During a high-level discussion of NASA’s goals for human space exploration, we got an early look at what a 30-day crewed mission to Mars’ surface could eventually look like. It’s an exciting prospect that, while many years, if not decades, … Read More
Interstellar travel may not be lightyears away. Breakthrough Starshot, an international research project, recently provided an update on its plans to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system. Before that, it will have to develop and … Read More
Stephen Hawking, a world-famous physicist, submitted a research paper just two weeks before his death that suggests parallel Universes and predicts the end of this one. Hawking and his co-author Thomas Hertog published their findings in “A Smooth Exit from … Read More
It’s hard not to wonder what it’d be like if advanced aliens were tuning in to our planet right now, downloading the latest news and gossip in an attempt to figure out where our civilization stands. Hopefully, they will gloss … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now fully aligned, and NASA has the pictures to prove it. Every mirror on the JWST, the world’s largest and most powerful telescope, is now officially aligned and in focus. To announce the achievement, the … Read More
Scientists have made significant progress toward developing a future aircraft powered by an ion drive rather than moving parts and fuel like conventional aircraft. A team, led by Steven Barrett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), described in a … Read More