Humanity’s Most Distant Traveler 13 Billion Miles Away and Still Going After 37 Years
Humanity’s most distant spacecraft surprised its operators by answering the call to fire up rockets that have not been used in almost 40 years. As humanity’s first visitor to interstellar space, NASA’s Voyager 1 has revealed itself to be a trooper, answering commands that take almost 20 hours to arrive, and performing routine tasks and transmitting data back (another 20-hour … Continue reading
72 New Galaxies Discovered by ESO Astronomers
The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe. The discovery was made using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. The galaxies were situated in a patch of sky previously investigated by the Hubble Space Telescope and were identified … Continue reading
Earthworms Thrive in Simulated Martian Soil, Could Make Space Farms a Reality
A group of researchers from Wageningen University & Research has found that earthworms can thrive and reproduce in simulated Martian soil. Given that the creatures are a crucial factor in making soil fertile, that means the first colonizers of Mars might be able to grow food on the Red Planet. What we call Martian “soil” is in fact barren dust … Continue reading
Bacteria ‘That Was’t There Before’ Found on Hull of ISS, According to Russian Cosmonaut
This is most fascinating indeed. Alien or not, if alive, it is able to survive in space. Wouldn’t that tell us a lot about the “transfer” of life/bacteria throughout the cosmos.. via RT: Living bacteria were found on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS), and they might have extraterrestrial origins, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said. The microorganisms will … Continue reading
Will We Ever be able to Know If Our Universe is a Simulation?
Are we living in a simulation? A flurry of headlines says no: we need no longer worry about our lives being mere software spawned by a highly advanced supercomputer. These stories stem from a recent Science Advances paper about simulating quantum physics. One science magazine extrapolated from this to suggest that storing information about just a few hundred electrons needs a computer memory made up … Continue reading
Very Large ‘Asteroid 3200 Phaeton’ With Unusual Orbit Approaching Earth
The astronomer community at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University used its own Astro-Model simulation environment to produce a virtual image of object 3200 Phaethon approaching the Earth, plus the expected Geminids meteor shower. December 17, 2017 will see an interesting astronomic event in the form of object 3200 Phaethon approaching our planet. This is a fairly large asteroid nearly 5 … Continue reading
First Recorded Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua Looks Like Nothing Observed Before
For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. It appears to be a dark, … Continue reading
NASA Expert Says We Will Find Alien Life Within 20 Years
Alien life could be found within the next few decades, according to NASA scientists leading the exhaustive search. In recent years, capabilities have snowballed; the discovery of Pluto in 1930 was once thought a once-in-a-lifetime feat, yet not even 100 years later, over 3,500 exoplanets from thousands of star systems have since been located. Experts say the search is heavily … Continue reading
Interstellar Message Was Sent to Nearby System by Alien Hunters
Is someone out there listening ? If there are any intelligent aliens in the GJ 273 system, they can expect to hear from us about a dozen years from now. Last month, scientists and artists beamed a message to GJ 273, a red dwarf also known as Luyten’s star that lies 12.36 light-years from Earth, project team members revealed today … Continue reading
Computer Simulation Strengthens Case for the Presence of a Second Sun
Astronomer from Quebec Gilles Couture conducted a study using computer simulation. Because of this he was able to prove that early in the Solar system, stars, there was a “duet”. But one of them left our galaxy and flew in the space provided, leaving the Sun in splendid isolation. According to the study, conducted by the astronomer, the weight of the mysterious … Continue reading
