Space

Stars die in lots of ways. Most low-mass stars like our Sun shed their outer layers and eventually fade to white dwarf stars. Larger ones prefer to burn out rather than fade away so they go supernova and create ultradense objects like neutron stars and bla ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2023 - 10:40am

Our Universe Is Brimming With Life. Artificial, To Be Sure

One of the things that keeps me busy these days is the organization of a collective publication by a number of experts in artificial intelligence and top researchers in all areas of scientific investigation. I will tell you more of that project at another ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 7 2023 - 6:44am

Ingenious Idea: Soyuz Crew in Tether Spin On Way to ISS- For Artificial Gravity- Almost No Extra Fuel

Joseph Carroll's ingenious idea is to attach a tether from the crewed Soyuz spaceship to its final stage- and use this as a counterweight to do the first ever real experiment in tethered artificial gravity. He has found a way to do this without using ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jul 23 2023 - 5:12pm

Asteroid Resources Could Create Space Habs For Trillions; Land Area Of A Thousand Earths

Planet dwellers like us naturally look first to other moons and planets for colonization. Yet, asteroids have enough resources to build space habs for trillions, with the same living space per person as for Earth. The idea is to use the materials from the ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jul 31 2023 - 6:50am

We Know Very Little About Black Holes

Astronomers have speculated that black holes eat slowly. A recent paper argues that their computer simulation shows just the opposite. Don't get too excited, this is still a computer simulation about theoretical physics, which isn't out there wi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2023 - 1:12pm

A Simple Way To Assess The Likelihood K2-18 b Host Alien Life. The Odds Are Almost 50-50.

H ow can you as a person who is not a scientist know if a given claim of having found alien life is valid? In 2014 I used the planet Kepler 186f as an object for discussing this very question. First of all, at best we can know the odds that a given plan ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 25 2023 - 3:42pm

Asteroid 2007 FT3 Will Not Hit Us, And Other Predictions For 2024. Suppose It Did Hit Us.

I n the past I have predicted certain things at the start of certain years. This is a selection of those which I recall, along with issues I am watching out for the next year. They include a solar eclipse that will happen, and an asteroid that is not li ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 2 2024 - 1:52pm

Revealed: The Color Of Uranus

It is commonly said that Neptune is azure blue and Uranus pale cyan green – but a new study shows the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought. Because Uranus’ appearance and color has changed over the decades in response to t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2024 - 8:42pm

Herds And Shepherds In Cosmology

The Universe is very large, and we are very small compared to it, not only in size. Creating a cosmology that attempts to explain the whole existing Universe is an obsession shared by all cultures. We think we now have the true cosmological model, like ma ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Jan 19 2024 - 1:41pm

Avi Loeb And Aliens: The Right And Wrong of Science Funding. (Also Bing Image Search Brings up Porno When you Search for him)

A vi Loeb he prolific Harvard astrophysicist, dances on the edge of cosmic controversy. His research spans black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the early universe, but it’s his extraterrestrial musings that have set tongues wagging. What he is right about i ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 11 2024 - 12:46pm