A new era (Dreaming of Mars, part 3)
Setting up a permanent base on Mars may no longer be a dream. The plans are already there, we only need funding. Will we reach Mars by 2030? In 1951, the famous author...
View ArticleThe Milky Way has a twin
Or maybe even two…scientists have found a group of galaxies that look just like ours. At first glance the Milky Way seems to be fairly typical galaxy system, but if you take into account...
View ArticleViewing tropical storms and other natural disasters from space
Australia receives an average of 13 cyclones a year, while the US might see up to 20. Every one of these destructive storms varies in their life cycles, intensity, movement, size and impacts such...
View ArticleBeautiful wreckage left by a supernova explosion
It is not a pencil. It is not a celestial quidditch broom. It is a beautiful nebula formed 11,000 years ago after the violent death of a star. Astronomers at ESO’s La...
View Article“Blueberries” could be key to Martian life
It’s unlikely that anything still lives on Mars today, but anything that was around millions or even billions of years ago might have left a few traces behind. The Curiosity rover touched down...
View ArticleHubble looks deep into the Universe
We can now see further into the skies than ever before. The Hubble Space Telescope has made repeat visits to a tiny patch of sky throughout the last 10 years, collecting over 2,000...
View ArticleMartian colonists could live in ancient volcanic lava tunnels
Scientists have discovered the safest place to build a permanent base on Mars: lava tunnels created by volcanoes that are now extinct. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a magnetic field that protects...
View ArticleTeaching humans to hibernate
The idea of making astronauts hibernate on long space missions often appears in science fiction, but now it is one step closer to reality. Scientists from the University of Tsukuba in Japan have...
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