Nottingham, England

 Brett Tingley

Residents of Nottingham, England were awoken over the weekend to a mysterious noise which seemed to emanate directly from the sky. The sound occurred throughout the night and early morning hours on May 27 and 28 and could be heard throughout the city center and surrounding suburbs. Mystified townsfolk described the sound as a “roaring” or “whooshing” sound and took to Twitter to express their shock and awe:

It sounds like the war of the worlds in Nottingham at the moment. Unknown catastrophically loud noise every two minutes.

Nottingham local Hayley Compton told the BBC that the noise was similar to a giant flame in the sky:

For the last two mornings, I’ve heard a series of noises outside my house in Wollaton which sounds like a giant blowtorch. We went outside and it was really loud, I looked up into the sky expecting either to see flames or a very close aircraft of some sort.

Nottingham police received dozens of similar reports about the noises but have yet to identify their source. On Reddit’s Nottingham subreddit, users began speculating what the source of the sound might be. Some of the more popular theories included UFOs, (naturally), noises generated by industrial machines at nearby factories, or even a hot air balloon. However, the frequency of the noise and timing would suggest that it’s probably not the latter.

There are a few factories nearby, but so far none have come forward as the source of the sounds.

Meanwhile, similar noises were heard around the same time in nearby Derbyshire. With all of the unexplained and strange aerial phenomena being reported in the UK lately, these noises shouldn’t be taken lightly. Sure, there’s likely a prosaic origin of these sightings and sounds involving heavy industry, military testing or the like, but for now, these occurrences all add up to one big English mystery.

 TAGS: anomalous noise, England, mystery booms, mystery noise, Nottingham

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UP CLOSE HD DRONE FOOTAGE OF FOUR NEW CROP CIRCLES THAT JUST APPEARED IN THE UK

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Mysterieuze planeet TRAPPIST-1 onthult wat van zijn geheimen - HLN.be

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Wetenschappers wisten tot voor kort weinig over de exoplaneet TRAPPIST-1. 

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De buitenste planeet van het stelsel TRAPPIST-1, dat mogelijk leven kan herbergen, draait in negentien dagen rond haar moederster. Dit heeft een internationaal team van wetenschappers, ook van de Luikse universiteit, berekend.

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THERE HAD IN FACT BEEN FACE TO FACE MEETINGS WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS FROM OTHER STAR SYSTEMS

The former Minister of Defence in Canada, Paul Hellyer, has come forward to talk about the fact that aliens do exist and humans are not alone. He also went on to say that the nations on Earth have identified an extra-terrestrial presence.

RELIABLE SOURCE REVEALS THERE HAVE BEEN ALIEN FACE TO FACE MEETINGS

It may be easy to scoff at the words of the Minister of Defence in Canada and class him as being plain crazy. However, Dr. Brian O`Leary, the ex-astronaut, and physics professor have made it clear in the past that there is lots of evidence of aliens having visited Earth.

HIGH RANKING PEOPLE, MILITARY, POLICE, AND ACADEMIA KNOW ABOUT ALIEN EXISTENCE

The doctor went on to say that many high ranking people in the police, military, and academia are coming forward to reveal that aliens do in fact exist. Hellyer is not alone in his thinking and beliefs; he is among the many who roam among the highest levels of defense and government.

A five-star admiral of the Royal Navy and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee said that there is a serious possibility that Earth has been visited for many years by people from other planets and it should not be the subject of rubbishing by tabloid newspapers, but it should be scientifically investigated.

HELLYER IS FIRST AMONG G8 COUNTRIES TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT ALIENS

Hellyer held an interview recently, and he gave details about personal happenings that had involved him along with his nephew. Bear in mind that many high ranking individuals from Defence Ministers to Presidents and all made statements about aliens that have been eye opening. Hellyer is among the first to have spoken up from the G8 countries of the cabinet.  

He talked about a conversation that he had with his nephew about the book along with having another conversation with a general of the United States Air Force, in which the general had said that every word of the existence of aliens was true.

