The “Lunar Ark” Project

Tibi Puiu of ZME Science recently presented a backup plan in case we screw up this planet for good: a “Lunar ark” that would store DNA from millions of species in Moon’s lava tubes. The project, first described in a paper presented by researchers at the...

Fly Me to the Moon (and Back)

November 14, 1969. Lightning strikes the mighty Saturn 5 rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 12 as it was steadily ascending into the Florida sky.  Sixteen seconds later, proving an old saying wrong, a second bolt of lightning struck the spacecraft. Still, the mission...