“It’s a tax write-off. This is where they send the new, the underqualified, the old. And most of all the British. Mars is full of blonde Americans. It’s like they’re building the master race out there.” Billions of miles from home, the lone research base on Pluto has lost contact with Earth. Unable to leave […]
Pluto’s fifth moon discovered Image: Hubblesite A new moon has been found orbiting Pluto, bringing the number of satellites known around the former planet to five. P5 – the moon’s temporary designation – is between 10 to 25 km across (less than the diameter of London’s North Circular Road), and was discovered by scientists at […]
What we know (or perhaps more accurately what we think we know) about our universe is constantly changing – in a relatively tiny amount of time, our scientific research has progressed from a simplistic geocentric solar system model to one in which there are hundreds upon thousands of galaxies, each containing countless stars with orbiting […]