Space

Space Fans Can Buy Apollo Program Mementos At Auction Today

RR Auction in Boston has a selection of pretty interesting Apollo program stuff, but you have to bid before 7PM. This is the perfect time to sell, the 50th anniversary of the moon landing is a month away, so it may not be the perfect time to buy. I have ma ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 20 2019 - 3:51pm

Frozen Sperm In Outer Space

Work presented today at European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology meeting showed said that a lack of difference in a range of sperm characteristics observed in frozen sperm samples exposed to microgravity and those maintained in ground conditio ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2019 - 5:00am

Solar Winds: The Magnetosphere

The Earth has a magnetic field with north and south poles. The magnetic field of the Earth is surrounded by the magnetosphere that keeps most of the particles from the Sun from hitting the Earth. ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 26 2019 - 11:47pm

GJ 357 D: Nearby Potentially Habitable Super Earth Is Just 31 Light Years Away

The first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system is only about 31 light-years away and a new paper models the conditions under which the planet GJ 357 d, discovered a few months ago, could sustain life. With a thick atmosphere, the pla ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2019 - 4:44pm

Could Light And Noise From Earth Attract Alien Attention?

Since the first use of electric lamps in the 19th century, society hasn’t looked back. Homes and streets are lit at all hours so that people can go about their business when they’d once have been asleep. Besides the obvious benefits to societies and the e ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 1 2019 - 5:01am

GJ 357d, Answer Super Earth or Sub Neptune? Then Report About Life Chances.

A t best we can speculate about GJ 357d. The case of GJ 357d we have a scientific paper which is about a planet that is in the habitable zone of its star, is at least six point one times the mass of the Earth, based on what we see, and we do not even know ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 1 2019 - 2:09pm

Mauna Kea Is Not DAPL. Build The Darn Telescope! TMT Will Connect The Mountain To The Heavens.

A s a person of native American descent and quite a bit of native culture I know a thing or two about that world view.  Granted my family is well assimilated and mixed in as many who are descendants of some of the first Native Americans to make contact wi ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 11 2019 - 10:21am

The Terrascope- Using Earth As A Lens

Ever since telescopes were first invented, by some dutch lens grinder in the late XVIth century, and then demonstrated to be invaluable tools for investigating the cosmos around us by Galileo Galilei in the early 1600s, there has been a considerable, stead ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 15 2019 - 6:29am

Jupiter's Gravitational Mystery May Have Been Caused By Collision With Another Planet

The Juno mission, designed to help scientists better understand Jupiter's origin and evolution, was launched in 2011 to map its gravitational and magnetic fields and probe the planet's deep, internal structure. It's found some mysterious gra ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2019 - 12:24pm

1990 MU & 1998 OR2 Are NOT Planet Killers, Can't Even Hit- Asteroid Warning Absurdities In Daily Express / Business Insider

Another two harmless asteroids being shared in the sensationalist press. I am getting PM's from some really scared people about these. These two asteroids not only are harmless, they never were even considered for the Sentry table. And no they are no ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 17 2019 - 9:47pm