09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
... the entire planet. This could be explained if, when the Earth was a small ball of rubble cobbled together by bits of rock sticking together – a stage known as a planetary embryo – eventually grew large enough so that when it collided with...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
.... Here, a leading group of 3D bioprinting experts from around the world gathered to discuss the latest in growing essential bits of the body in outer space. “For the first time in Europe, all the relevant experts have come...
04 January 2019
Merger with the LMC spells doom for our Solar System
... unhindered for many billions of years to come. However, recent dark matter measurements of the LMC have revealed a bit of a problem. This once dwarf spiral galaxy is actually teeming with the unseen dark stuff – up to twice as much...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... 4000 metres – below martian ‘sea level’ in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The sea-level designation is a bit of a misnomer, as obviously Mars has no visible seas, so it is a somewhat arbitrarily defined level based on elevation and atmospheric...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... that does just that - it literally produces proteins out of thin air. Created in a mini-reactor that looks a bit like a high-tech hurricane lantern, the protein, which is called Solein, is made from just carbon dioxide...
22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
... time by turning the research into a quest. “A few of us on the team are avid gamers, so it’s no surprise we’d try to inject a bit of gaming flair into the project!” writes AstroQuest’s Christian Polson-Brown in an article on the AstroQuest website.
