Space

Soaring, Buzzing, Floating, Hopping, Crawling And Inflatable Mars Rovers- Suggestions For UAE Mars Lander

The UAE plans its first Arab spaceship to Mars in 7 years. What's more, they plan to land it on Mars. With this, they are aiming high indeed, as Mars is probably the most difficult place to land a spacecraft in the inner solar system. I have no idea w ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 7 2017 - 1:57pm

UV & Cosmic Radiation On Mars- Why They Aren't Lethal For The "Swimming Pools For Bacteria"

I thought I'd post this because there are many who haven't followed the latest findings, who still think that present day life on the surface of Mars is absolutely impossible  because of UV light, ionizing radiation, and perchlorates, and becaus ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 22 2014 - 7:20am

Solar System Prehistory: What Caused The Birth Of The Sun?

Researchers have come step closer to understanding the birth of the sun. A team led by Dr Maria Lugaro and Professor Alexander Heger, from Monash University, have investigated the solar system's prehistoric phase and the events that led to the birth ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2014 - 3:47pm

1RXS: Destruction Of 3 Stars By Black Holes Detected

Researchers have reported registering three possible occasions of the total destruction of stars by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.  They astrophysicists used data obtained by X-ray orbiting observatories ROSAT and XMM-Newton. The for ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2014 - 8:54am

The Black Hole Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

At the ends of the Universe there are black holes billions of times the mass of our sun. These giant quasars feed on interstellar gas, swallowing large quantities of it non-stop- and that is how they can be detected: The light that is emitted by the gas a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2014 - 9:12am

Markarian 335: Rare Blurring Of Black Hole Light 324 Million Light Years Away

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding the supermassive black hole Markarian 335: a compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole- the corona- has mo ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 1:38am

Why Mars Surface Life May Leave No Traces In Its Atmosphere: Our Rovers May Need To Go Up Close To See It

This idea goes back in 1967. James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis, found a way to use a planetary atmosphere to detect life. He suggested that we look for simultaneous presence of pairs of gases like oxygen and methane that react together. We ...

Article - Robert Walker - Feb 3 2017 - 6:14pm

Sorok, Hylabrook And The Mysteries Of Space Dust

The first analysis of space dust collected by a special collector onboard NASA's Stardust mission and sent back to Earth for study in 2006 suggests the tiny specks, which likely originated from beyond our solar system, are more complex in composition ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 3:53pm

Diffuse Interstellar Bands: Material Mystery In The Milky Way

Astronomers have produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way, which could move science closer to cracking a stardust puzzle nearly a century old.  The researchers say their work demonstrates a new way of uncovering the loc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 1:23pm

Hypatia Catalog- Solar Neighborhood Is Not A Mixed Salad, It's A Layered One

The Hypatia Catalog is the largest catalog ever produced for stellar compositions and seeks to help in understanding the properties of stars, how they form, and possible connections with orbiting planets. Named after one of the first female astronomers, w ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2014 - 10:15am