Why do we exist? The answer depends on who you ask, really. Those with strong religious inclinations believe humans are the end goal of a divine plan, whereas atheistic materialists believe [...]
Crysoleep – a deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperatures to preserve it – used to be confined merely to the world of science fiction. At the end of last year, howe [...]
Reach for the sky just took on a whole new meaning. Cabot Guns, an American gun company, is in the preliminary stages of creating a gun from a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite that was first [...]
Most asteroids and comets in the solar system do not pose much of a threat to Earth. However, a recent report found that comets outside the solar system are more likely to harm the planet t [...]
The world seems to be teetering on the brink of collapse with the rise of ISIS, the looming economic downturn and the corrosion of civil liberties. If the apocalypse does occur, it is curre [...]
Before we can colonize Mars, we must ensure we don’t decolonize Earth first, warns Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in an interview with GQ. Musk notes there is a window of oppor [...]
The solar system just got a little bit bigger. Astronomers collaborating with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have identified what they believe could be a large plan [...]
President Barack Obama signed a space mining legislation into law Wednesday, which gives U.S. space companies the right to mine and sell whatever materials they cultivate from astronomical [...]
The massive amount of space debris entombing the Earth has long posed a huge problem for space agencies everywhere. Inevitably, the amount of junk wrapped around Earth will eventually reach [...]
In 2013, the White House responded to a quasi-serious petition to build a Death Star – a mobile mega-structure and galactic super weapon used to decimate planets in the Star Wars trilogy. T [...]
