Currently browsing: SPACE /SCIENCE /TECH /HEALTH
Astronomers Discover a “Twin” Planet to the Mysterious, Long-Predicted Planet Nine
By NICOLE KARLIS via Salon.com Of all the planets that humans have discovered in other solar systems, most of them orbit close and tight to their parent star. That’s partially due to the selection effect: the easiest-to-spot exoplanets (meaning a planet outside of our solar system) are those that are close enough to their star (or stars). Hence, finding a … Continue reading
Bacterium Survived Outside ISS for an Entire Year
via unexplained-mysteries Scientists have identified a bacterium that seems surprisingly capable of surviving in the vacuum of space. Scientists have long speculated over what processes might have given rise to life on other worlds. One such process, which is known as panspermia, involves life from one planet being transported to another on asteroids and comets that have come into contact … Continue reading
Astronomers Discover ‘Celestial Highway’ that May Speed up Travel through our Solar System
Headline Image caption & credit: An illustration of the planets in our Solar System and the missions sent to explore them. © Jenny Mottar / NASA. via RT: Astronomers have discovered a “celestial highway” to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. The development raises the prospect of rapidly sending crafts across vast swathes of space. … Continue reading
Did a 9th Planet Our ‘Escape’ our Solar System Billions of Years Ago ?
Headline image caption & credit: Our solar system may have once had at least one additional planet. Image Credit: NASA via unexplained-mysteries: Scientists have found evidence to suggest that another world once existed between Uranus and Saturn. While much of the effort involved in tracking down the rumored ‘Planet Nine’ has focused on exploring the outer reaches of our solar … Continue reading
Unusual Deep Space Signals in Antarctica May Indicate Existence of Parallel Universe
Stephen Ornes via Astronomy Last spring, a report from the world’s largest neutrino telescope — a sprawling grid of detectors woven into Antarctica’s ice — coincided with a blaze of hyperbolic headlines. They teased the possibility of an anti-universe where, from our point of view, time runs backward and the Big Bang represents an end, not a beginning. While it’s … Continue reading
Radiation from Big Bang Translated into Binary to See if There’s a Message from “The Creator”
James Felton IFL Science Back in 2006, in a piece published in Modern Physics Letters, two physicists proposed that if a “Creator” of the universe exists, and they were the kind of creator that felt like leaving a message for intelligent beings to eventually discover, then the cosmic microwave background would be a “stupendous” place to place it. Now, an … Continue reading
Rogue Earth – What If Earth Was Ejected from the Solar System?
The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations but changing neighbourhoods constantly. Fortunately space is big, and so the stars of the Milky Way are very unlikely to hit us. Unfortunately, they don’t have to hit anything … Continue reading
China Activates Nuclear-Powered ‘Artificial Sun’, TEN TIMES Hotter Than the Real Thing
Beijing has successfully powered up its “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, China’s People’s Daily reported on Friday. It’s designed to be a clean energy source, similar to the real Sun. Made to replicate the natural reactions that occur in the sun using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuels, the HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China’s largest and … Continue reading
Amateur Astronomer Alberto Caballero May Have Found Source of Wow! Signal
This is an incredible development. This study suggests the source of the ‘WOW! signal’ may have come from a planet similar to Earth circling its own sun-like star! Bob Yirka via Phys.org Amateur astronomer and YouTuber Alberto Caballero, one of the founders of The Exoplanets Channel, has found a small amount of evidence for a source of the notorious Wow! … Continue reading
Chernobyl Fungus Could Shield Astronauts from Cosmic Radiation
Stephen Johnson Big Think A recent study tested how well the fungi species Cladosporium sphaerospermum blocked cosmic radiation aboard the International Space Station. When astronauts return to the moon or travel to Mars, how will they shield themselves against high levels of cosmic radiation? A recent experiment aboard the International Space Station suggests a surprising solution: a radiation-eating fungus, which … Continue reading
