At some point, we have all stared up into the inky blackness peppered with stars and pondered our place amongst it all. Are we a lonely planet with no one out there to keep us company? Or are there others out there waiting to be contacted? Well, a new unbelievably powerful telescope could find out if we are alone in just 60 hours. We just need to get a particularly impressive telescope into space first.

So, what is this incredible telescope? How can it see life from across the cosmos? And how would its findings affect humanities place in the…

A while ago, I wrote an article on how Musk’s Starship could topple the aviation industry. In that article, I explained how Starship’s methane fuel could be harvested as a carbon-neutral biofuel, effectively making the rocket a massive fart firework. As a perfectly rational man-child, I began to wonder if astronauts could return from Mars purely under their own ‘steam’. So, chow down on some Brussel Sprouts, grab an air freshener and crack open a window because it’s time to do interplanetary space travel using brown thunder!

Firstly, we need some assumptions about this mars mission. I am assuming that…

It was the 19th of October 2017, the #MeToo movement had just begun, no one knew what Covid was, and an observatory in Hawaii had just spotted something unusual. It looked like a comet, but it had no tail, and its trajectory was all wrong. After running some quick calculations, astronomers realised that this was the first interstellar object we’d ever found. It was a cosmic visitor from another star system. They named it ʻOumuamua after the Hawaiian for scout. But ‘Oumuamua persistently defied categorisation and continued to act strangely. …

Supermassive black holes are the gargantuan celestial monsters at the centre of most Galaxies. With masses millions, or billions, times larger than the Sun, they dwarf all other bodies in the cosmos. Their immense gravitational pull binds their encircling galaxy together, shepherding the stars that orbit it, creating the beautiful spiralling galaxies we see deep in the night sky, but these celestial shepherds are mysterious. We know they are vital for creating a stable and habitable galaxy, yet we have no idea where they come from, but recent research has shed some light on these giant’s shadowy birth.

For years…

Elon Musk has some whacky ideas, I think by now that’s common knowledge, but one of his most outlandish is that we are most likely living in a simulation. In interviews and press conferences, he gives a quippy bit of logic to explain this idea, and everyone gets sucked in! But is he onto something? Or has Joe Rogan got him smoking too much of the green stuff?

This mind-bending bit of logic was first proposed by Nick Bostrom in 2003 who named it the simulation hypothesis. It goes as follows:

As computers are getting exponentially more powerful each year…

Nasa is going back to the Moon! But this time, things will be a little different, not just because they are building a lunar base, but also because they are commissioning private companies like SpaceX to build and supply it. The base itself is also an utterly ground breaking piece of space infrastructure that will develop tech that could, one day, open up lunar industries, Martian missions and even crewed missions to other celestial bodies. Welcome to the Artemis program, NASA’s bid to win our new-era space race.

You may have noticed that Elon Musk really likes Mars. He wants us to colonise it and has even gone as far as to state that he wants to die on the planet. But why Mars? It is a toxic environment with little to offer us. But, orbiting a little further away are mini-worlds, far more enticing than the rusty red planet. These mini-worlds are collectively known as the asteroid belt, and despite what Musk might tell you, they are our best shot at an off-world colony.

Before we dive into the cosmic cornucopia in the belt, why is Mars…

Climate change is scary, the mega crap that awaits us in a few short decades is enough to make us dread the passing of the years. But we might not be around when the repercussions of our global pillage descend, because we may have unleashed something biblically deadly in the meantime. Hidden under ancient ice lie creatures capable of wiping out civilisations and eradicating entire species. We are slowly setting them free on the world once again, and the first casualties have already fallen. Prepare yourself for the frightening reality of ancient frozen pathogens.

Under arctic permafrost (ground that doesn’t…