Could Contact be coming true? It's too bad Carl Sagan isn't around for this. In a publicity stunt to promote their new "Chasing UFO" series on the NatGeo channel, National Geographic is crowd-sourcing a response to the famous "Wow!" signal from 1977, which could be an alien broadcast from somewhere in Sagittarius. To participate, you just need to tweet your message to the aliens with the tag #C... more.

Everyone knows about the famous meteorite that contained fossilized Mars bacteria that should have been a first step to full disclosure, but now new evidence is coming out that the Viking missions to Mars actually found life. The news came out via an article by Discovery back in A... more.

NASA is painfully underfunded these days, which basically eliminated the manned space program and reduced America to a third world country. Russia, China, and other countries are flying humans in space on a regular basis while Florida is struggling to find jobs for 100,000 people displaced when NASA ended the Shuttle Program and their budget was slashed. Yet in these dark times for space buf... more.

Even if you're not a member, the Planetary Society should be something you should pay attention to as a space buff. If it wasn't for them, we never would have seen this awesome image made by xkcd, which illustrates all 786 known planets in the Milky Way to scale. At the rate that planets are being discovered, this picture will likely be outdated pretty q... more.

The last few days has brought exciting news for space buffs, as NASA is receiving data from Voyager 1 suggesting that the 34-year-old spacecraft is about to become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. NASA announced the news on their page for the Voyager missions: "The laws of physics say that someday Voyager will become the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, ... more.

If you missed last week's transit of Venus, you'll only have to wait until 2117 to see it again. Thankfully, there are countless awesome images of it out there, such as this one. But my favorite is the one above, which is obviously how fanboys saw it. ... more.

Another inspirational video has been made to fuel the #penny4nasa movement and once again Neil Degrasse Tyson hits the nail on the head.  I was watching a show on the History Channel the other day called "It came from Space" and was shocked at how much technology came from the moon race alone.  Everything from the oxygen units that firefighters use to thermal blankets to compact electronics are ... more.

Last year, rumors came out that the plot of Prometheus would be heavily inspired by a popular Coast to Coast AM topic in that humanity was genetically engineered by extraterrestrials. Fox came right out and denied that ... more.

From R2D2 to The Terminator, and everything in between - Sci Fi fans around the world have fallen in love with artificial intelligence.  Ready to have your mind blown?  We're not too far off from making the AI in Sci Fi, a reality.  Unfortunately like with most things that could help humanity, AI research is very poorly funded. Recently, I was able to get in touch with more.

This weekend, James Cameron became the first solo diver to reach Challenger Deep and only the third person in history to do it. The whole thing was part of a National Geographic expedition and it was filmed so expect a 3D IMAX release of the footage sometime in the... more.