OFFICIALS OF US HAD MEETINGS WITH ALIENS FROM OTHER STAR SYSTEMS

Hellyer said that he had called the general on the phone and even before he had been able to identify himself and greet the general, he had said that every word was true and more. He went on to say that there had even been meetings between officials of the United States and aliens from other star systems.

More and more credible people are now coming forward to spread the word to the public, they are not talking about alien movies, they are talking about the real world, a world in which aliens really do exist and have existed on Earth for some time.  

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CHINA JUST RELEASED NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HD IMAGES OF THEIR 2013 MOON LANDING

Chinese lunar mission has discovered new form of space rock.

The Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 3 lander have made an incredible discovery on the surface of the Moon. In its travels across the lunar surface, the highly advanced lunar lander managed to discover a new type of moon rock which has never been accessed by human beings before. Furthermore, the high-resolution camera capabilities of the lander have managed to capture thousands of astonishing images of the Moon that allows people on Earth to see the natural satellite in its full, bleak glory.  

The Chinese launched the Chang’e 3 lander in 2013 and directed it to land in the region known as the Mare Imbrium on the lunar surface. This area was of particular interest to the Chinese scientists as it is believed that water could have once existed in this region of the Moon. The lander explored the region and took thousands of impressive images. Despite the fact that the images were all amassed during 2013, they were not released to the general public until 2015.

Since the images were released, Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has been meticulously trawling through the immense haul of images in order to present them to the general public in an easily accessible and downloadable way. She said that the Chinese were fairly open about sharing their data from the lunar mission and it was easy for her to access the images as they use the same system as NASA and the European Space Agency. However, she said that her task was made quite difficult as she cannot read Mandarin.

The images have generated a great deal of excitement in the scientific community, particularly the ones which depict the newly discovered form of space rock which was not discovered by American or Russian missions to the lunar surface. “China is trying to reach the top tier and show that they’re a major space power, ” said Kevin Pollpete who is a Defense Group, Inc. Analyst affiliated with the University of California in San Diego. “They’re also contributing real knowledge about the moon that we haven’t been able to get before.”

The Chang’e 3 lander is still functional today, but the Chinese have even more ambitious plans when it comes to exploring the lunar surface. In 2017, the Chinese plan to send another lander to the Moon which will collect and return lunar samples to Earth. It is hoped that these missions will expand the bank of knowledge regarding the geology of the Moon. It is also hoped that the missions may even give scientists an inkling about the origin of the natural satellite which has always been a great scientific mystery.  

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29-05-2017 om 17:50 geschreven door peter  

STRANGE STATUE DEPICTING AN ALIEN UNEARTHED IN MEXICO

One ancient civilization that is the most fascinating is found within the American Continent, and it has been from here that some myths and legends that are the most mysterious and strange have come from.

The Mayan civilization was well known for the huge cities that they built along with erecting some structures of monolithic proportions back in ancient times. A lot of the treasures left behind by the Mayans still hold a great deal of mystery.

MAYAN STATUE SHOWS ALIEN HEAD LOOKS LIKE GREY ALIEN

One of the most recent of findings has been that of an ancient statute that has the looks of an Alien humanoid that is holding a human head. This strange statue was found by public workers in Mexico in the Maxtaloyan community while improvement work was being undertaken. The statue seems to show a snake that is surrounding a figure and at the top, there is a head that looks to be the face of a Grey alien or perhaps a reptilian entity.

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It was said that perhaps the statue is a representation of a God that the Mayans worshiped during that time, perhaps with an origin that is extra-terrestrial and that the head may be a symbol of aliens being above humans as creators.

STATUE DATES BACK TO MAYAN CULTURE DURING 400AD

The discovery of the statue has been said to be an important piece in the Mayan culture, and it is thought that it perhaps dates back to 400AD. The head of the statue was pointed out to have oval eyes, and the statue has four inlays of semi-precious stones, including jade, obsidian, turquoise and shell. The discovery of the statue is said to be a fundamental sample of culture from the Mayan period. It has been suggested that more pieces of the same type may be found in the region during construction works and experts are going to be monitoring the work as it takes place.  

