Although the bitcoin price has dropped, those who are a fan of the cryptocurrency remain hopeful that it will continue to rise. For example, Jack Dorsey the CEO of Twitter and Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla have both praised bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology. …

China is working to secure its place as the next leader in space exploration. They currently have engineers working to build powerful solar sails that can travel vast distances Even though it has been nearly five decades since humans first landed on the moon, the technology for getting astronauts to…

A geomagnetic storm watch has been announced by the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) for February 27 and February 28. The solar storm forecast is due to a massive hole splitting the Sun’s corona open The Sun’s corona is an outer layer of energized gas called plasma, which extends…

The world’s first-ever interplanetary “mole,” one of the instruments on the InSight mission, began digging into the surface of Mars last night. The mole will be the first robotic instrument to measure the flow of heat on another planet, providing scientists with insights into the formation of the red planet. …

The European Space Agency has used their Mars Express satellite to capture some photos that demonstrate the marks an ancient network of rivers left on the Red Planet’s surface The valleys formed as they would here on our planet, caused by a steady flow of water sculpting its way through…

NASA’s newest mission aims to assist scientists in understanding and, ultimately, forecasting the different space weather system around Earth. Space weather can have broad impacts on our planet that affect technology and astronauts. …

NASA scientists recently simulated the reaction that happens when solar wind hits the moon at a speed of 450 kilometers per second, discovering that protons from the wind interact with electrons on the lunar surface to form hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen then bonds with oxygen atoms in the silica-rich moon…

by Kerry Hebden When scientists finally get to sample alien life, what will they see? Will their genetic structure mimic ours or will it be wildly different? How different can DNA be? …

Enrico Palermo is part of a team in California’s the Mojave Desert working to build and test the aircraft as they get ready to shuttle tourists to space. …