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NASA Selects Companies to Develop Super-Fast Engine

Posted in Hardware on 4th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA announced it will partner with companies to create more advanced space technology, including a new engine that could get humans to Mars in less than 40 days.

Mars beckons for European satellite

Posted in Hardware on 3rd Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

The satellite Europe will be sending to Mars early next year is about to undergo its final test programme.

Martian Microbes Could Be Eating Carbon Monoxide From the Atmosphere

Posted in Science on 24th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Good news for the possibility of life on Mars.

Aurora shift confirms Ganymede has an ocean

Posted in Science on 23rd Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Shifts in Ganymedes version of the Northern Lights suggest that a saltwater ocean lurks beneath the icy crust of Jupiters largest moon.

It is probable that exoplanets are in the habitable zone around most stars

Posted in Science on 22nd Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller

Billions of the stars in the Milky Way will have one to three planets in the habitable zone, where life could exist.