Space
The decision to postpone ExoMars 2020 for two years should be regarded as sensible.
For space exploration and colonization to succeed, we need to overcome taboos, consider human needs and desires.
Within the last decade astronomers have discovered about a dozen terrestrial-sized exoplanets.
Three new colliders will change the game in the coming decades.
The unusual flare came from a binary star system – two stars orbiting each other – in our own galaxy.
The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions.
The US is planning to launch a space force. Many other nations may soon follow suit.
Because of course the man who delivers all your online purchases is delivering people to the moon too.
Throughout history, we find remarkably similar constellations defined by disparate cultures, as well as strikingly similar narratives describing the relationships between them.
There has been a significant advance in planning the construction of the Deep Space Gateway – a space station in orbit around the moon.
Repairing, repurposing or recycling satellites & “space junk” at a facility in Earth’s orbit could help build future spacecraft or exploration outposts.
This will absolutely get the moon landing conspiracy theorists talking again.
For the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Jeff Bezos & Caroline Kennedy discussed the future of space travel, along with plans to put the first woman on the moon.
The Curiosity rover recently discovered methane on Mars, which could be a sign of life. The biologist and genetics professor Gary Ruvkun wants to search for DNA on Mars.
This could be the beginning of a new kind of space race, driven by Wall Street.
The Daily Beast | Virgin Galactic
After years of hype, Virgin Galactic seems to have its act together. Just in time for the boss to join the celebration of the first moon landing by getting his astronaut wings.
Turning tiny spacecraft into starships by coupling them with large light sails – reaching other solar systems in a few decades to study them up close.
Scientists find frozen sperm exposed to zero-g could go where no man has gone before.