PRE-HISPANIC SETTLEMENT MAY BE LOST IF VOLCANO ERUPTS

The director of the museum that is housing the statue is worried that the nearby volcano could erupt and possibly bury forever an entire pre-Hispanic settlement. More than 5,000 important pieces have been located up to now throughout several parts in the municipality, all of which have been put on display in the museum.

Experts at the museum are still unsure of what the new statue is meant to represent, but several theories have arisen from those who have managed to get a glimpse of the statue at the museum. Many have said that the statue clearly shows a Grey alien with a long head and oval shaped eyes, holding a human head, while others have said that the statue may represent an alien deity. 

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Rendlesham Forest, UFOs, and a Faked Document

 Nick Redfern

As a (kind of) follow-up to my article on the controversy surrounding Marilyn Monroe, UFOs, and a questionable document, there is the matter of an equally controversial document that concerns the famous December 1980 UFO event at Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. The most widely accepted scenario within the UFO research community is that extraterrestrials landed/manifested in those dark woods in late December. There is talk of a small, intelligently controlled vehicle moving through the trees, of lights beaming down to a weapons-storage area in the vicinity, of bizarre activity in the woods, and of strange, dwarfish entities seen at close quarters.

Rendlesham Forest alleged UFO landing site

There is, however, absolutely no doubt at all that this particular document is completely and utterly bogus. I mention it, though, in the event that it might catch your attention and provoke a “WTF?!” response. The document is actually a letter, written on British Ministry of Defense paperwork and is undated. It reads (without interruption) as follows:

QUOTE: “Dear [Deleted], As you know, OSI has completed a report on the landing of a craft of unknown origin crewed by several entities near RAF Bentwaters on the night of December 29/30 1980. Interestingly, OSI reports that the entities were approximately 1 1/2 metres tall, wore what appeared to be nylon-coated pressure suits, but no helmets. Conditions on the night were misty, giving the appearance that the entities were hovering above ground level.

“Tape recordings were made on which the entities are heard to speak in an electronically synthesized version of English, with a strong American accent. Similar transmissions intercepted (possible word omitted) irregularly by NSA since 1975. According to OSI, entities had claw-like hands with three digits and an opposable thumb. Despite original reports, OSI said the craft was not damaged but landed deliberately as part of a series of visits to SAC bases in USA and Europe. Reports that craft was repaired by US servicemen or was taken on to the base are not confirmed by OSI.

“Landing is not considered a Defence issue in view of the overt peaceful nature of the contact, but investigations by DS8 are to be continued on [Deleted] authority. Precautionary plan for counter-information at a local level involving [Deleted] and a [Deleted] is strongly recommended.” END OF QUOTE

Well, that’s quite a story! But, a story is all it is.

The document was reproduced in the 1986 paperback edition of a book on the Rendlesham Forest affair titled Sky Crash. The authors were Brenda Butler, Dot Street, and Jenny Randles. In their book, the authors note that the “memo” – sent to the team as a photocopy – was received in early 1984. They added that, “We have investigated it…and our conclusion is that it is a deliberate fake by certain parties, whose identities are strongly suspected by us.” They concluded: “This hoax has clearly been planned to test us or, more likely, to impugn our credibility should we fall for the trick. We call their bluff.”

I recall how several colleagues in Ufology, in the 1990s, sent copies of the “document” to the British Ministry of Defense, asking for an opinion on it. MoD staff did not avoid commenting on it. They were careful to make it very clear that it was what it really is: a hoax. Ironically, because copies of the document were sent to the MoD for comment, they ended up in the MoD’s “Rendlesham File.” And when, years later, that same “Rendlesham File” was finally declassified, people who accessed it saw the fake document in the file! I know from emails I got at the time, that this created a few issues for people who assumed the document was the real deal! It is, perhaps, for this very reason that I know some people still hang onto the possibility that the document is genuine. But, trust me, it ain’t.

 TAGS: hoax, Rendlesham Forest, ufo

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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

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Best Space Stories of The Week!

Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.

