After exposing notoriously resilient microscopic animals called tardigrades to simulated Martian soil, they began to move extremely slowly ...
In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA's new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of ...
On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...
Abstract: Ensuring safe and human-like decision-making is a critical component of autonomous vehicle decision systems. However, conventional approaches often simplify the action space into discrete ...
Stephen Hawking spent decades warning that humanity faces a simple choice: spread beyond Earth or risk total extinction. The theoretical physicist argued that threats ranging from artificial ...
Our biggest obstacle might not be technological,” author Scott E. Solomon said of future life on Mars. “It might be us.” ...
Q As a former NASA mission planner, I would signal a “no-go” for human colonization of the moon and Mars. The human body’s functions cannot tolerate the long-term effects of ...
Some sci-fi movies take the genre extra seriously, using accurate technologies to ground their depiction of the future.
Two of the best shows of this genre were Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine and the independent series, Babylon 5. Both series confront the harsh realities of war and occupation. Babylon 5 begins in the ...
As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in ...