Today, there’s a boom in space-related innovation and investment not just at big aerospace companies, but at dozens of smaller startups as well. The Martian by Andy Weir wasn’t the first book about space exploration by a non-famous author that...
NASA may have found the ingredients for sustainable life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. In 2015, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was launched into a plume of gas and ice spraying form the south pole of one of Saturn’s moons. The instrument, acting as...
With pollution causing more and more premature deaths worldwide each year, can trees be the answer to improving public health? Pollution is not only detrimental to the wellbeing of our environment, but it is also extremely hazardous to our...
Scientists have found seven planets that are like Earth, might have water and even life, raising questions about the universe and our place in it. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered “the first known system of seven Earth-size planets...
The moon is a safer bet, not Mars. Well, at least for now. I still remember the night when my siblings, my father, some workers on the farm and I sat around a fire on a cold night in the middle of a jungle, and listened to a decrepit old radio. It...
