Space
- It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It
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A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth. This hypothetical cell membrane, modeled by a team of researchers, is composed of small organic nitrogen compounds and capable of functioning in liqui ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2015 - 9:35pm
- Why Are Earth And The Moon So Different? It May Be The Iron Rain
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Article - The Conversation - Mar 2 2015 - 6:22pm
- Emission Of Axions As Indirect Evidence For Dark Matter
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Undefined matter under the envelope of "dark matter" makes up over 80% of the universe- but it has never been directly detected. But the search is on to narrow it down and a new paper has computationally set limits to the properties of one of the ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2015 - 12:30pm
- Mars Lost An Ocean’s Worth Of Water
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Four billion years ago, a young Mars had enough water to bury its whole surface under 400 feet of ocean, but it is more likely that, as on Earth, it pooled. In the case of Mars, it probably formed an ocean occupying almost half of Mars’s northern hemispher ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2015 - 8:30am
- Giant Methane Storms Raging On Uranus
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Most of the times we have looked at Uranus, it has seemed to be a relatively calm place. Well, yes its atmosphere is the coldest place in the solar system. But, when we picture the seventh planet in our solar system invariably the image of a calming blue ...
Article - The Conversation - Mar 7 2015 - 1:00pm
- Hellfire And Damnation: Just Another Day In The Heart Of The Milky Way
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Researchers have detected about 20 rotating dust and gas discs in two clusters hosting exceptionally large and hot stars. The science mystery is how the rotating discs are able to withstand evaporation under such extreme conditions - if there is a Hell, th ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2015 - 1:04pm
- Ganymede: Inferring An Underground Ocean On Jupiter's Largest Moon
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Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, is thought to have once had more water than all the water on Earth's surface. But why? Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system and the only moon with its own magnetic field. The magnetic field causes au ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2015 - 8:52am
- The Lost Ocean Of Mars
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I’ve probably lost count of the number of ‘WATER ON MARS’ and related headlines I’ve read over the years. It’s an interesting case study of how a scientific theory gains support as more evidence is collected, until it becomes something ‘that is known’. Bu ...
Article - The Conversation - Mar 15 2015 - 9:32am
- Chiron May Possess Saturn-Like Rings
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When most people think of cosmic rings, they think of Saturn, but there are actually five bodies in our solar system known to have them. Rings of gas and dust also encircle Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune along with a "centaur", Chariklo, an homage ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2015 - 10:06am
- ISRO Successfully Tests Its GSLV Mk III Cryogenic Engine
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted a test on Saturday Mar. 14th to check the GSLV Mk III launch vehicle’s indigenous cryogenic CE-20 engine at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri, Tirunelveli district. “It ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 16 2015 - 3:02pm