Could Dark Matter Predate the Big Bang? Olivia Hilferty, Undeclared, 2023 Source: Pixabay In the first prominent cosmological model, Aristotle placed Earth at the center of the Universe. A little less than 2,000 years later, Galileo’s idea of the Sun being at the center of our Galaxy became the accepted model. Throughout time, scientists have played […]
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Creating a home away from home: Architectural engineering in outer space By Annabelle Mathers, Civil Engineering, 2022 Photo: Shutterstock On Earth, structures serve a larger purpose than simply shielding us from the environment; they affect lifestyle patterns, health, psychological response, and adaptability. Those same qualities apply to structures on celestial bodies other than Earth. Not only
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How SpaceX can make fully reusable rockets By Drew Bodmer, Physics and Computer Science, 2022 Source: Pixabay On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board in a chilling reminder of the dangers of space travel. It was discovered that a piece of
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You Can’t Run Away If the Planet Is Already a Runaway By Lauren MacDonald, Environmental Science & Chemistry, 2022 Source: Pixabay Humanity has been dreaming about colonizing other planets for decades. Hundreds of science fiction stories and novels have been written about humans packing up and moving off of Earth, but it’s not as easy as
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Exoplanets are distant, mysterious cousins of our own home — obscure balls of rock and gas orbiting stars hundreds of light years away. It’s difficult to understand what might be on the surface: are they covered in global oceans? Made up of molten lava? Does it rain razor-sharp shards of glass at thousands of miles per hour?
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Source: NASA Of the estimated 200 billion planets in our universe, Earth is the only one known to sustain life. This is an incredibly small statistic, indicating that our planet has a specific amalgamation of characteristics that make it ideal for life to form and survive. With that being said, we might begin to think
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In the beginning, all that would become the universe was concentrated into an extremely small, dense, high-energy speck of space. In the fractions of seconds that followed, this singularity exploded: one hundred decillionths (10–35) of a second after, it expanded to nearly the size of a soccer ball; after one nonillionth (10–30) of a second,
Water from Asteroids, Water the Chances? Brian Sousa, Applied Physics, 2020 Source: Pixabay.com Though water makes up over 70 percent of our planet, we still do not know where it originally came from. Research has shown that the early universe was full of water, but the process of how it came to our planet is one
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Developing the theory of dark matter By Emily Dyer, Physics, 2022 Source: Shutterstock.com Human beings have a very limited view of space. The measurements we can take are often clouded by background radiation and interference from the infinite universe. This often causes astronomers to propose the existence of things we cannot see to explain what we
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