Do we need a lunar building code to build moon bases safely?
GOLDEN, Colorado – Here on Earth, centuries of accumulated engineering knowhow, hard-learned lessons, and societal evolution have shaped…
Hidden geological process offsets carbon emissions from thawing permafrost
A study published in Nature suggests that thawing permafrost may have an unexpected effect on the carbon cycle.…
Boeing tests quantum protocol in Q4S payload prior to launch
Engineers at Boeing demonstrated a key quantum protocol during ground testing of the payload for the Q4S mission,…
The Sky Today on Saturday, June 20: Libra’s Ghost Cluster
Back to Article List The globular cluster NGC 5897 glows in Libra the Balance, a ghostly twin to…
Asteroids may have helped create the conditions for life on early Earth; scientists find |
For decades, asteroid impacts have been seen as forces of pure destruction, the kind that wiped out the…
The longest continuous spaceflight in history — 437 days aboard the Russian Mir space station, completed by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov in 1995 — was specifically conducted to prove that a human being could survive a round-trip mission to Mars, in a piece of human endurance that has been waiting unused on a shelf for three decades
The record sits at the top of every list of human spaceflight endurance achievements, has been there since…
Earth’s First Land Animals May Never Have Been Amphibian-Like After All
Paleontologists from the Field Museum of Natural History have described the fossilized remains of baby embolomeres, crocodile-like predators…
A body on the edge of our Solar System has an atmosphere – and scientists still aren’t sure how that’s possible
Astronomers have discovered signs of a thin atmosphere surrounding an icy body beyond the orbit of Neptune –…
Israeli study unlocks 4,000 years of climate change and human adaptation
Cylinders of ancient mud drilled from the Carmel Coast in northern Israel have revealed how ancient human societies…
Enceladus, a tiny Saturnian moon only about 500 kilometres wide, is actively venting water vapour and ice grains into space from a salty ocean hidden beneath its crust — and modelling suggests that ocean may have remained warm and chemically active for geological timescales, perhaps long enough for life to have had a chance to emerge.
Enceladus is small, only about 500 kilometres across, a moon you could lose among Saturn’s dozens. It is…
‘It’s Russian roulette’: alarm as Europe backs critical minerals mines in water-stressed regions | Mining
The European Commission plans to rewrite the EU’s flagship water protection law to speed up the development of…
In late 2023, Voyager 1 began sending unreadable data from interstellar space. NASA engineers eventually traced the fault to corrupted memory in one of the probe’s computers, rewrote part of its 46-year-old software, transmitted the fix across more than 24 billion kilometres, and waited roughly 45 hours for confirmation that the patch had worked.
In late 2023, Voyager 1 stopped making sense. The spacecraft was still transmitting from interstellar space, but the…