As you’ve (hopefully) seen, on April 30th, SpaceX successfully launched its first crewed ship, which delivered the two astronauts safely to the international space station. It was the first piloted space flight from US soil in nearly nine years and the first new spacecraft in nearly 40 years. Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken said the…
Science News has a great article about the latest on Mars. According to the latest data, even though pure water just doesn’t last on the surface, brine might last for up to six hours. NASA’s Curiosity and Phoenix landers have found salts known as perchlorates in the soil, which might hint at the possible existence…
Turns out, if you can find just the right temperature and pressure, you can make a substance boil, steam and freeze at the same time. Here’s a video of cyclohexane alternating between solid, liquid and gas.
The ExoMars programme comprises two missions: the first – the Trace Gas Orbiter – launched in 2016 while the second, comprising a rover and surface platform, is planned for 2022. Together they will address the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. This is a joint program between the European Space Agency (ESA)…
I came across this article in Discover, written in 2000. I thought it’d be interesting to see what they got right and where they missed the mark. Here’s their list: We’ve come a long way from 2000, but it’s not the future yet …