NASA

Nasa starts year-long isolation to simulate life on Mars

Posted in Science on 29th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

A team of Nasa recruits has begun living in a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii to simulate what life would be like on Mars.

Buzz Aldrin developing a 'master plan' to colonize Mars within 25 years

Posted in Science on 29th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Aldrin and the Florida Institute of Technology are pushing for a Mars settlement by 2039, the 70th anniversary of his own Apollo 11 moon landing.

One-meter rise in sea levels inevitable, NASA says

Posted in Featured, Science on 28th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

We don't know whether it will happen within a century or somewhat longer, but the rise will have a 'profound impact' around the world.

SpaceWorks Believes Cryogenic Sleep Holds the Key to Space Travel

Posted in Science on 28th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Bodies need too much maintenance for deep space travel. We need a supply of those things absent from space; water, food and oxygen.

Pluto and nitrogen: Why is there so much gas?

Posted in Science on 15th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA's New Horizons craft has revealed that Pluto has so much nitrogen that hundreds of tons of it escape into space each hour.