…while making sure we don’t leave Earth behind. Currently home to 7.7 billion human beings… A world which has seen 108 billion humans exist since the beginning of our species… Earth has been our home for several hundred thousand years, and home to millions upon millions of species, and trillions of organisms, for over 3 billion […]

Blockchain development firm Blockstream has expanded its satellite service and is now broadcasting the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain to all of Earth’s major land masses, Forbes reported Dec. 17. The wider coverage — which comes via the addition of a fifth leased satellite — brings potential internet-free Bitcoin transactions and information sharing to crypto users in the Asia Pacific region. The satellite […]

The “illumination satellite” would reflect sunlight down to Earth, creating a glow about eight times brighter than the moon. It might sound like a plot cooked up by a cartoon villain, but a city in southwestern China is aiming to launch into space an artificial moon that could replace streetlights by bathing the ground in […]

The rocky body at the outer edge of our solar system was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006. And that decision has been hotly debated ever since. Maybe Pluto is a planet after all. The icy ball at the outer edge of the solar system was considered a planet from its discovery in 1930 […]

The agency is laying the groundwork for long-term human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Matt Damon already proved potatoes can survive on Mars, but NASA now wants to figure out how spaceflight and changing gravity patterns impact the way other plants and animals grow and develop. The space agency began accepting proposals for a number […]

US space agency NASA is preparing to launch a probe in August to study the Sun closer than any human-made object ever has, revealing multiple mysteries behind the star. The car-sized spacecraft called Parker Solar Probe is slated to lift off no earlier than 6 August on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy, according to NASA, Xinhuanews […]

Scientists have conducted a new study which shows that the universe’s rate of expansion differs markedly when nearby locations are compared with distant ones. New research has shown that the universe’s rate of expansion is even odder than scientists had thought, with fresh data showing there to be a discrepancy in this rate when nearby […]