space tech

Benjamin Johnson May 14, 2018 145
A multitude of discoveries are on the horizon after a much-awaited release that is based on 22 months of charting the sky as part of Gaia’s mission to produce the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy ever created. The new…

Benjamin Johnson Mar 26, 2018 4
Trailing Earth’s orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mechanical failures to being blasted by cosmic rays. At this rate, the hardy spacecraft may reach…

Benjamin Johnson Feb 06, 2018 4
The day when astronauts go on deep-space missions, human waste may end up being a valuable food resource — that’s right, transform human waste into food. A team of researchers have shown that it is possible to rapidly break down solid…