SOM unveils designs for first-ever human settlement on the moon
Just a few months ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)...
Movement to save grizzly bears from hunters scores a victory
Thomas Mangelsen, the animal photographer who brought fame to Yellowstone's "Grizzly 399," has been selected to...
ESA launches world's first mission to explore the "atmospheres of hundreds of planets"
Behold a brand new era of space exploration. The European Space Agency (ESA) just announced plans to launch what...
Airbus wants to harpoon a satellite and bring it back to Earth
The aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a three-foot harpoon they hope will catch the nonfunctional...
Astronomers discover that exoplanet WASP-12b is "darker than asphalt"
Astronomers recently discovered an exoplanet they've been studying since 2008 is pitch black, reflecting almost...
ESA unveils magnetic space tug to corral broken satellites drifting in space
Japan's experiment to clean up space junk earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies...
ESA 3D prints extraterrestrial bricks with concentrated sunlight and moondust
The European Space Agency (ESA) is getting in on the 3D-printing fun with extraterrestrial materials. They used...
ESA-funded SABRE aircraft to travel 5x faster than the speed of sound
Flights on Earth and beyond are about to get really fast. UK company Reaction Engines just signed a contract with...
Earth's atmosphere is leaking 90 tons of material every day
Earth has sprung a leak. Every day, 90 metric tons of matter leaks from Earth's upper atmosphere into space. This...
New Hubble images finally reveal what the Crab Nebula hides in its core
Legions of scientists have studied and taken images of the Crab Nebula -- in fact, it's one of the most-studied...
The Earth's magnetic field is weakening ten times faster than expected
New satellite data from the European Space Agency has revealed some puzzling findings: the Earth's magnetic field...
Lilium is the world's first personal aircraft designed for vertical takeoff and landing
The fixed-wing aircraft is made to launch vertically so that it doesn’t need a runway. Lilium will initially...
ESA blasts off mission to detect life on Mars
Is there life on Mars? The question has haunted humans for eons, and now the European Space Agency (ESA) is spending...
Rosetta Mission-inspired LED comet could land in your city
The comet pavilion is large—the piece measures 9 feet by 12 feet by 8 feet—but its size is just a tiny fraction...
The ESA launched kombucha into space to see whether it can survive
Samples of kombucha are currently attached to the outside of the International Space Station, exposed to the harsh...
