Planet Habitability Could Depend on Its Interior Composition Rather than Atmospheric Conditions

SPACE 05.05.2019 22:30 PM

Colleagues from Carnegie propose the concept of planetary interiors as the main player in habitability.

Electricity Generated From a Plutonium Derivative

05.04.2019 22:30 PM

Scientists in the UK have generated electricity from americium, a rare chemical element derived from plutonium that could power future space missions for up to 400 years.

Saturn’s Moon Shows Signs Of Life

05.04.2019 08:37 AM

Titan - Saturn’s moon that is likened to that of the Earth because of its physical characteristics is beginning to show signs of life.

Aurora Station: The First Outer Space Luxury Hotel

05.03.2019 07:44 AM

With training, a small deposit and a large fare, the luxury hotel is targeted for launch in 2021. Orion Span, a Houston-based company, is looking to put the world's first luxury hotel in space by 2021, followed by its first guests the following year.

Scientists Track Giant Ocean Vortex From Space

05.02.2019 16:56 PM

Researchers have found a new way to use satellites to monitor the Great Whirl, a massive whirlpool the size of Colorado that forms each year off the coast of East Africa, they report in a new study.

10 Years Later, NASA Explains Why Two Rocket Launches Were Failures

05.02.2019 11:59 AM

NASA lets everyone in on what exactly happened to two Taurus XL launches. A little more than a decade ago, on February 24, 2009, a Taurus XL rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a NASA satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Lower Ice Melt in Antarctica, Shocking Revelation from NASA

04.29.2019 22:01 PM

NASA has always been a source of forecasts in relation to climate change, but this time, they announced that they might have overestimated what would happen to the ice in Antarctica.

NASA Confirms Rapid Universe Expansion is Faster Than Expected

04.29.2019 06:39 AM

The expansion of the universe has long been an accepted fact, but scientists are worried that it might be expanding faster than they expected.

An Extraordinary Solar Halo Bewilders Local Residents

04.28.2019 10:23 AM

Lunar and solar halos are natural phenomenons with supernatural lore attached. There's a deep-rooted weather proverb: ring around the moon means rain soon.

The Dead Could Outnumber the Living on Facebook by 2070

04.27.2019 13:56 PM

The number of dead users could increase to 4.9 billion before the end of the century Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a section of the University of Oxford, have made a recent analysis that predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a drift that will have severe consequences on how we handle our digital heritage in the future.

Nuclear Weapons a Potential Source to Save The World From an Asteroid Strike

04.27.2019 09:09 AM

An asteroid impact may be low in probability, but it has massive consequences, and nuclear weapons may help us make sure it won’t happen.

Pericyte Injections in Astronauts

04.26.2019 07:28 AM

A new trial addresses a pressing issue in space exploration. We've always been seeing news about how we've been sending people to space and gathering endless data but we see very less of news about how these people are fairing in space and when they're back on earth.

China Announced Plans to Claim the Moon's South Pole for Their Research Station

04.25.2019 09:45 AM

TARGET ACQUIRED: China has stated that they have plans to build a research station in the region of the Moon's south pole.

OSCAR: The Space Janitor

04.25.2019 08:55 AM

Researchers are developing a cleanup CubeSat which would hunt down and de-orbit debris on the cheap using onboard nets and tethers.

How the Ice on Mars Melts

04.24.2019 16:02 PM

Researchers suggest a magma chamber may have been formed under the surface of Mars to help heat up the ice cap.