chemistry
Moon Express to mine hydroxyl from the moon and provide it to fuel orbital and other space missions
Posted in Hardware on 31st Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller
Moon Express plans to create a robotic lunar hydroxyl mining machine. It will fill a small fuel tank then it will launch into lunar orbit.
Have We Been Wrong About the Origins of Life?
Posted in Featured, Science on 19th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller
An alternative idea; that life arose deep in the ocean within warm, rocky structures called hydrothermal vents.
Ocean sediment sample holds iron believed to be from a supernova
Posted in Science on 10th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller
Sediment layers may contain a type of iron that came from space millions of years ago, iron-60, which prior research has shown is spewed into space when supergiant stars explode.
Are we looking for Martian life in all the wrong places?
Posted in Science on 9th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller
Organic compounds that may have existed in/on rocks located on the surface of Mars would have been degraded by radiation from the Sun.
The Mars curiosity rover is starting to make its own decisions
Posted in Hardware on 23rd Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller
The Mars Curiosity Rover can now autonomously decide which rocks to zap with its onboard laser.