What is a Black Hole? To fully appreciate why you can’t just swan dive or maneuver your spacecraft into a black hole, you must first understand the basic properties of these gravitational behemoths.… [+4910 chars]
Eric Choi is a long-running science fiction author who specializes in "hard" science fiction and on drawing from real-life stories in space exploration. Choi, is the winner ofAurora Awards in 2011 … [+10841 chars]
The Apollo lunar landing missions have often been referred to as "flags and footprints" sorties. It's a somewhat derisive term, referring to America's mad dash to reach the moon before the Soviet U… [+6302 chars]
SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Aug. 19 and aced a rocket landing at sea.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cap… [+1274 chars]
SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Aug. 19 and aced a rocket landing at sea.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cap… [+1274 chars]
The NWT experiences wildfires every summer, with some seasons worse than others. Above the smoke plumes, scientists from space agencies are watching. At an open house in Yellowknife earlier this wee… [+3535 chars]
Scientists are planning a "CAT scan" of a British Columbia volcano to help harness the underground heat that turns rock into magma for renewable energy. "Canadians are often surprised to know there… [+3458 chars]
Scientists may have found a way to use colliding black holes to measure how fast the universe is expanding and solve some of the mysteries surrounding dark energy. Violent mergers of black holes cre… [+4844 chars]
The earth is composed of three main layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. Lasers pave the path for finding ancient crust. Curtin University researchers have discovered evidence of an approxi… [+2785 chars]
Materials science has long taken the lead in space exploration research, and it seems to have been getting even more attention than usual lately. That is especially true for building materials. NASA … [+3882 chars]
Planetary photobombers may be quite interesting for some people. But, these exoplanets can actually affect NASA and other space agencies, especially during data analysis. On Earth, photobombers can… [+2564 chars]
The Sun has been extremely active over the recent weeks and has been shooting of huge amounts of energy in the form of solar flares, some of which has safely dissipated out in space, but then some ca… [+2166 chars]
