Showing posts from January, 2018
It takes almost between three to six months for a normal spacecraft to reach Planet Mars from Earth. A new concept space train called Solar Express is challenging that time frame: it would, hypothetically, be able to transport people and cargo fr…
“Mad” Mike Hughes shot into the limelight last year after announcing plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket with sponsor, of course, "RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” painted on the side. Well, unfortunately for Mike and thousands of curious onlo…
Donald Trump’s administration has touted big plans for NASA in the past few months, but it hasn’t been willing to put up much cash. So the White House has come up with a way to stretch the space agency’s budget further: Forwarding the bills for …
Astronomers have successfully managed to estimate the internal composition of a white dwarf. White Dwarfs are considered as one of the possible end products of stellar evolution, finding a heavier core with more oxygen than previous models sugge…
I’m not usually one of those “check out this beautiful planet photo” people (just joking, I am). But to be honest, the recent images currently coming from the citizen scientists looking at NASA’s Juno Spacecraft data are all incredible. I’m not …
Quantum gravity can be described in one word as a missing puzzle piece in the understanding of the known universe. In order to find this piece one needs to combine quantum theory and general relativity. There is no doubt about these theories that…
This week, Nature published a research article that challenges the theory of stellar evolution. "I think that, over the coming months, stellar astrophysicists will have to redo their calculations," said Gilles Fontaine, a physics pro…
Black holes don't just sit there munching away constantly on the space around them. Eventually they run out of nearby matter and go quiet, laying in wait until a stray bit of gas passes by. Then a black hole devours again, belching out a gia…
At the forefront of modern space exploration looms the possibility of manned missions to Mars. From the ambitious schemes of Elon Musk, to NASA’s hopeful plan, to the collaborative endeavor of the ESA and Russia, it seems as though every major s…
A chunk of rock which fell to Earth and was discovered in the deserts of Egypt may hold the key to our understanding of how the solar system was formed. The Hypatia stone, named for the first Western woman mathematician and astronomer, contains …
The telescope, which is worth £6.5billion, has been successfully tested in anticipation of its launch in 2019. Engineers working on the project are confident it will be able to capture starlight in focus and track astronomical targets. The James…
