Who Needs $20 Million? Moon Race Still On Without Google's Prize

Google called off its race to the moon weeks ago, when it became clear no private explorer would complete the trip by the March 31 deadline. That won't stop at least three teams from Israel, Japan and the U.S., who say their missions are a still a go, with or without the contest's $20 million prize.

"We are full steam ahead," said Yigal Harel, program director at SpaceIL, the Israeli team that plans a soft-landing on the moon later this year.

When the Lunar XPrize was introduced in 2007, interest in moon exploration was at a low. No government had landed there since the 1970s and no businesses had seriously contemplated it. But the contest has had its intended effect, jump-starting a cottage industry of would-be space explorers, even if no one emerged to take Google's money. Last year, overall investment in space startups by venture capitalists climbed to a record $2.8 billion, according research firm CB Insights

Alien Life In Our Solar System? Study Hints At Saturn's Moon

The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as archaeans found in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, they reported in the science journal Nature Communications.

Sun Light Through The Pillar Of Shiva Temple In Puttur

Sun Light Through The Pillar Of Shiva Temple In Puttur In Karnataka, India.

Giant Replica Of Moon Unveiled At Kolkata's Victoria Memorial

The 'Museum of the Moon' is a project of the British Council, supported by the Ministry of Culture. It has been put on display at the Victoria Memorial Hall in the city for the weekend visitors. The 23-feet-wide replica of the moon is half a million times smaller than the real moon.

Scientists Discover The First Planets Outside The Milky Way

The truth is out there. And past that is a cluster of planets 3.8 billion light-years away, a recent discovery that if confirmed could extend the boundary of what we know about the universe.

Using data from a NASA X-ray laboratory in space, Xinyu Dai, an astrophysicist and professor at the University of Oklahoma, detected, for the first time ever, a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The mass of the planets range in size from Earth's moon to the massive Jupiter, our solar system's biggest planet.

There are few methods to determine the existence of distant planets. They are so far away that no telescope can observe them, Dai told The Washington Post. So Dai and his postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Guerras relied on a scientific principle to make the discovery: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Australian open 2018 Men's Final

Roger Federer wins 2018 Australian Open beats Marin Cilic 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 3-6 6-1.A sixth Australian Open title, a 20th Grand Slam victory for the 36-year-old Swiss.

Super Blue Moon Eclipse

Birds take flight as a blue moon, supermoon and a total lunar eclipse sets behind the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando