Space

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• A homeowner's guide to living on Mars

  If you had to live the rest of your life on Mars, what would you miss the most? Figuring out how we could we be comfortable living on the red planet is a challenge but with increasing discussion about how to send people to Mars with the ultimate aim of colonizing the planet, how ...

  • The Conversation

• Sorry Elon Musk, but colonizing Mars isn't going to happen

  Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonizing Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challenging in several ways. Planetary protection rules ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA just made thousands of hours of Apollo 11 tapes public for the first time

  When Apollo 11 descended from the heavens, touching down on the moon on July 20, 1969, three brave men became immortals, the types of men forever remembered for a single act that defined their storied careers. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins might be the names we ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Watch Virgin Galactic's space plane soar 32 miles above the Earth

  Watch as Virgin Galactic takes another step towards putting the public in space with the latest successful test flight of ...

  • Tristan Greene

• These satellite images show how much damage climate change has caused

  Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University The average rainfall for the first two weeks of July in England was 6mm, while only 15mm fell throughout all of June, according to the UK’s Environment Agency. To give some idea of how low this is, the definition of a desert is a ...

  • The Conversation

• Virgin Orbit will launch the first-ever flights to space from British soil

  In a new partnership, Virgin Orbit and Cornwall Airport Newquay in South West England will be setting up a spaceport that ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• Jeff Bezos plans to charge upwards of $300,000 for a ticket to space

  Jeff Bezos really wants to make space tourism a thing. According to a report by Reuters, the Amazon CEO's rocket company, Blue Origin, could begin shuttling humans into space as early as next year. The cost of the trip? A mere $200,000 to $300,000 per ticket. For the price of ...

  • Bryan Clark

• UK's first spaceport gets £2.5m funding to launch satellites

  Scotland will be home to the UK's first spaceport, Britain's government has announced. Rockets and satellites will be vertically launched from the spaceport, which has received £2.5 million (approximately $3.31 million) in funding from the UK Space Agency. Its aim is to cement ...

  • Callum Booth

• Amazon could be delivering to the Moon by 2023

  At least, as long as Jeff Bezos' other company, Blue Origin, chooses to do business with them instead of a different company ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Eight ethical questions about exploring outer space that need answers

  Metallic shrapnel flying faster than bullets; the Space Shuttle smashed to pieces; astronauts killed or ejected into space. ...

  • The Conversation

• Astronomers watch as black hole drags an exploding star to its death

  Astronomers searching for supernova explosions accidentally stumbled upon a supermassive black hole recently as it devoured ...

  • The Conversation

• Asteroid mining could be the next big thing in space - but we're not ready

  Today being the World Asteroid Day, we could reflect on the potential devastation that can be unleashed by these space rocks, ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran