Tag Archives: space

Tuesday, 21 March 2017 A cluster of stars, mysteriously isolated from the rest of the galaxy, is under investigation by Chilean astronomers. The cluster formed without explanation very recently, mystifying astrophysicists. The cluster is SH2, about 62 million light-years from Earth in the Fornax Constellation. It is a cosmic baby, …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   China is making a new-generation manned spaceship which rivals that of world-leading space powers, a space mission expert said. “Among the next generation of manned spaceships some foreign countries are developing, only the Orion spacecraft of the US can carry out a moon landing mission,” …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   A group of scientists have devised a plan to make Mars a little more hospitable to human life. A computer modeling experiment suggests that we can use a spacecraft to create a magnetic field around Mars, shielding it from the solar wind that’s stripping its …

Thursday, 2 March 2017 Scott Solomon, an evolutionary biologist with Rice University and the author of “Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution,” wrote on Nautilus that humans on Mars would be subjected to the “founder effect,” a phenomenon in which species entering new environments adapt very rapidly. …

Thursday, 13 July 2017 Researchers with the University of Cambridge have discovered the smallest star ever observed: larger than Saturn but smaller than Jupiter, with gravity 300 times stronger than the Earth’s and about 11 times stronger than that of the sun. The elegantly named EBLM J0555-57Ab is located about …

Thursday, 6 July 2017 NASA intends to test a new type of technology to protect the Earth from asteroids. In a press release, the space agency reported that the technology is called DART and it is based on a kinetic impact on the asteroid. According to the report, the blow …

Saturday, 1 July 2017 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that they plan to put the first Japanese astronaut on the moon by 2030 as part of the overarching mission from NASA and other space agencies to build a permanent space station in lunar orbit. The announcement came …

Monday, 30 May 2017   The sky over Mars may soon be shrouded by clouds: a scientist from the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has just patented a novel invention for creating an atmosphere on Mars. According to the researcher, it will help to control the weather on the Red Planet …

Saturday, 27 May 2017 The International Space Station, which has been orbiting Earth for almost 20 years, is targeted by micrometeorites and comet dust that may contain biogenic substances of extraterrestrial origin. In other words, alien lifeforms may be found on the outer surface of the ISS, Russian space agency …

Wednesday, 24 May 2017 WASHINGTON – A woman in the US state of California was arrested Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to smuggle space communications technology to China, the US Department of Justice said in a press release. Si Chen, 32, faces a 14-count indictment that alleges she violated the International …