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Illustration of a gamma ray burst in space. Credit: ESO/A. Roquette, CC BY-SA

Simulating the Universe’s Brightest Events in a Lab

Gianluca Sarri 16/01/2018

One idea for the origin of gamma-ray bursts, the...

A cross-section of a thick sheet of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view of Mars from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in this image released on January 11, 2018. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS/Handout via Reuters

Thick Sheets of Water Ice Found Buried Under Mars’s Surface

Will Dunham 12/01/2018

The findings showed that ice may be more available than previously...

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Start Mining Asteroids for Faster Data and a Cleaner Planet

Philip Metzger 09/01/2018

An asteroid-mining infrastructure could help to solve a major...

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How the Whalers of Moby-Dick Could Help Put Humans on Mars

Matthew Bruen 07/01/2018

There are astonishing parallels between the whaling industry and...

Recent research, however, is casting new light on the importance of the southernmost continent. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Why Antarctica Is So Important in a Warming World

Chris Fogwill, Chris Turney and Zoe Robinson 08/12/2017

The Antarctic Treaty was signed 58 years ago, protecting...

Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, congratulates WARR Hyperloop from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, after they won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, California, U.S., August 27, 2017. Credit: Reuters

Elon Musk Shrinks SpaceX Mars Rocket to Cut Costs

Sonali Paul and Tom Westbrook 29/09/2017

SpaceX plans its first trip to the red planet...

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Hail and Farewell, Cassini

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/09/2017

Cassini has been humankind's proxy-visit to Saturn, a diminutive,...