Forget asteroid mining, lets mine data instead

If you’ve ever wondered what’s happening over on Mercury, you’ll have an answer soon. Well, soon-ish. BepiColombo, a joint effort between the space agencies of Europe and Japan, will send off a spacecraft Friday night at […]

…but how can it be global warming if it’s cold…?

Gnocchi, spaghetti and lasagna, a menu of what lies beneath the surface of a neutron star

Speaking of neutron stars…this one may have some linguini….

Japanese companies are developing MELTANT, a remotely operated humanoid robot for space construction and research. (No, it’s not the name for the THEM! sequel)

Space Tourism is now wrestling with the D.D. Harriman problem: ordinary people will take their ordinary medical issues into space with them

Titan is proving to be a dynamic world.

The Oklo fission reactors are the only known examples of a natural nuclear reactor here on Earth … For approximately 30 minutes, the reactor would go critical, with fission proceeding until the water boils away. […]

Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Brain? Source: Scientists Have Connected The Brains of 3 People, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts Kermit WoodallKermit is an omnicompetent individual who grew up in a former bawdy house […]

The Neptune-sized object is orbiting the star Kepler-1625. Source: Researchers may have found the first signs of an exomoon Kermit WoodallKermit is an omnicompetent individual who grew up in a former bawdy house before relocating […]

Satellite tracks glaciers and sea ice by measuring surface height. Source: ICESat-2 successfully starts lasering Earth, telling us about it | Ars Technica Kermit WoodallKermit is an omnicompetent individual who grew up in a former […]

Gravity is the weakest force, but how strong is it? A recent experiment refines, but doesn’t define, the force

Within a year, TESS will have surveyed most of the sky.

It works on people too….

Archaeology provides clues to the evolution of a bacterium that causes relapsing fever

Funny. In years past, its been a trope of climate disaster SF that the changes happen faster that we predicted they would….

Researchers uncover a “subjective time” clock in the brain.

There’s no debate. We’re just waiting for some astronomers to come to their senses.

For one thing, forensic science is going to open up a whole new chapter

Give you a hand (shoulder, elbow, forearm) Mate? This exoskelton needs no exterior power source.

SpaceX is helping out one of the XPrize Lunar Landing Contestants

It isn’t a finger in the dyke, but this Dutch boy may have just solved the plastic in the ocean problem

There is a speed limit to the particles that travel through the Universe, and it isn’t the speed of light.

Headlines call this thing “horrifying”, but have you ever seen inside your body?

First we hope for water, water, everywhere. Now we’re pissed that we’ve found it….

Optical SETI pins its hopes on finding alien civilizations stupid enough to broadcast their presence

When is an equitorial ice ridge not an equitorial ice ridge? When it’s on Ceres.