Who’s ‘we’ though?
Natural compound found in grape skins, berries, and red wine, could help Mars explorers stay fit
It doesn’t necessarily have to be red wine…
How fast is the universe expanding? We may need to recalculate
It’s one of the fundamental universal features — and we’re still struggling to understand it.
Human outposts on Mars could be sheltered by a thin layer of ‘frozen smoke’
Scientists envision using a very thin material to build a huge greenhouse on Mars.
NASA prepares to grow peppers on the International Space Station
A group of researchers at NASA is preparing for the final steps to launch the Española chile pepper into space in November.
A brief history of Martian spacecraft and landers
For the last 60 years, humans have been sending all sorts of spacecraft to the Red Planet — here’s a rundown.
Space station mold can survive 200 times more radiation than you or me
Researchers plan to employ them as producers of food, antibiotics, other materials for astronauts on deep space missions.
NASA wants the future of spaceflight to be commercial — including the ISS
Could this be the key to ensuring that the ISS lives long and prosper?
NASA plans to send a helicopter drone to Titan in search of life
Titan is of interest because it is the only body in our solar system (besides Earth) that has liquid rivers, lakes, and seas on its surface.
The most energetic light recorded thus far hits Tibetan plateau
Gamma-ray particles trillions of times more energetic than regular light hit the Tibetan plateau.
Astronomers measure frigid temperature of Uranus’ rings
Uranus’ rings are thin and imperceptible to all but the largest telescopes.
Some Martian clouds are made of ground-up meteors
That’s pretty metal.
Earliest merging galaxies observed more than 13 billion light-years away
The early universe was a wild place to be in.
EmDrive propulsion that ‘breaks laws of physics’ will soon be put to the test
Interstellar travel requires some impossible physics.
Mysterious gravitational anomaly in Moon’s South Pole could be a massive metal deposit
It was ‘imported’ from space via a meteorite impact.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Could Help Solve One of the Mysteries of Our Sun
The temperature around the sun is millions of times hotter than the sun’s surface itself.
Researchers spot the first coronal mass ejection outside our solar system — it was massive
It was tens of thousands of times more massive than the ones our Sun puts out.
Pluto’s volcanoes might spew out liquid water, new study finds
Talk about a surprising find!
Astronomers say exploding stars might have forced our ancestors to walk upright
It’s a wild theory — but is it crazy enough to work?
Why the SpaceX satellite fleet could spell major headaches for astronomers
It’s an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.
