We have flags for everything else on the planet, except for the planet itself. How are we going to tell alien life what we’re about? The power of symbols is difficult to overstate. And perhaps no ...

Swedish university student Oskar Pernefeldt of Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm has created a design for an "International Flag of Planet Earth" that could be planted on planets during future ...

Graphic design student Oskar Pernefeldt envisions a blue and white flag to symbolize Earth's presence on far off planets like Mars. Oskar Pernefeldt Astronauts have planted six U.S. flags on the Moon, ...

There's the kind of planning ahead that means that you carefully wrap your Christmas lights before you store them for the season, and there's the kind of planning ahead that means that you create a ...

For many scientific minds mankind’s encounter of extraterrestrial life is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. So when that day comes won’t we need a flag to represent us? For many scientific minds ...

A design project, in partnership with NASA, may have birthed a new flag to represent the planet Earth, one that pioneers may plant into the surface of Mars on a planned mission for mid-2030. The Earth ...

What design do you think would represent the planet Earth best if we ever got in contact with other civilizations? Designer Oskar Pernefeldt has an idea. He created a white flower-like geometric shape ...

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What's going to happen when astronauts finally land on Mars? In all likelihood, the expedition will be a joint effort between multiple nations and space agencies. So when a perilous explorer steps out ...

Realizing that no self-respecting galactic colonization force can conquer other planets without a proper flag, Oskar Pernefeldt created the International Flag of Planet Earth and showed off how it ...