AN ICY-BLUE DOME STANDS AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A HARSH, RED LANDSCAPE. This mysterious frosty globe guards a band of pioneers against the unforgiving Martian environment. This isn’t a sci-fi story, buddy. This is NASA’s ambitious new concept for living on Mars. While working alongside a group of expert architects and designers from industry and academia, an unlikely material for building these chill-pads was proposed … Continue reading
SUGAR AND ALCOHOL have been discovered in the icy furrows of comet Lovejoy. The comet’s orbit is highly elliptical. On a close arc around the sun, blue-green sails of booze and sugar trail off into space. Lovejoy marks the first time that ethyl alcohol (or ethanol), the same type we use in drinks here on Earth, has been … Continue reading
IN A FARAWAY SOLAR SYSTEM awash with distant, milky stars smearing through velvety blackness, an exoplanet modestly named HD 131399Ab is treated to a boastful triple sunset. This little piece of paradise is located roughly 320 light-years from Earth, in the HD 131399 system in the constellation of Centaurus. The exoplanet Described as a gaseous, … Continue reading
