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Tag Archives: Space
First Planet of the Sun-like Star with possibility of Liquid Water
NASA’s Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered … Continue reading
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Long awaited satellite to monitor water cycle reaches orbit
The 658kg (1,450 lb) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) this week carried a payload composed of a single instrument – the Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS). The SMOS is … Continue reading
NASA live broadcast of LCROSS impact
NASA’s Lunar Prospector first detected some hydrogen signatures in craters on the dark side of the moon in 1999. Ever since, researchers have been keen to confirm the presence of water on the moon. The Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing … Continue reading
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Water found on the moon – what will it mean for the future?
Newspapers and websites around the world are buzzing with the news that water and hydroxyl (hydrogen and oxygen) molecules have been found in the polar regions of the moon. NASA announced yesterday that instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed that … Continue reading
Swift snaps our best-ever ultraviolet image of neighboring Andromeda Galaxy
In a galaxy far, far away … about 2.5 million light years, in fact, lie approximately 20,000 hot, young stars and dense clusters that comprise the Andromeda Galaxy. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, was recently captured … Continue reading
A NEW EQUATION FOR LIFE
Astrobiologists are trying to work out a mathematical equation to quantify how suitable other planets are for life, similar to the famous Drake Equation for judging the chances of contacting extraterrestrial civilizations. The exercise could help future generations figure out … Continue reading
Newfound world may plunge to fiery doom
A newly discovered planet that whips around its star in less than a day may have been found mere cosmic moments before its demise. The planet, WASP-18b, is one of the “hot Jupiter” class of planets that are huge in … Continue reading
THREE FACES OF A NEBULA
The latest view of the Trifid Nebula serves as fresh evidence that good things definitely come in threes: This star-illuminated cloud of gas and dust gets its name from its three-lobed appearance (via the Latin word “trifidus”), and the European Southern … Continue reading
NASA Research Reveals Major Insight Into Evolution of Life on Earth
Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found. By comparing proteins present in more than 3000 different prokaryotes – a type of single-celled … Continue reading
X-ray telescope to shed light on dark energy
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Russia’s Roskosmos space agency are joining forces to try and shed some light on the poorly understood phenomenon referred to as ‘dark energy’. In 2012 the German extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope … Continue reading
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Researchers found First Discovery of Life’s Building Block in Comet
NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. “Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time … Continue reading
In space, worms help study microgravity effects
A transparent roundworm could reveal the biological effects of microgravity and space radiation, and perhaps provide clues on how to protect future human astronauts headed for the moon, Mars and beyond. The C. elegans worm’s biological responses proved eerily similar … Continue reading
SpacE: Google Earth event hints at moon mapping
Google announced plans Thursday to hold a press conference on July 20 in Washington, D.C., to discuss “a very special announcement about the newest addition to Google Earth,” according to an invitation sent to reporters. Further details were not included, … Continue reading
SpacE: NASA’s new Ares I rocket Launched
PROMONTORY, Utah–”This is the world’s biggest solid rocket motor.” Those eight words, with which Kevin Rees described the Ares 1 rocket to me on Monday, are at once entirely understated, and hugely consequential. Rees is the director of test services … Continue reading
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SpacE: NASA Scientists Find Evidence for Liquid Water on a Frozen Early Mars
NASA scientists modeled freezing conditions on Mars to test whether liquid water could have been present to form the surface features of the Martian landscape. Researchers report that fluids loaded with dissolved minerals containing elements such as silicon, iron, magnesium, … Continue reading
SpacE: Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at Last
PASADENA, Calif. — A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch — a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, called astrometry, was first attempted 50 years ago to search for planets outside … Continue reading
SpacE: Nearby Star May Be Getting Ready to Explode
Betelgeuse, a star so large its shape can be seen through the Hubble Space Telescope. Bye-bye, Betelgeuse? The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by U.C. Berkeley researchers Tuesday. The … Continue reading
