Showing posts from September, 2017
On the last day of the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage to discuss his company’s BFR project. In addition to sharing details on how the technology might be used to revolutionize lon…
Winter is coming – to Mars . In fact, according to a new Nature Geoscience study, it appears that it snows every night on the Red Planet, but not in the way you might expect. Rather than having widespread snow cover, the rusty red soil sees exp…
The Sun is used to having plenty of personal space, given that its nearest stellar neighbor, the Alpha Centauri system, is located about four light years away. While that's not very distant in cosmic terms, it's wide enough for our solar…
In the hunt for life beyond the Solar System, several things are key. First, we need to find worlds that are similar in size to our own. Second, they need to be close enough for us to study. And third, they need to pass in front of their star re…
For a few minutes in October 2014, a mysterious explosion occurred in a galaxy about 10.7 billion light-years away from Earth. The magnitude of the explosion was so intense that it produced 1,000 times more energy than all of the stars in its …
So, did you do enough science in school? If you believe in Nibiru it may be that you didn’t, according to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson . “It’s just fiction,” he says of Planet X – Nibiru. It’s up there with the end-of-the-world prophecy of…
The government of the United Arab Emirates recently in the next century or so. Their first step? A prototype city on Earth. This week officials launched the Mars Science City project, which will attempt to build "a viable and realistic mode…
Although Cassini is gone , it has dramatically changed what we know of Saturn and its moons. And while we know a lot more about the system, there are new mysteries that will have to wait to be solved. Among them is whether or not a possible moo…
A super-powered radio telescopes has turned the Earth into one giant eye --the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a multinational effort involving more than 100 researchers--all pointing to Sagittarius A*—the supermassive black hole at the center of…
NASA’s current priority when it comes to space travel is to get people to Mars sooner rather than later. The organization has said in the past that it’s unable to get people to the Red Planet, but projects from the likes of SpaceX have kept the …
The NASA-led program will see the two space agencies build a lunar space station much like the International Space Station (ISS) that can home astronauts and will orbit the moon. Dubbed the Deep Space Gateway, the station will allow astronauts …
Ripples in space-time generated by the collision of two black holes nearly two billion years ago have been captured by super-sensitive detectors in the US and Italy . This is the fourth time a gravitational wave has been observed, but the first …
