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Elon Musk says early Mars missions will establish crucial cargo routes
Posted in Science on 11th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
"You can count on it. Its going to happen every 26 months. Like a train leaving the station," said Musk.
Asteroids 'dumped water into the molten Moon'
Posted in Science on 1st Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
How and when water got trapped in volcanic lunar rocks is a huge and open question for planetary scientists.
Space experts say sending humans to Mars worth the risk
Posted in Science on 31st May, 2016
by Alex Muller
There's a long-standing joke that NASA is always 20 years from putting astronauts on Mars. A to-do list from 2015 looks remarkably similar to one compiled in 1990.
Planet 9 could have once been an exoplanet, stolen by our sun
Posted in Science on 31st May, 2016
by Alex Muller
'Astronomers often find exoplanets hundreds of light years away in other solar systems, but there is probably one hiding in our own backyard'
Mysterious Heavy Ion Beams Above Mars Explained
Posted in Science on 30th May, 2016
by Alex Muller
NASA's latest mission to Mars has uncovered the origins of fast-moving streams of particles high above the planet, flowing against the solar wind.