Earth

Gem discovery points to vast oceans deep beneath Earths crust

Posted in Featured, Science on 16th Mar, 2014
by Alex Muller

There is water, possibly massive oceans of it, deep beneath the Earths surface.

NASA plans to go fishing for asteroids with harpoon-like spacecraft

Posted in Hardware on 24th Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller

Landing spacecraft on asteroids is a delicate, precise process. Harpooning, on the other hand, is the work of an instant.

Earth will be habitable longer than we thought

Posted in Science on 23rd Jan, 2014
by Alex Muller

Scientists have discovered that Earth will remain habitable far longer than previously thought, for up to two billion years.

Xenon ion and water cubesat engines for interplanetary cubesats with costs ten thousand times less

Posted in Hardware on 1st Jan, 2014
by Alex Muller

A rocket propulsion system powered by the Sun and water, which will push small spacecraft far beyond the Earth.

Astronomers Figured Out How to Weigh Entire Planets Using Starlight

Posted in Science on 22nd Dec, 2013
by Alex Muller

A method to weigh an exoplanet by measuring the starlight that shines through its atmosphere.