Fly me to the Moon? Why the world should be wary of Elon Musk's space race
Mar 06, 2017 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Want to fly to the moon? Well, now you wont have to bother with all those years of rigorous astronaut training all you need is a huge wad of cash. Elon Musk, technopreneur, has built a small spaceship called Dragon and if...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX To Fly Two People Around The Moon; Will They Beat NASA To It?
Mar 02, 2017 00:14 am UTC| Technology
At a Monday briefing, SpaceX revealed that two people have already paid the company to fly them around the moon on a Falcon Heavy space rocket flight in 2018. We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached...
Solar system with seven Earth-like planets found around nearby star – here's what they could be like
Feb 28, 2017 07:12 am UTC| Science
There have been many discoveries of potentially habitable planets orbiting stars other than our own over the last few years. Now things are getting even more exciting. Scientists have documented a star surrounded by no...
Feb 24, 2017 00:04 am UTC| Technology
SpaceXs the Dragon cargo ship containing over 2 tons of NASA supplies was finally captured by the robotic arm of the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European...
Organic molecules found on giant asteroid Ceres – why that's a such a huge deal
Feb 17, 2017 01:59 am UTC| Science
Sometimes, I think scientists are just that little bit too modest. A new paper in Science has a humdinger of a title: Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres. It doesnt exactly trip off the tongue and...
If atoms are mostly empty space, why do objects look and feel solid?
Feb 17, 2017 00:34 am UTC| Science
Chemist John Dalton proposed the theory that all matter and objects are made up of particles called atoms, and this is still accepted by the scientific community, almost two centuries later. Each of these atoms is each...
How far they'll go: Moana shows the power of Polynesian celestial navigation
Feb 15, 2017 07:54 am UTC| Science
This article contains minor spoilers. One of the greatest feats of human migration in history was the colonisation of the vast Pacific Ocean by Polynesian peoples. They achieved it thanks to their sophisticated...
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