April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
... full knowledge of the danger and potential consequences. If someone has a plan to send one hundred people to live stranded in Antarctica, and the plan notes that the Antarcticans might develop a culture that sees morality pertaining...
27 November 2015
Space Elevator Could be Made out of Diamonds
... ever produced by man. And yet, strong as they are, each of these nanothreads is 20,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. The material's unique characteristics (incredibly light yet strong) may make it an ideal material for...
25 February 2019
Scientists create DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life
When scientists finally get to sample alien life, what will they see? Will their genetic structure mimic ours or will it be wildly different? How different can DNA be? It turns out that the familiar DNA double helix structure that is essential for ...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
..., then over time they collected themselves into clusters, then super-clusters until eventually great long strands of gas spread throughout the cosmos, forming web-like structures as it grew. Now though, it is generally believed that...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... Red Planet with a robotic probe, following the unsuccessful Yinghuo 1 Mars-exploration spacecraft. Yinghuo-1 was left stranded in Earth orbit after the Russian Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft it was hitching a ride with, stalled...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... has promoted many comments and much concern on social media, including some suggesting the Starliner crew is stranded in space. But this is far from true because in the event that NASA decided not to risk a crewed...
