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 At the rate that planets are being discovered, this picture will likely be outdated pretty q...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.

As someone who enjoys science almost as much as science fiction, I thought I'd tackle the dispute between UFO fanatics and debunkers. The Fermi Paradox got its name from a physicist named Enrico Fermi who basically said, "if there are so many advanced civilizations in our galaxy, where are they?" He makes a good point. If our galaxy is over 13 billion years old, wouldn't we have seen a single prob... 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.

If looking at the Hubble's deep field image full of thousands of galaxies isn't enough to convince you there's life out there, here's another big hint. Space.com has an article up detailing how smaller, rocky, worlds very much like Earth may be filling the Milky Way: "Small planets could be widespread in our g... more.

For a long time, conspiracy theorists have been saying that there was a secret space program, separate for NASA and more advanced. Well now a military space program has been confirmed, and they just gave NASA two space telescopes. They're roughly the same size as the Hubble, but they feature 100 times the field of view and are made of lighter materials. The Washington Post 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.