Tag: Mars
US seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic lows. That has...
Yes, I’m searching for aliens – and no, I won’t be...
Jason Wright, Pennsylvania State University
Editor’s note: What started as an internet joke has generated a stern military warning after more than a million people...
How SpaceX lowered costs and reduced barriers to space
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Cameron University
On March 2, SpaceX plans to launch its first test of an unmanned Dragon vehicle which is designed to carry...
Discovered: a huge liquid water lake beneath the southern pole of...
Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland
We now know that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, according to a paper published today in the...
Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers
Frans von der Dunk, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Most likely, this is the best-known picture of a flag ever taken: Buzz Aldrin standing next to the...
Talking to Mars: new antenna design could aid interplanetary communication
Jean Paul Santos, University of California, Los Angeles; Joshua M Kovitz, University of California, Los Angeles, and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles
When...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