Jupiter whirls

The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]

Plus: More Jupiter Weirdness: Giant Planet May Have Huge, 'Fuzzy' Core

Sperm survives space

Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]

See also: Space Babies: Study Suggests Humans May Be Able to Have Healthy Offspring in Orbit

Fix it up

After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]

Clash of the dwarfs

New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]

Mammoth flier success

A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]

Earth science nix

The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]

Plus: NASA's Proposed 2018 Budget Could Push Europa Mission to Late 2020s

Summer on Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]

Listening in

The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]

It's a Phantom

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]

Darkness coming

Get ready for the 2017 total solar eclipse, which will cross the continental United States Aug. 21 — less than three months from now. [Full Story: Countdown to Darkness: Total Solar Eclipse Three Months Away]

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Should We Try to Colonize Other Worlds or Stay and Fix Earth?

As NASA continues to make incredible discoveries about nearby exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, it’s easy to wonder “what if?”

What if we made successful manned missions to those planets? What if there was life on any of those planets, and we could make contact? These questions have driven astronomers and science fiction enthusiasts alike for countless years. And, as planning for manned missions to Mars and the search for extraterrestrial life continue, these questions become more relevant than ever.

However, putting aside all the excitement generated by space exploration, it’s important to ask not only if we can, but if we should. According to acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, sending humans to nearby exoplanets would be a terrible idea. To discuss his opinions the best way he knew how, Robinson expressed himself in his 2015 novel “Aurora.” In this book, Robinson imagines a capsule-type human society that takes an extended journey to a nearby star on a large vessel built to sustain human, plant, and animal life for centuries.

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A Quick Rundown: The Five Closest Exoplanets That Could Potentially Support Life

HE HIGH FIVE

Astronomers have long been seeking an Earth-like planet that could support some form of life. One prominent discovery is the Proxima Centauri b, also known as Proxima b, which was found in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri.

Despite these discoveries, there’s still a lot to learn.

“We know very little about these [types of] planets,” Thomas Barclay, senior research scientist and director of the Kepler and K2 missions, told Space.com.

So let’s go over what we do know about five of the closest Earth-like planets to us.

1. Wolf 1061c

Located in the habitable zone of Wolf 1060 in the Ophiuchus constellation, this exoplanet is 4.3 times as large as the Earth, and is believed to have a rocky surface. It is also the second-nearest known exoplanet to us at 13.8 light-years from Earth, second only to Proxima b.

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Who knew the Scots were such space pioneers?

Kevin McKenna

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Juno sees a familiar constellation from Jupiter

It may look like much, but it's a new view from our solar system

Imagine that you're standing on an alien world, far out in the galaxy. You look up and see a brilliant bed of stars above you, blanketing totally foreign sky. 

But what if you were on a different planet a little closer to home? What would you see then?

A new photo beamed back from Jupiter by NASA's Juno probe, gives us a good idea of what that could be like.

The new Juno image gives us our first view of what it's like to look out from within Jupiter's rings — yes, the huge planet has its own rings — back toward something pretty familiar: the constellation Orion. 

"The bright bands in the center of the image are the main ring of Jupiter’s ring system," NASA said in a statement. 

"The bright star above the main ring is Betelgeuse, and Orion’s belt can be seen in the lower right."

While the photo may not look like much, it represents a brand new view of our solar system.

Juno is the first spacecraft to take a photo looking out from between Jupiter and its rings. 

The spacecraft isn't done reshaping our view of the largest planet in our solar system either. Juno will continue to send back photos showing off Jupiter's cloud tops and storms along with other images of the huge world until its mission ends next year. 

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Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises

Those are just two of the discoveries made by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first few close passes over Jupiter's poles, mission scientists report in two studies published online today (May 25) in the journal Science.

"What we've learned so far is Earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement. [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]

"Discoveries about its core, composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the photographs the mission is generating," added Bolton, the lead author of one of the new Science studies and a co-author of the other. 

Images of Jupiter's north and south poles captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Aug. 27, 2016.

Lifting the veil on Jupiter

The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Since then, the solar-powered spacecraft has been using eight instruments to study the gas giant's composition, interior structure, and gravitational and magnetic fields. It will continue to do this work, barring some sort of malfunction, through at least February 2018, the end of Juno's primary mission.

