Space

Scientists have confirmed the existence of lonsdaleite, a rare hexagonal form of diamond named after British crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale, in ureilite meteorites from the mantle of a planet in our solar system. According to the new findings, a large ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2022 - 8:20am

The Strange, Shape-Shifting Bubble Around The Solar System

New research, published in Nature Astronomy ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Oct 21 2022 - 8:53am

WDJ2147-4035: Oldest Star In Our Galaxy Identified

A faint white dwarf star as well as the remains of its orbiting planetary system are over ten billion years old, according to a new estimate. WDJ2147-4035 is the oldest dead star with an evolved planetary system found to-date. A white dwarf is a star that ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2022 - 9:16am

Scientists Enrich Our Understanding Of 3200 Phatheon’s Orientation

Researchers from the U.S. ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Nov 14 2022 - 9:48pm

Case For Moon- Open Ended Positive Future For Humans Based On Planetary Protection- Executive Summary

Are you keen on humans in space, but skeptical about colonization of Mars as our first objective for space exploration? Do you think we will start with settlements supported from Earth, such as we already have in inhospitable places such as Antarctica? Do ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 2 2022 - 12:59pm

Why Doesn't NASA Respond To Public Concerns On Its Samples From Mars Environmental Impact Statement?

First for anyone who doesn't know, NASA’s perseverance rover is currently collecting small samples of rock and leaving them on the surface in tubes on Mars. NASA want to return them some time around 2033 and they plan to return its Mars samples of ro ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 23 2022 - 4:31am

Why Doesn't NASA Respond To Public Concerns On Its Samples From Mars Environmental Impact Statement? (short Version For Experts)

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 23 2022 - 4:32am

Why Resilient Humans Would Survive Giant Asteroid Impact- Even With Over 90% Of Species Extinct

This is something you hear said so often- that we risk being hit by an asteroid that could make humans extinct. But do we really? This is the article I’m commenting on, a recently breaking news story: Earth woefully unprepared for surprise comet or astero ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2022 - 10:53am

Two Possible Sites For The SWGO Gamma-Ray Detector Array

Yesterday I profited of the kindness of Cesar Ocampo, the site manager of the Parque Astronomico near San Pedro de Atacama, in northern Chile, to visit a couple of places that the SWGO collaboration is considering as the site of a large array of particle d ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 3 2023 - 7:31pm

A Very Large Hadron Collider?

Frontpage image: Illustration of spherical explosion (kilonova) of two neutron stars (AT2017gfo/GW170817) made by Albert Sneppen. STRONTIUM is one of those elements that get less coverage in chemistry courses all the way up to undergraduate level. These d ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 10 2023 - 1:14pm