Saturn’s largest moon resembles Earth with its rivers and mountains, but it came by its topography…
Author: New Scientist - Space
Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space
Jet engines that compress gas into a plasma have been successfully tested at ground level for…
Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles
Humanity may struggle to meet the costs of the futures featured in our round-up of recent…
Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought
Objects with only 6.7 per cent of the sun’s mass can be stars, according to a…
Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite
Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel…
Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite
Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel…
Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought
Objects with only 6.7 per cent of the sun’s mass can be stars, according to a…
Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles
Humanity may struggle to meet the costs of the futures featured in our round-up of recent…
What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?
Stephen Hawking now says humanity must colonise other worlds within a century, rather than 1000 years,…
Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
A sudden brightening of the infant sun – called an FU Orionis outburst – could have…