Space

Crew Tether Spin For Artificial Gravity On Way To ISS- Stunning New Videos- Space Show Webinar- Sunday

Following on from Crew Tether Spin- With Final Stage- On Routine Mission To ISS- First Human Test Of Artificial Gravity?, I've got some great videos to share now, showing the Soyuz and final stage spinning to create artificial gravity, over the turnin ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jun 17 2017 - 10:04pm

Arsia Mons: Is There A Habitable Environment On This Martian Volcano?

The slopes of a giant Martian volcano nearly twice as tall as Mount Everest, called Arsia Mons, were once covered in glacial ice and they may have been home to one of the most recent habitable environments yet found on the Red Planet, according to new res ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 4:30pm

Lunar Body Tide: For The First Time We Can See How Earth Impacts The Moon

You can't seeit from here, but the moon is lopsided; that's because of its gravitational tug-of-war with Earth. The mutual pulling of the two bodies is powerful enough to stretch them both and they wind up shaped a little like two eggs with thei ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 1:39pm

Imagined Colours Of Future Mars- What Happens If We Treat A Planet As A Giant Petri Dish?

Kim Stanley Robinson in his famous Trilogy Red, Green and Blue Mars describes a science fiction future with Mars changing colour to green and then to blue. But what also about snowball white after a failed terraforming attempt? Or, what about purple, or b ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 5:47pm

Mega Earth Kepler-10C Discovery- Why Are Our Solar System's Planets So Different?

In our solar system, there are two basic kinds of planets- smaller, rocky terrestrials like Earth and Mars and then large gas giants like Neptune and Jupiter. Though a middle ground between those two is missing locally, NASA's Kepler mission has disc ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 12:08pm

13 Light Years Away: Two Planets Discovered Orbiting A Nearby Ancient Star In The Galactic Halo

Kapteyn's Star, named after Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn, who discovered it at the end of the 19th century, is the second fastest-moving star in the sky and belongs to the Galactic halo, an extended group of stars orbiting our Galaxy on very elli ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2014 - 11:11pm

GRB 140419A: A Huge Explosion From 12.1 Billion Years Ago Reaches Earth

A gamma-ray burst of light from the enormous explosion of a star more 12.1 billion years ago — shortly after the Big Bang — recently reached Earth and was visible in the sky. Gamma-ray bursts are believed to be the catastrophic collapse of a star at the e ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 11:06am

Theory Becomes Discovery: Kip Thorne's Bizarre Type Of Hybrid Star Found

In 1975, physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Żytkow proposed that there are hybrids of red supergiant and neutron stars that superficially resemble normal red supergiants, such as Betelguese in the constellation Orion, but differ in their distinct ch ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 1:06pm

Asymmetrical Magnetic Reconnection And The Solar Wind

Space looks empty but unseen to the naked eye, a wind of charged particles pummels us from the Sun, carrying a magnetic field with it. Sometimes this solar wind can break through the Earth’s magnetic field, but one of the questions about how this actually ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2014 - 10:36pm

Tidal Model Instead? Map Of Universe Shows Dwarf Galaxies Don't Fit Standard Cosmological Model

The standard cosmological model is the frame of reference for generations of scientists but some question its ability to accurately reproduce what is observed in the nearby universe.  Dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies defy ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 7:47pm