How long would it take to get to Mars? What does it take to ‘touch’ the sun? Why did the Russians try to invent a second moon? We might have come a long way from ‘Where does the sun go at night?,’…
It’s known as the ‘Great Dying‘, an extinction event even more powerful than the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It’s called the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and it took place 250 million years ago, before dinosaurs ruled the Earth….
The European Commission and Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures launched a $114.57 million (100 million euro) clean energy investment fund on Wednesday. Called Breakthrough Energy Europe, the pilot fund is designed to help European companies develop clean energy technologies and bring them…
For over 15 years, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been working toward creating rockets that can be flown to space over and over. So far, no Falcon 9 booster has flown more than twice, but that may be about to change with a…
It’s become clear that something in the cosmos just doesn’t add up. The universe is getting bigger every second. In fact, it’s expanding at a much faster rate than it should. For some time now there’s been a mismatch in observations of…
The InstaDreamer wants you to chase your dreams, before grabbing them and telling them exactly what you want to do next. The vibrating bracelet, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter, looks like a Fitbit, but instead of exercising your thighs, it exercises…
There’s no rest for NASA’s Mars rover specialists. The Curiosity rover is struggling with an issue that is preventing it from beaming science and engineering data stored in its memory back to Earth. The problem first cropped up over the weekend, prompting…
SpaceX has a passenger for the first private trip around the moon on its Big Falcon Rocket. But it’s cloaking the news in a bit of mystery for a few days. The rocket company, founded by Elon Musk, will reveal the BFR…
While the Opportunity rover is yet to be roused from its dust-induced sleep, NASA has performed digital brain surgery on Curiosity. Since Sept. 15, the Curiosity rover, originally launched in 2012, has encountered a few technical issues. It’s struggling to send back…
It’s been a frightening month for people in the paths of monster storms. The latest is Typhoon Trami, which is on course to smack into Japan this week, bringing potentially devastating winds and rain along with it. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander…
