Space

It's Alive Again: Monster Black Hole V404 Cygni Wakes After 26 Years

Over the past week, ESA's Integral satellite has been observing an exceptional outburst of high-energy light produced by the black hole V404 Cygni that is devouring material from its stellar companion in our Milky Way galaxy, almost 8000 light-years a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2015 - 10:24am

Paving Way for Mars Colonization

In order to send first human to Mars, plenty of pioneering activities must be taken. It’s a journey on an unprecedented scale in the history of human spaceflight, but like any other voyage, even the longest one, starts with a small, seemingly insignifican ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jun 29 2015 - 6:31pm

Asteroid Day Today, 30th June- Let's Find These Rocks And Deflect Them

Today, 30th June is asteroid day, to raise awareness of the searches astronomers do to detect and eventually deflect asteroids. This is your chance also to actually do something about them by signing the 100x petition (which has been signed by many famous ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 22 2015 - 5:47pm

Cheek Muscles Hold Up Better Than Leg Muscles In Space

It is well known that muscles need resistance (gravity) to maintain optimal health, and when they do not have this resistance, they deteriorate. A new report published in the July 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal, however, suggests that this might not be t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2015 - 8:00am

We're Not Alone, But The Universe May Be Less Crowded Than We Think

There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the Universe then might be expected, suggests a new study based on simulations and published this week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The simulations show the first results from the Renaissance Simulat ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2015 - 2:31pm

New Mars Colony Mission Crowdfunds its Way to the Red Planet

MarsPolar, a newly created international venture has started  raising funds  for their bold project to establish a permanent human colony on Mars. The team behind the project wants to collect at least $100.000 to cover the initial costs of their future en ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jul 3 2015 - 7:47am

We Could Find Aliens Any Day Now, SETI Scientists Say

ET phone Earth! We could be on the verge of answering one of the essential questions of humanity that has captivated our minds for centuries. ...

Article - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jul 12 2015 - 8:52am

Finally Seeing The Pluto System In All Its Glory

Pluto does not meet the definition of a planet but as we will see that does not diminish it.   Far from a random and uninteresting chunk of ice, with little local gravitational influence on it’s neighborhood, it is an example of binary planetoids with tan ...

Article - Hontas Farmer - Jul 15 2015 - 3:19pm

Thoughts from Pluto?

Pluto really does seem to have captured people’s imagination.  With the announcement that the (dwarf) planet is larger than we thought, a neighbour was asking me how one measured its size. This got me looking up some values in ‘ Pluto Is Larger Than Thoug ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jul 15 2015 - 2:33pm

Gaia14aae: Citizen Scientists Find A One-In-A-Billion Star

A type of two-star system known as a Cataclysmic Variable, where one super dense white dwarf star is stealing gas from its companion star, effectively 'cannibalizing' it, has been found by citizen scientists. It is the first known such system wh ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2015 - 4:31am