Bright Explosion on the Moon
By Dr. Tony Phillips | Science@NASA For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. “Lunar meteor showers” have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They’ve just seen the biggest explosion [...]
Read More →Living on Mars: What Would it be Like?
By Zachary Stieber | The Epoch Times The Mars One mission to Mars—one-way—has attracted more than 78,000 applicants only two weeks into the application process. So, if the mission is successful, what’s it going to be like for those who are chosen to go? Is it Dangerous? “Mars is no picnic.” —Mars One website Life is comparable [...]
Read More →Study: clean up space before dangerous debris collisions increase
By Liat Clark | Wired A study has estimated that dangerous space collisions will occur every five to nine years in our satellite and spacecraft orbit route if space junk is not effectively cleared soon. According to a report by the BBC, the study — carried out for the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee and announced at the Sixth [...]
Read More →Two Water Worlds Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Found Orbiting a Kepler- Mission Star
The Daily Galaxy Astronomers have a “Water World” planetary system orbiting the star Kepler-62. This five-planet system has two worlds in the habitable zone — the distance from their star at which they receive enough light and warmth that liquid water could theoretically exist on their surfaces. Modeling by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) [...]
Read More →Soviet Spacecraft Possibly Spotted On Mars
By Melissa Stusinski | Inquisitr A Soviet spacecraft may have been spotted on Mars by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Space fans from Russia scanned NASA images to discover the spacecraft’s remains. The craft landed on Mars in 1971, but mysteriously stopped working. The craft, Mars 3, worked for just 15 seconds before it stopped communications. It [...]
Read More →Most of Mars’ Atmosphere Is Lost in Space
By Mike Wall | Live Science The planet Mars lost most of its original atmosphere long ago when huge amounts of gas escaped into space, leaving only a wispy remnant behind, scientists say. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has revealed that a light variant of the gas argon is relatively depleted in Martian air, bolstering a [...]
Read More →First Tests For Fusion-Powered Spaceship Propulsion Successful
By Mark Hoffman | Science World Report University of Washington researchers and scientists at a Redmond-based space-propulsion company are currently building components of a fusion-powered rocket, which could enable astronauts to travel to Earth’s neighboring planet Mars within weeks instead of months, at speeds considerably faster than feasible until now. The current travel speeds using fuel [...]
Read More →Asteroid-Smashing Space Probes Set for Cosmic Crash in 2022
By Miriam Kramer | Space.com Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the space rock. The ambitious European-led Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, or AIDA, is slated to launch in 2019 to send two spacecraft — [...]
Read More →The Apollo 11 Engine Recovered From The Depth Of The Sea
The Daily Galaxy ”What an incredible adventure. We are right now onboard the Seabed Worker headed back to Cape Canaveral after finishing three weeks at sea, working almost 3 miles below the surface. We found so much,” says Amazon.com founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos of his expedition to recover the Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engine. “We’ve seen an underwater [...]
Read More →Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate
Science Blog Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new study appearing online today. The heliosphere is a region of space dominated by the Sun and its wind of energetic particles, and which is thought to be enclosed, [...]
Read More →U.S. Restarts Plutonium Production for Powering Space Probes
By Naveen Athrappully | The Epoch Times The U.S. Department of Energy has produced its first batch of non-weapons grade plutonium, since a nuclear reactor shutdown 25 years ago, NASA officials said on Monday. According to a Reuters report, this will be used to power future space probes. As plutonium-238 naturally radiates heat, it can [...]
Read More →NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
JPL/NASA An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life — in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in [...]
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