Space

Likely 2040 Before Mars Samples Returned Safely, Legally-Yet Not Likely To Return Life- Needs To Be Detected In Situ First

ESA have just signed a letter of intent to co-operate with NASA on a Mars sample return mission (see Agencies aim to bring back rocks from Mars). I hope this does not mean a change of focus for ESA, from in situ searches, to a sample return. This expensiv ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 5 2019 - 12:26pm

Fake Asteroid Impact Meme By The Daily Express- Invented Dates And Probabilites For 2014 JO25, And 2014 AG5

The Daily Express run this fake meme on many of their fake asteroid stories. It is riddled with errors and outright lies. The red top tabloid papers in the UK are well known for just making stuff up. The most famous red top tabloid story which ran in The ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 15 2019 - 6:50pm

"Super Positive" Outcomes For Search For Life In Hidden Extraterrestrial Oceans Of Europa And Enceladus

The ancient oceans of Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's tiny Enceladus are hidden beneath an ice sheet kilometers thick. They may have ET microbes, even multicellular swimming creatures around hydrothermal vents. Or they could have imperfectly repro ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 19 2019 - 11:55am

GRB190114C: No Longer Speculation, Tera-Electron-Volt Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected

While they last, gamma-ray bursts outshine stars and even galactic quasars. They are the most energetic phenomenon known to humankind, resulting from the formation of neutron stars or black holes as dying stars collapse. They are triggered by outflows of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2019 - 11:07am

Too Late For NASA / ESA To Legally Return Mars Unsterilized Sample To Earth By 2032- Protecting Earth's Environment A Priority

NASA have put a great deal of work into the engineering for a sample return but I can't find any papers or blog posts or any sign of prepration for the legal side of the return mission. We are strongly protected by many environmental laws and laws to ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 27 2019 - 6:00pm

Protecting Earth's Environment For A Mars Sample Return- Has NASA Started The Legal Process Yet?

This is the latest of several articles I've done about NASA / ESA’s plan to return a sample from Mars. The samples would be geological ones, but they also could contain life indeed NASA motivate the mission by the possibility of life, especially past ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 27 2019 - 6:00pm

What Food Can You Share With An ET?

So, you are invited to a dinner by extraterrestrial hosts. Do you accept the invitation? And if so, which foods and beverages would be safe to eat? And, could you actually live long term on ET food? Or the other way around, if you have an ET guest, what f ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 2 2019 - 10:03pm

Our Weird Orderly Solar System, Planets Like XO7 b Show Us How Weird We Are.

O ur bizarre solar system has no hot Jupiter.  XO-7 b is a hot Jupiter which orbits its star once roughly every 3 days (1). Of all the solar systems in the heavens ours seems to be most unusual.  Our solar system has orderly circular orbits, with rocky pl ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 9 2019 - 7:19pm

AGC 203001: A Whole Galaxy Ringed By Hydrogen Gas

A ring of hydrogen gas with a diameter of 380,000 light-years- 4 times that of our Milky Way- has been discovered shrouding the galaxy named AGC 203001, 260 million light-years away from us. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2020 - 12:51pm

Is The Red Giant Betelgeuse About To Explode?

Every season has its characteristic star constellations in the night sky. Orion – one of the most recognizable – is distinctly visible on crisp, clear winter nights in the northern hemisphere. The constellation is easy to spot even in light-polluted citie ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2020 - 6:30am