Riding to the moon aboard a space elevator is possible using today’s technology
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to humankind’s expansion throughout the solar system is the prohibitive cost of escaping Earth’s gravity.
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Joseph Shavit
- 7 days ago
Does outer space just go on forever or does it have an end?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to outer space – and then keep going? What would you find? Does it go on forever?
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 29
Chemists create artificial protein that peers into Earth’s chemical past
Artificial protein reveals new clues about primordial chemical processes
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 16
What a Martian meteorite can teach us about Earth’s origins
Researchers found the martian origin of the 4.48-billion-year-old Black Beautymeteorite, whose origin is one of the oldest regions of Mars.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 15
Finally an answer to the fundamental question of how life on Earth began
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 6
Space elevator ride to the moon is feasible using today’s technology
The biggest hurdle to humankind’s expansion throughout the solar system is the prohibitive cost of escaping Earth’s gravitational pull.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 3
How the Earth and moon formed, explained
Scientists can use modern rocks, moon samples and meteorites to figure out when and how the Earth and moon formed over 4.6 billion years ago
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 27
Astronomers discover a multiplanet system very close to Earth
MIT astronomers have discovered two terrestrial, Earth-sized, planets that lie just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 15
Researchers answer the centuries old question of how life on Earth began
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 15
China’s lunar lander finds evidence of native water on moon
Samples from the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum may be able to calm at least one scientific squall: the source of lunar water.
Joseph Shavit
- Jun 10
NASA is officially joining the hunt for UFOs
The space agency on Thursday announced a new study that will recruit leading scientists to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.
Joseph Shavit
- May 17
Extraterrestrial stone brings first tangible evidence of a supernova to Earth
The stone named Hypatia from the Egyptian desert could be the first tangible evidence found on Earth of a supernova type Ia explosion.
Joseph Shavit
- May 6
Space elevator rides to the moon are possible using today’s technology
The biggest hurdle to humankind’s expansion throughout the solar system is the prohibitive cost of escaping Earth’s gravitational pull.
Joseph Shavit
- May 2
New experiments reveal the source of the aurora borealis
Researchers have demonstrated Alfvén waves accelerating electrons under conditions that correspond to Earth’s magnetosphere.
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 30
Earth’s atmosphere may be source of some lunar water
Hydrogen and oxygen escaping from Earth’s upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water.
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 26
Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids?
Using new analyses, scientists found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in meteorites
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 23
Scientists Plan to Store DNA on The Moon!
The ambitious project aims to preserve humankind – and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind – in the event of a global crisis.
Joseph Shavit
- Apr 5
NASA uses moonlight to improve satellite accuracy
NASA has more than 20 Earth-observing satellites that give researchers a global perspective on the interconnected Earth system.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 30
Ancient helium leaking from our planet's core offers clues to Earth's formation
As a planet grows, it accumulates material from its surroundings, so its composition reflects the environment in which it formed.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 26
The Sun is likely source of the Earth's water, study finds
Researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source.