Was SpaceX launch about progress in space, or just a giant ad?
14 February 2018
The Falcon Heavy launch was more than just spectacle – it set the stage for a future Mars mission. Now we need to think about who's in the driver's seat
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NASA may lose a major space telescope and space station funding
12 February 2018
President Trump wants to cut back on major NASA projects, including a space telescope to study dark matter and dark energy, and US funding for the space station
Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves
9 February 2018
If gravitational waves – ripples in space time – have a handedness, primordial particles could interact with them to form a dark matter superfluid that spreads through the cosmos
We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
9 February 2018
We've never had to deflect an incoming asteroid before it hits Earth, so how do we know the best way to do it? An algorithm says nuclear weapons are the most effective
Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth
5 February 2018
Bizarre ice that forms under intense pressure and high temperatures may cause Neptune’s and Uranus’s odd magnetic fields. Now, we’ve made this stuff on Earth
