Photon Rocket May Achieve 99.999% the Speed of Light
THEORETICAL SPACECRAFTS Theoretical physics often lifts the sanctions we set on our own imaginations. Whether it’s exploring the possibility of warp drives or understanding the rate of the universe’s expansion, we are quick to explore the unknown on our chalkboards until our tech is ready for our ideas. In a similar deep-dive into the theoretical, a Norwegian professor argues in … Continue reading
Astronomers Discover an Enormous Object Orbiting at the Edge of Our Solar System
DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE It’s no Planet Nine, but the planetary body astronomers have found at the far edge of our solar system is a notable discovery nonetheless. They’ve named it DeeDee, for Distant Dwarf, and although it was first noticed in late 2016, little information about its physical structure was known back then. Now, new data from the Atacama … Continue reading
An Observed ‘Mini Big Bang’ in Space Could Disprove Einstein
Astrophysicists have detected a massive cluster of galaxies millions of light-years wide is hurtling through space at velocities so high that modern physics can’t explain their motion. The galaxies are all part of the Local Group, a ring of galaxies which contain the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies at the center. Andromeda, our closest neighbor, is predicted to collide with … Continue reading
8 Places in Space Where Extraterrestrial Life Might Be Possible
Moving to another planet for life is not a fantastic pipe dream anymore. What’s left to do is just to make hibernation or deep sleep for astronauts traveling long distance possible. Find eight planets that might become new homes for living beings one day. Enceladus On April 13, NASA announced that there is an excellent chance for life to inhabit … Continue reading
Icy Moon of Saturn Could Support Alien Life, Says NASA
Could there be alien life on Enceladus ? The space agency has discovered all the crucial ingredients for life in the oceans of Saturn’s icy moon. During a press conference held today, NASA scientists have revealed the discovery of molecular hydrogen in jets of water erupting from deep beneath the surface of Enceladus. Molecular hydrogen is important because on Earth … Continue reading
NASA’s Mars Probe (MRO) Sends Home Snapshots of Basin on Mars Where a Lake Once Existed
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped photos of the Melas Basin, which researchers believe was once the location of a 1,300-foot-deep lake when Mars was a watery world billions of years ago. In the MRO image, “a group of steeply inclined light-toned layers is bounded above and below by unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another),” … Continue reading
Incredible MASSIVE Tail of Comet PanSTARRS
More than 180 million km from Earth, something is happening to Comet PanSTARRS (C/2015 ER61). On April 4th and 5th, the comet brightened more than 6-fold, from magnitude +8.5 to +6.5, suddenly reaching the verge of naked-eye visibility despite its great distance from our planet. Now amateur astronomers are photographing an incredible tail. Gerald Rhemann sends this picture from his … Continue reading
Planet GJ 1132b Found to Have Earth-Like Atmosphere
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around GJ 1132b – a planet situated 39 light years away. For the first time ever, the atmosphere around an Earth-like world in orbit around a distant star has been directly detected by scientists – a breakthrough that takes us one step closer to discovering habitable extraterrestrial worlds beyond our own solar system. The planet, … Continue reading
4 Possible Candidates for Planet 9 Found, Further Observations Required to Confirm
Astronomers have been hunting for Planet Nine – the large, mysterious body thought to lurk at the edge of our solar system – ever since researchers at Caltech published evidence of its existence last year. Ordinary people have now joined the search. And they’ve made some intriguing finds. Participants in a citizen science campaign hosted by the crowdsourcing program Zooniverse, … Continue reading
If the Asteroid Doesn’t Kill You, Its Winds Will
When the big asteroid hits, will you breath a sigh of relief when you see on the news that it missed your city? Don’t. A new study found that the bite of an asteroid impact does less damage that the bark of the wind created when it hits the Earth’s atmosphere, even if it breaks up and never actually craters … Continue reading
