I’ve picked up a fun series by John Varley recently. It’s about the science invented by a Cajun idiot-savant which allows apparently free energy and near light-speed travel. In the first book, Red Thunder, a group of teenagers (nearly ready for college) befriend an alcoholic space pilot and his cousin, a super-genius with a head…
Astronomers feel that ocean worlds like Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus may be our best hope for finding life outside of our own planet. Both are icy with a subsurface ocean. The discovery of complex organic molecules that rise in plumes from Enceladus’ ocean further suggests the moon could support life as we know…
Astronomers have discovered what might be an exomoon – a moon outside our solar system. This would be the first such ever found. The moon, estimated to be about the size of our planet Neptune, was found in orbit around a gigantic gas planet 8,000 light-years from Earth. Although moons are common in our system…