Space

Challenges for Orion and SLS: An Interview with GAO Director

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 21 2014 - 5:11pm

German Students Aim to Put Cyanobacteria on Mars to Generate Oxygen

Mars is a very harsh and hostile environment for future human explorers and like any other known planet it has no breathable air. ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:43pm

KKs3: The Milky Way Gets A New Dwarf Galaxy Neighbor

Our Milky Way is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the ‘Local Group’, a collection that includes the famous Andromeda galaxy and many other far smaller objects. And now one more, a tiny and isolated dwarf galaxy almost 7 million light ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 10:00am

Rosetta Instrument Will Make Invaluable Discoveries, Says ESA Scientist Matt Taylor

On Dec. 10th, ESA announced the latest important discovery regarding comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet has found the water vapor from its target to be significantly different to that found on Earth. ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:32pm

A Brief History Of Exo-Earths And The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

Artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system. ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm

Keep Calm and Rove on: Oppy Struggles with Flash Memory Problems

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 4 2015 - 12:30pm

Gyrochronology: How To Accurately Determine The Age Of A Star

By observing and surveying 30 cool solar-type stars in the 2.5 Billion-year-old cluster NGC 6819 an international research team has created an analytical procedure for accurately determining the ages of stars with knowledge of their masses and rotation pe ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 8:30am

Recipe For A New Earth: One Cup Silicon, 1/4 Tsp Sulfur, Dash Of Asteroid Water...

How might you make a new Earth? Our Terran "test kitchen" has given us a detailed recipe, it just wasn't clear how transposable it was in other areas, the same way a recipe in Los Angeles might not work as well in Denver. Now, astronomers ha ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2015 - 6:38pm

What Makes One Alternate Earth More Habitable Than Another?

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Article - The Conversation - Jan 6 2015 - 11:00pm

Why Did All Those Stars Disappear?

In a new ESO image of LDN 483 and its surroundings, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent), some of the stars are missing. But it's not a portent of doom, it's space pollution- gas and dust are obscuring ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 2:45pm