The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to build a permanent settlement on Mars by 2117. As part of preparations for the settlement, it will build a simulation of a Martian settlement in the Metaverse. A Dubai-based Web3 company called Bedu will lead development of the simulation. It expects to collaborate with experts in the space … [Read more…]
The Mars Society will hold its 25th Annual International Mars Society Convention at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona on October 20-23, 2022. The event will include a virtual attendance option that will be free for Mars Society members who are current on their dues. After the convention, the Mars Society will post videos of … [Read more…]
OXFORD, MS, March 11, 2021 – For All Moonkind, Inc., the only organization in the world dedicated to protecting human heritage in space, is proud to unveil the For All Moonkind Moon Registry, a free online resource that catalogs and celebrates human historical sites and artifacts on the Moon. From Luna to Apollo to Chang’e … [Read more…]
Most asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter are little things. They’re almost cute. In the highly unlikely event that they get kicked out of the asteroid belt and enter Earth’s atmosphere, they probably wouldn’t hurt a fly. Ceres is basically the opposite. Although it has a stable orbit around the sun and … [Read more…]
You might have heard of the Big Bang at the beginning of our universe. But what caused the Big Bang? Did anything exist before the Big Bang? If our universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? Could there be other universes out there, floating in nothing? Image credit Universe Today Scientists did not think … [Read more…]
Frank White’s book, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, first published by Houghton-Mifflin in 1987, is now in its third edition, and is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of space exploration and development. White is a co-founder of the Overview Institute and founder of the “Academy in Space Initiative,” … [Read more…]
Our early solar system likely looked like a giant game of destructive billiards. Proto-asteroids, comets, and planets were colliding into each other. Sometimes these collisions caused complete disintegration of the “victims” and sometimes they caused bigger objects to form. Some proto-planets may even have been punted into the sun or out of our solar system … [Read more…]
An international team of researchers have confirmed the discovery of a planetary disc that orbits its binary star system at a 90-degree angle to the two stars’ orbit around a common center of gravity. This binary star system, officially named HD 98800, resides about 150 light-years from Earth. The research team used the Atacama Large … [Read more…]
Astronomers from the University of Warwick recently participated in a study that shows that stars similar to our sun may become crystal white dwarfs with cores made up of carbon and oxygen. Our sun may become one of these crystal white dwarfs in about 10 billion years White dwarfs are old stars that have stopped … [Read more…]
HOUSTON, Nov. 8, 2018 – It was an historic sight – living legends who worked on the Apollo program reunited for a major milestone to the see the unveiling of restored Historic Mission Control consoles used to send humans to the Moon. The newly restored units arrived in a return flight to Ellington Airport by … [Read more…]