How Future Archaeologists Will Study Human Civilisation Charles December 20, 2018 Earth, Sky 1 From fossilised remnants of long-lost cities to technofossils to environmental catastrophe, how future archaeologists will study human civilisation By the beginning of the Cambrian Period, Earth’s oceans were ... Read More...
What Would Happen if an Asteroid Hit the Earth? Charles June 26, 2018 Earth, Sky Unlike the dinosaurs, we humans have a fairly good idea of what would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth. Let’s explore the space-born apocalypse! 66-million years ago, an asteroid between six and nine miles ... Read More...
What Space Travel Will Look Like in the Future Charles December 18, 2017 Sky Science fiction might inspire us to dream, but here’s a rather more realistic vision of what space travel will look like in the future. When Jules Verne wrote his novel From the Earth to the Moon over 150 year... Read More...
10 Fascinating Discoveries Made by the Cassini-Huygens Mission Charles September 8, 2017 Listicles, Sky The enormously successful Cassini-Huygens Mission is ending, but it has made many important discoveries during its 20 years of service. After a two-month break over the summer, I think it’s most fitting to sta... Read More...
Was Ancient Mars Like Earth? How Mars Died while Earth Lived Charles June 7, 2017 Sky Recent studies suggest that ancient Mars, like Earth today, may have had an oxygenated atmosphere and a plenitude of liquid water. 4 billion years ago, our world was a land of boiling oceans and rampant volcan... Read More...
10 Reasons Why We Should Colonize Titan Charles May 24, 2017 Listicles, Sky 1 When it comes to colonizing outer space, Mars gets most of the attention, but there are also some very compelling reasons why we should colonize Titan. Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the only natural satellite... Read More...
How Close Are We to Interstellar Travel? Charles May 15, 2017 Sky 1 Humanity has long dreamed of one day reaching the stars, but how close are we to interstellar travel becoming a reality? It’s no secret that interstellar travel is incredibly complicated given the unimaginably... Read More...
Monthly News Roundup – April, 2017 in Science Charles May 1, 2017 Earth, News Roundup, Sky From the first direct observation of negative mass to the possibility that humans may have arrived in the Americas 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, the last month has revealed some fascinating rev... Read More...
Why We Will Never Meet Aliens Charles April 21, 2017 Sky 4 Scale and probability suggest that intelligent life should be common throughout the Universe, so why is it that we will never meet aliens? A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the reasons why we’re extremely clo... Read More...
Was Venus Once Habitable? A Case for Further Exploration of Earth’s Twin Charles April 14, 2017 Sky Owing to its infernal environment, Earth’s twin has been largely ignored in recent years, but further exploration might reveal if Venus was once habitable. On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union’s Venera 4 landed ... Read More...
