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Unusual Asteroid Keeps Spinning Faster, And We Don’t Know Why
“…at 5.8 kilometers (3.6 miles) across it’s large enough to cause no small amount of pain were it to hypothetically hit. What’s more, the asteroid’s path brings it close enough that enough of a change in its 524-day orbit could cause us to rethink our concerns.” By MICHELLE STARR via science alert The near-Earth asteroid responsible for the spectacular annual … Continue reading
NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space
“”All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.” by Roxana Bardan via NASA Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the … Continue reading
Microbial Lifeforms Likely Thrived on Mars in Ancient Past, Scientists Say
“The apparently barren lifeless planet that is Mars nowadays might have harbored microscopic life at some point in the distant past…” by Andrei Dargalin via sputniknews If these microbes did exist on Mars, however, their unique “eating habits” likely played a major role in the Red Planet becoming much cooler than it supposedly was before. The apparently barren lifeless planet … Continue reading
Russian Observatories Discover New Asteroid Hurtling Towards Earth
“The detection of the new asteroid comes as the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently released pictures of an experimental mission to collide its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) craft spacecraft with an asteroid.” by Svetlana Ekimenko via sputni8knews NASA released pictures of its experimental Double Asteroid Redirection Mission (DART) to collide a spacecraft with an asteroid recently, … Continue reading
What Happened to the Astronaut Who Was Lost in Space For 311 Days?
Sergei Krikalyov; born 27 August 1958) a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut and a prominent rocket scientist, was a veteran of six space flights and ranks third to Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko for the most time spent in space: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes. Krikalev was stranded on board the Mir station during … Continue reading
We Can Find Alien Life Within 25 Years, Astrophysicist Claims
“This time-frame, he argues, is ambitious but not “unrealistic”.” via unexplained-mysteries image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The James Webb Space Telescope may not find evidence of alien life, but the next telescope probably will. Sasha Quanz – an astrophysicist at Switzerland’s federal technology institute ETH Zurich – recently suggsted that we could find evidence of life on other worlds within … Continue reading
Men’s Brains ‘Shrink’ After Birth of First Child, Research Shows
“Such changes to the brain explain some previous studies, including ones suggesting that males may also suffer from postpartum depression to some extent…” by Tim Korso via sputniknews Pregnant women also undergo changes to their brain structure to accommodate for upcoming changes in their lives, in addition to shifts in hormone production related to bearing a child. However, similar changes … Continue reading
NASA Finds Organic Matter in Rock Samples on Mars
“”SHERLOC’s analysis indicates the samples feature a class of organic molecules…” by Arin Waichulis via space explored Earlier today, NASA briefed the public on the Perseverance rover’s current status on Mars, discussed highlights from the mission so far, and announced the discovery of organic molecules that could be associated with life. But this discovery comes with an 82 million-mile caveat. … Continue reading
Space Sounds Very Eerie in this New NASA Audio Clip
“The resulting audio is undeniably creepy…” via unexplained-mysteries Image caption/credit: The cluster is situated 250 million light years away/ NASA The newly released clip is a processed recording of sound waves rippling through clouds of gas and plasma. The iconic tagline from the movie ‘Alien’ states – “in space, no-one can hear you scream” – and in the vacuum of … Continue reading
What Would Happen If All the Planets of the Solar System Aligned?
In 1609, famous astronomer Johannes Kepler published the first two of his three laws of planetary motion, which held that planets move around the sun in ellipses, not circles (as had been widely believed up to that time). He also stated that planets speed up as they approach the sun and slow down as they move away. Then, in 1619, … Continue reading
