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Mars
Saturday 02 March, 2013

Extra-planetary Nature Reserves

If you want to colonize a new planet, travelling across the cosmos is only the first hurdle you’ll have to face. You’ll also have to fight government bureaucracy, hippies and eco-warriors, and probably some deadly alien microbes too.


alien invasion
Saturday 17 November, 2012

5 Ideas for an Alien Invasion Story

Five quick and simple ideas for an alien invasion story.


voyager 1 art
Tuesday 24 July, 2012

Has Voyager 1 Really Left the Solar System?

You’ve probably heard this news being bandied around the internet, but the truth is that it’s not quite that clear cut.


Oort cloud sail ship
Wednesday 29 February, 2012

Story Idea: Oort Cloud Civilizations

Story idea by John H. Reiher Jr. about a civilization that lives in the Oort cloud that surrounds the solar system. They use huge solar sail ships to mine the cloud.


Apperture_Mars
Saturday 25 February, 2012

Terraforming via Telepresence and Telerobotics

Engineers and scientists located at NASA or aboard the International Space Station can control the motions of a number of remote controlled vehicles that would work in concert to terraform Mars.


trans-neptunian objects
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.


Sedna
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.