Space lettuce: Nutritious and safe crops would be a dietary supplement to assist long-distance space missions Astronauts in space live on processed, pre-packaged space rations such as fruits, nuts, chocolate, shrimp cocktails, peanut butter, chicken, […]
Future space detector LISA could reveal the secret life and death of stars A team of astrophysicists led by Ph.D. student Mike Lau, from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), recently […]
THIS GROUP IS COLLECTING DESIGNS FOR A MARTIAN CITY The Mars Society, a space advocacy group dedicated to the exploration and settlement of Mars, is holding an international contest for the best design of a Martian city […]
New pattern uncovered in mysterious ‘fast radio bursts’ from deep space What’s creating these unusual signals? And why does this one repeat itself? One of the universe’s deep mysteries just got a lot stranger. Astrophysicists […]
Surfing space dust bunnies spawn interplanetary magnetic fields A 40-year-old enigma about ghostly magnetic fields in interplanetary space may have finally been solved by new data from a constellation of 12 satellites in near-Earth space. […]
Researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles from flares on the sun accumulate at early stages in […]