On October 8, a mini-asteroid screamed into the upper atmosphere over the Indonesia and exploded with the force equivalent to two to three times that of the atom bombs that incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Space
NASA bombs the moon
NASA is about to launch a bombing raid on the moon, firing two space missiles at the lunar surface in an effort to look for more water. Space colonies, here we come!
The “other” moon landing speech
What if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off the moon? How would the public have been told? Following on from the recent death of President Nixon’s speech writer, William Safire, here is his most eloquent speeches that never was.
This will hurt your brain: time is slowing down, apparently
A decade ago, measurements of the light from distant exploding stars showed the universe to be expanding at an accelerating rate.
Physicists gave it the name “dark energy”. But a new theory suggests we’ve been fooled … because time itself is slowing down.
