For hand towels, astronauts get those little vacuum-packed pucks that you kind of have to unravel into a towel. But what happens when you actually put the towels to use?
Two Nova Scotia high school students, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, submitted this experiment to Canadian Space Agency and got to see astronaut Chris Hadfield actually test it out on … Read the rest of this article
The continuing growth in space debris poses an increasing threat to economically vital orbital regions. Next week, hundreds of top experts from across the globe will meet at Europe’s largest-ever debris forum to share their latest research findings and discuss potential solutions.
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All human-made space objects result from the near-5000 launches since the start of the space age. About 65% …
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
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The artist’s concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, …
Like many of his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space navigator devotes a great deal of time to crafting, and contemplating, computer-generated 3-D models of these intriguing nomads of the solar system.
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This spectacular image of comet Tempel …
Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did and may have originated outside our solar system, scientists say.
In the science fiction movie Prometheus (2012), the building blocks of life were provided by a proto-human species from another planet.
Image credit: Prometheus (2012) from Twentieth Century Fox
Moore’s Law is … Read the rest of this article
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was less than a billion years old, its mere existence challenges our theories of galaxy evolution.
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Artist’s impression of starburst galaxy HFLS3. The galaxy appears as little more than a faint, …
Chris Lewicki’s (President of Planetary Resources) latest update contains some details on Planetary Defense, a big announcement about a new investor and partner, and advance notice of a special event next week.
I’m at the 3rd International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in Flagstaff, AZ this week. The conference gathers experts from around the world to discuss our … Read the rest of this article
In science fiction, finding antimatter on board your spaceship is not good news. Usually, it means you’re moments away from an explosion.
In real life, though, finding antimatter could lead to a Nobel Prize.
On April 3rd, researchers led by Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting of MIT announced that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle detector operating onboard the International Space … Read the rest of this article
This beautiful aurora illuminates the sky over the snow-clad landscape near Tromsø, Norway.
Bright aurora illuminating the sky over Norway (near Tromsø) on 17 February 2013. Image credit: ESA–S. MazroueiThese colourful displays are produced when electrically charged particles travelling from the Sun in the solar wind are channelled along Earth’s magnetic field lines and strike atoms high in the … Read the rest of this article
More ignorance about space exploration and astronomy. People in the European Union were asked a simple question: How long does it take to get to Mars? Sadly, most people haven’t a clue! And this comes on foot of the announcement by the Dutch based company Mars One that they will shortly be asking for volunteers for a one way trip … Read the rest of this article
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