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Matt Damon gives a remarkable performance, the story is excellent, the comedy is effective, and the movie is a solid adaptation from the best-selling novel. And even though films like Primer are so attractive to me due to their unwillingness to dumb down the science behind their...

When news “broke” about the discovery of liquid water gushing over the slopes of Mars this week, the world went Red Planet insane… And they believe that’s something we have to be very mindful of.

“Scientists announced with a high degree of certainty that we’re now sure there is water on mars, and if you look at where humans have gone before on this planet, we’ve always followed the water“.

This is a big deal because the presence of liquid water is arguably the most necessary element for the evolution of life as we know it. The water on Mars is believed to be briny and far saltier than any on Earth.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 13, 2015.

“If we reduced fossil fuel emissions, it would be good news for radiocarbon dating”, study author Heather Graven, a physicist at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London, said in a press release.

As it has neared the dwarf planet, the probe has been sending back increasingly clearer images of its target, and got as close as possible at around 11.50am GMT Tuesday – that’s 12.50pm United Kingdom time, 4.50am Pacific time or 9.50pm Australian time. The probe...

That was borne out by a lack of a single impact crater on the surface in the image, the scientist said. That means that region of the planet may still be geo-logically active today.

At 9 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, the spacecraft sent messages back to mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, confirming it had completed its mission, ending nerve-wracking hours for the craft’s operators on Earth. “While...

His work involved thousands of hours spent pouring over millions of images of stars, according to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the New Horizons mission for NASA.

New Horizons’ closest approach was scheduled for 4:49 a.m. PDT when the spacecraft would be just 7,800 miles away – close enough to take the first high-resolution images of Pluto’s mottled landscape. But over the past few weeks, we have been able to enjoy...