Blue Origin has a mission scheduled for Sunday, while Virgin Galactic is expected to go suborbital two weeks later. In the meantime, SpaceX is inviting public enquiries for missions to the moon and Mars.
Dyson spheres, megastructures that could be constructed by advanced civilizations to harness the radiation energy of their host stars, represent a potential technosignature, that in principle may be hiding in public data already collected as part of
Back in the early 1990s, Dave Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, had an intellectual itch he couldn't quite scratch. His specialty was finding and mapping asteroids?"he had even served on an early "detection committee" that NA
It was set to be the world's first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine, but the MIRA I prototype crashed on takeoff before the most innovative part of its propulsion system could fire.
Elon Musk discusses the future of humanity with Michael Milken, touching on topics such as birth rates, the most impactful factors shaping our future, and his vision of a multiplanetary species.