Science
Finally! Scientists Find a Place on Earth with Liquid Water But No Life
In recent years research into extremophiles has captured the interest of astrobiologists. The discovery of lifeforms in some of Earth's…
Using Bacteria to Build a Base on Mars
A researcher, whose work is supported by the ESA and NASA, has developed an idea for using bacteria to help…
Water Vapor Was Just Found on Europa, More Evidence There’s Liquid Water Beneath All that Ice
What's been long-suspected has now been confirmed: Jupiter's moon Europa has water. As we've learned more about the outer Solar…
If Astronauts Hibernated on Long Journeys, They’d Need Smaller Spacecraft
There's a disturbing lack of hibernation in our space-faring plans. In movies and books, astronauts pop in and out of…
What Voyager 2 Learned After Spending a Year in Interstellar Space
Only two of humanity's spacecraft have left the Solar System: NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 1 left the…
New Telescope Instrument Will Watch the Sky with 5,000 Eyes
Dark Energy is the mysterious force driving the expansion of the Universe. We don't know what dark energy is, even…
New Horizons Team Pieces Together the Best Images They Have of Pluto’s Far Side
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. For decades, not much detail was known about the erstwhile planet.…
Astronomers See Strontium in the Kilonova Wreckage, Proof that Neutron Star Collisions Manufacture Heavy Elements in the Universe
Astronomers have spotted Strontium in the aftermath of a collision between two neutron stars. This is the first time a…
A NASA Panel Says We Don’t Need to be so Careful About Infecting Other Worlds
It's time to update the rules. That's the conclusion of a panel that examined NASA's rules for planetary protection. It…
How Long is a Day on Venus? Astronomers Make Their Best Measurement Yet
There's a problem with Venus. We don't know how fast it rotates. For a space-faring civilization like ours, that's a…