‘Technical incident’ puts Europe’s GPS system fully offline for days
A major technical error has caused Europe’s satellite navigation system to be fully offline since Friday, with most satellites powering the Galileo system broken, the...
Category Archives: Science & Space
India Calls Off Mission to Moon Less Than One Hour Before Launch
India called off its mission to the moon early Monday, putting on hold its plans to be first...
Peak scarcity: Top supply shocks humanity isn’t prepared for
According to some estimates, humanity currently uses resources 50 percent faster than they can be regenerated, but several...
Centuries-old physics problem that baffled Newton finally solved
Scientific luminaries like Isaac Newton could only create temporary solutions to the centuries-old problem of ‘spherical aberration’ but one Mexican student has finally solved it...
Scientists in China invent new material to clean up oil spills
Chinese scientists have invented a honeycomb-style polypropylene material that can soak up oil from water more cheaply and...
No country is sending weapons into orbit now, but ‘militarization of space is only matter of time’
NATO’s first space strategy sees Earth’s spheres of orbit as a theater of war – just like land...
Four asteroids on possible COLLISION course with Earth
It’s a scenario straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, an asteroid is careening towards Earth and is set to wipe out human existence. To mark...
The golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire
Whether it was the Big Bang, Midas or God himself, we don’t really need to unlock the mystery...
SpaceX to send HUMAN ASHES into orbit aboard Falcon rocket… for $5k per gram
SpaceX is prepping for a launch of its third Falcon Heavy rocket, this time loaded with 24 satellites,...
Musk ridiculed for tweeting picture of Moon with ‘Occupy Mars’ catch
Netizens have torn into SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for touting the colonization of Mars with a photo of...
NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life
Mars, it appears, is belching a large amount of a gas that could be a sign of microbes living on the planet today. In a...
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were lost on the Moon. Really
Once Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed Eagle on the Moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts and their spaceship...
NASA moon rocket costing $800mn more than space agency is admitting
NASA has been playing down the true cost of its Boeing Artemis-1 moon rocket, a government watchdog says....
Gravity has no quantum properties and it drives physicists crazy.
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is more than a hundred years old, but still it gives physicists headaches. Not only are Einstein’s equations hideously...
Gold & platinum came to Earth in a massive star explosion – study
Our understanding of the origin of Earth’s heavy metals, such as gold and platinum, looks set to be...
Star Trek’s Starfleet logo spotted on Mars
On the Red Planet’s Hellas Planitia expanse, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a rather conspicuous logo that...
Apollo 11 Navigated 3D Space with 73kb Computer
Your dishwasher has more brain power than the computer that flew the Apollo astronauts to the Moon. But don’t let your dishwasher take control of...