Dear readers, Welcome to Quartzs newsletter on the economic possibilities of the extraterrestrial sphere. Please forward widely, and let me know what you think. This week: Nelson loves a prix fixe, … [+7284 chars]
Asteroid collisions are a favourite theme of Hollywood disaster movies — hitting the Earth with a cataclysmic impact or deflected at the last moment by heroic human intervention. Now, new technology… [+3834 chars]
Research Box Title NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a witness at the scene of a star's explosive death: a companion star previously hidden in the glare of its partner's supernova. The dis… [+7103 chars]
The European ExoMars rover, which was scheduled to lift off toward the Red Planet in September, is now unlikely to launch before 2028 as the European Space Agency (ESA) will have to replace its Russi… [+4655 chars]
Superconductors are materials that can achieve a state known as superconductivity, in which matter has no electrical resistance and does not allow the penetration of magnetic fields. At low temperatu… [+5855 chars]
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. COVID worsens asthma in children; booster after infection not as beneficial vs Omicron The following is a summary of some recent studies on CO… [+2488 chars]
Stephen King unfurled a map on the hood of a colleague's car in Winchester, England. Traveling across the countryside, in the middle of World War II, the car's crankshaft had given out, stranding the… [+22129 chars]
image: Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest.view more Credit: Edwin Paree DURHAM, N.C. – Human activiti… [+5110 chars]
An old Russian motor has exploded in orbit, creating a further 16 shards of potentially hazardous debris. The Russian SOZ ullage motor (also known as ullage rockets) was put into orbit 15 years ago,… [+2170 chars]
Image Credit – BBC On this Saturday look up at the sky, and you will be able to see the two brightest planets of the solar system colliding with each other. Venus and Jupiter, planets that are milli… [+2591 chars]
The annual Eta Aquariids Meteor Shower, or May Meteor Shower, peaks tonight. Named after the brightest star in the constellation, Eta Aquarii, the shower is active between April 19 and May 28. The E… [+175 chars]
SpaceX's fully reusable Starship launch vehicle has been touted as the next big leap for rocket technology. So much so that recent reports suggest NASA officials are "shitting the bed" over the fac… [+4128 chars]
