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Monday 22 April, 2013
Kepler Discovers Twin Water Worlds
While I was working on creating two fictional planets, NASA was busy discovering their real-life counterparts.
Saturday 16 March, 2013
Planet Profile: Boreas
This FICTIONAL planet has extremely large polar regions. Human habitation is restricted to a thin band of temperate climate around the planet’s equator.
Monday 02 April, 2012
Story Idea: The Last Man on Second Earth
The ‘last man on Earth’ format has been done several times before, so I got to thinking, what if the story were set on another planet. These kinds of story also only get interesting when the character realizes that he’s not the last man on Earth, so I played around with this a little too.
Thursday 12 January, 2012
KOI-961: The Miniature Star System
A team working in Austin Texas have discovered a miniature star system, including three of the smallest extra-solar planets so far discovered.
Tuesday 13 December, 2011
Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
If you are looking for a habitable planet to feature in your story, novel or game, you can’t go far wrong by looking at the extra-solar planets we’ve already discovered.
Monday 03 October, 2011
How Many Planets Are There in the Solar System?
How many planets are there in the Solar System? Is Pluto still a planet? Exactly what is a ‘dwarf planet’? I’m confused. All your questions, and more, will be answered in this article.
Monday 19 September, 2011
Sedna – Last Gas for 600 Lightyears
Sedna is the most distant planet from the sun and is smaller even than Pluto. While this may seem to be a useless lump of frozen rock at first, its extreme distance may actually make it very useful to the interstellar traveller.
Saturday 26 March, 2011
What’s Really in the Epsilon Eridani System?
After the Alpha Centauri System, Epsilon Eridani is the most mentioned star system in science fiction, but what is it really like? Is it really all that interesting?
Thursday 24 March, 2011
What’s Really in the Alpha Centauri System?
Alpha Centauri is to science fiction what Amsterdam is to teenaged boys; a distant glimmer of hope, seducing us with promises of our first interstellar adventure and the possibility of that long-awaited first contact. It’s a scientists wet dream and the first port of call for all galactic backpackers. It’s so near, and yet so far.
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