Browsing Tag Space
The Curiosity rover recently discovered methane on Mars, which could be a sign of life. The biologist and genetics professor Gary Ruvkun wants to search for DNA on Mars.
This could be the beginning of a new kind of space race, driven by Wall Street.
“If we are living in a simulation, then the cosmos that we are observing is just a tiny piece of the totality of physical existence.”
The Daily Beast | Virgin Galactic
After years of hype, Virgin Galactic seems to have its act together. Just in time for the boss to join the celebration of the first moon landing by getting his astronaut wings.
Turning tiny spacecraft into starships by coupling them with large light sails – reaching other solar systems in a few decades to study them up close.
Scientists find frozen sperm exposed to zero-g could go where no man has gone before.
The 1959 pilot episode, airing a decade before the first moon landing, bore what would become the series’ hallmark: narrating Cold War anxieties through a mix of science and superstition.
It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars.
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun – and prevent a collision with Jupiter. The scenario may one day come true.
CNET | Jeff Bezos | Blue Origin
The Blue Origin billionaire wants to send us all into space. Humans have been dreaming about that for a long time.
