A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in…
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Humans are naturally afraid of the dark. We sometimes imagine monsters under the bed and walk faster down unlit streets…
Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity’s starry ambitions are farther reaching…
Rolls-Royce, as a brand, conjures images of very expensive British motor vehicles. Sure, you could drive it yourself, but the…
Some 540 million years ago, diverse life forms suddenly began to emerge from the muddy ocean floors of planet Earth.…
Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down,…
There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close…
Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration and has serious…
Is there such a thing as nothing? – Reggie, aged seven, Darlington Could someone see nothing? What does nothing look…
Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our…