The mission's name is a nod to the Roman goddess Juno, who was able to look through the clouds to see her frequently misbehaving husband Jupiter, the king of the gods, who was hiding within. Likewise, the Juno probe is peering beneath Jupiter's thick clouds to learn about the planet's formation and evolution — information that could shed light on the history of our solar system as a whole, NASA officials have said. 

Juno makes most of the measurements relevant to this goal during its close flybys, which occur once every 53.5 days and bring the probe within about 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's poles. (The original mission blueprint called for Juno to maneuver to a less elliptical orbit and make these flybys every 14 days, but an issue with two helium valves in the spacecraft's propulsion system nixed that plan.)

GIF showing infrared emission from Jupiter, as observed by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Before Juno, no spacecraft had ever gotten close-up looks at Jupiter's poles. These mysterious regions are beautiful and bizarre, the Bolton-led study reports.Juno has now made five of these data-collecting "perijove passes." The first came on Aug. 27, 2016, and the most recent occurred just last week, on May 19. The two new Science papers report results just from the first few flybys, as well as some measurements Juno made as it neared Jupiter in June 2016.

"When you look over the poles, all of those zones and belts are gone," Bolton said in a Science podcast that was also released today, referring to the striped cloud patterns prevalent at Jupiter's lower latitudes. "You see this bluish hue to it, and there's tons of these cyclone and anticyclonic storms spinning around the poles. It almost looks like meteor craters, but, of course, it's all atmosphere. It's all gas." [Photos: Jupiter, the Solar System's Largest Planet]

It's unclear what, exactly, drives these polar cyclones, some of which are up to 870 miles (1,400 km) wide, or if they're stable over long periods, Bolton said.

"Over the course of the mission, we'll be able to watch the poles and see how they evolve," he said in the podcast. "Maybe these cyclones are always there, but maybe they just come and go."

Juno also has been mapping out the concentration of water and ammonia deep within Jupiter's atmosphere. Data gathered during the first few passes has revealed that ammonia abundances vary quite a bit from place to place — a discovery that surprised the mission team.

"Most scientists have felt that, as soon as you go down a little bit into Jupiter, everything would be well-mixed, and we're finding that that's just not true at all," Bolton said. "There's structure down deep, but it doesn't seem to match the zones and belts. And so we're still trying to figure it out."

Juno's measurements during the first few close passes also show that Jupiter's magnetic field is nearly two times stronger than scientists had predicted. And the probe's gravity data suggest that "there's a lot of strange, deep motions that possibly are going on inside of Jupiter," Bolton said.

"What Juno's results are showing us is that our ideas of giant planets maybe are a little bit oversimplified," he added. "They're more complex than we thought; the motions that are going on inside are more complicated. It's possible that they formed differently than [suggested by] our simple ideas."

Otherworldly auroras

Earth's auroras result when the solar wind — charged particles streaming from the sun — slam into the planet's atmosphere, generating a glow. (Earth's magnetic field funnels these particles toward the poles, which explains the phenomenon's other name: the northern and southern lights.)

Scientists already knew that the solar wind is a major driver of Jovian auroras, and that the planet's rotation is involved as well. But Juno has given researchers a chance to study the phenomenon in unprecedented detail; no other spacecraft had ever flown close to the planet's auroral regions before, Bolton said. 

The second newly published Science study, which was led by John Connerney of the Space Research Corporation and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, details what the Juno team learned about the auroras and Jupiter's magnetosphere from the initial perijove passes. Once again, there were some surprises.

For example, the particles associated with Jupiter's auroras seem to be different than the ones responsible for Earth's most stunning light shows, study team members said.

"We can see that it doesn't work exactly like we expected, or as the Earth does," Bolton said. "We haven’t been able to see particles necessarily going up and down in both directions like we would've expected to cause the aurora. So there's definitely some strange phenomena that we still need to comb through and understand better."

Further close flybys should allow the Juno team to investigate such questions, he added.

"We're at the beginning of the mission, so these first results are sort of telling us some of our models and ideas are wrong and need to be corrected," Bolton said. "And we have some ideas of which way to go, but it really takes some more data to really test whatever theories we put together and see if we're right."

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