This week NASA’s Unexplained Files looks at why Jupiter is so hot and examines how NASA helped with a murder case that had gone cold. Jupiter lies out past Mars and is the largest planet in our Solar System. This huge gas giant is over twice as big as all the other planets combined. Being
This special episode of NASA’s Unexplained Files looks at some of the greatest mysteries surrounding our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon. Our moon is the fifth largest in the Solar System and has occupied a special place in human culture since humans first looked up at the sky. The Moon has had profound affect on the
On this episode of NASA’s Unexplained Files – some UK astronomers intercept photos of the moon taken by the USSR, a problem on the ISS could kill the crew and a NASA pictures hints at possibility of life on Mars. A technical malfunction on the ISS leads to NASA advising all the astronauts to don
Tonight on NASA’s Unexplained Files – someone manages to get into Mission Control Center in Alabama and scientists find evidence of an invisible planet. In 1997 Jerry Alan Whittredge managed to get into one of NASA’s Mission Control Centers, despite them being one of the most secure parts of any NASA operation. Being in the Mission Control
Tonight NASA’s Unexplained Files looks at a planet fairly close to Earth that could be habitable. Proxima b orbits red dwarf Proxima Centauri, which at 4.25 light-years is the nearest star to our own sun. According to a recent study the planet is within the habitable zone and so could have liquid water on its surface. Proxima b
Tonight on NASA’s Unexplained Files — did future president Jimmy Carter really see a UFO? According to the talking heads on the show in 1969 the soon-to-be Governor of Georgia claimed to have witnessed a sighting of an unidentified object in the sky. Some have speculated that he might have seen a weather balloon but his sightings
Tonight on NASA’s Unexplained Files – scientists get a glimpse of what could be in store for Earth when our sun eventually destroys it. WASP_12 is a yellow dwarf star around 600 light-years from Earth, in the Auria constellation. Using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope scientists have been able to observe the
Tonight on NASA’s Unexplained Files – have aliens built a massive structure around a far off star, and what is moving on Pluto? Two planets orbit a far off star, nothing unusual in that but these two are circling the star in a very strange manner. Scientists are puzzled that even one planet has managed