It was announced by Deep Space Industries on Tuesday , that the company will begin sending up a fleet of spacecraft designed to prospect for resources among the many asteroids that pass by the earth.
The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight.
More and more the world is dependent on technology. What will the effect be on all of this technology that permeates our everyday lives if a Coronal Mass Ejection were to strike the earth this year with the force to bring many of these modern advances to a standstill?
As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out in December in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation – which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars – could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.