Elon Musk explains why he launched a car toward Mars — and the reasons are much bigger than his egoBusiness Insider - Dave Mosher• In February, SpaceX launched an electric car toward Mars using its newest rocket, called Falcon Heavy.• Many people, especially scientists, questioned the choice of payload and destination.• SpaceX's
Magnetism NASA Believes It Knows How To Make Mars Green AgainForbes - Meriame BerbouchaNASA is thinking about introducing an artificial magnetic field near Mars so that it can develop an atmosphere which would hopefully help Mars support life and liquid surface water in the future. If introduced,
Asteroids Dinosaurs would have survived if asteroid hit Earth elsewhere, scientists claimThe Washington PostA large asteroid strike happens only once every 100 million years. And a controversial new report suggests the K-Pg impact was an exceptionally unlikely shot. In a paper published Thursday in the journal
Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Strongest in a Decadespace.com - Sarah Lewin This article was updated at 5:44 p.m. EDT to indicate that a coronal mass ejection was observed coming from the site of the solar flare. Early this …
Record-breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earthapnewsarchive.com - By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to …
Solar System Jupiter is oldest planet in solar system, ancient meteorites showThe Washington Post - By Ben GuarinoJupiter formed in a geologic blink. Its rocky core coalesced less than a million years after the beginning of our solar system, scientists reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo We're In For A Triple Celestial Treat, And Here's How To Enjoy Ithuffingtonpost.com - Lee Moran Turn your eyes to the sky this Friday night and prepare for a series of spectacular celestial sights. A penumbral lunar eclipse, a full moon and a …
Play buttonNeutron Stars Heisenberg's Astrophysics Prediction Finally Confirmed After 80 YearsForbes - Ethan SiegelLight coming from the surface of a neutron star can be polarized by the strong magnetic field it passes through, thanks to the phenomenon of vacuum birefringence. Detectors here on Earth can measure the
A new theory challenges everything astronomers thought they knew about how the Moon was createdBusiness Insider - Lindsay Dodgson, Business Insider UKYet new research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has put forward a theory that the Moon may have actually formed from a series of large impacts, rather than just one. The study, published
The Woman Who Might Find Us Another EarthThe New York Times - By Chris JonesLike many astrophysicists, Sara Seager sometimes has a problem with her perception of scale. Knowing that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, and that each might contain hundreds of billions of
Inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA's Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research FacilityPopular Mechanics - By Jacqueline DetwilerAt 2:00 a.m. in the blond hills of La Cañada Flintridge, California, one house stands lit among the others—an open eye in a sleeping town. Bryn Oh, the woman who lives in the house, helps her son Devyn,
Controversial Thirty Meter Telescope project could be moved to the Canary IslandsWired UK - Amelia Heathman The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) could take up residence in Spain’s Canary Islands, instead of its proposed location of Hawaii, after difficult legal …
Record Supermoon and 9 More Can't-Miss Sky Events in NovemberNational Geographic - Andrew FazekasGet ready to see lunar pairings, meteor showers, and more this month. The coming month brings the roaring lion of meteor displays, dazzling planets, and plenty more reasons to look up at the night sky.
Elon Musk Just Shared His 4-Step Plan For Mars - Colonists Should Be "Prepared to Die"ScienceAlert - DAVE MOSHER Elon Musk wants to launch a million people to Mars in the event some apocalyptic disaster eventually ruins Earth. And he wants it to be somewhat …
No, The Universe Is Not Expanding at an Accelerated Rate, Say PhysicistsScienceAlert - Bec Crew Back in 2011, three astronomers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that the Universe wasn't just expanding - it was …
Play buttonBlack Holes Could Our Universe Have Arisen From A Black Hole?Forbes - Ethan SiegelAs a star’s core collapses, an event horizon forms, grows rapidly and then expands much more slowly over time. Image credit: Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universitat Hildesheim. If you go
Astronauts Traveling to Mars Will Have Their Brains Bombarded by RadiationGizmodo - Bryan Menegus Elon Musk made it pretty clear than anyone hoping to colonize the Red Planet has made a tactic agreement to be a blood sacrifice to SpaceX. Fine, no …
Did Boeing's CEO just kick off a billionaires' space race?csmonitor.com - NASA/Reuters The space race that first brought humans to the moon was propelled by a tense international rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. A …
There is a huge 'monolith' on Phobos, one of Mars's moonsBBC News - By Colin Barras"When people find out about that they are going to say, 'Who put that there? Who put that there?'" These are the words of Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, in 2009. He was talking about
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SpaceX SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter can go “well beyond” MarsTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonElon Musk just teased that one of SpaceX’s more future-focused projects might be more ambitious than previously thought. On Twitter, the SpaceX CEO revealed that the company’s Mars Colonial Transporter
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Play button New mini-moon discovered orbiting Earthslashgear.com - Chris Burns This isn’t April fools day, and we’re not pulling your leg – there is indeed a second rocky companion out in space orbiting Earth – besides our moon. …
Meet Dragonfly 44, the galaxy made of 99.9% dark matterWired UK - Sarah Griffiths A massive galaxy consisting almost entirely of dark matter has been discovered, using the world’s most powerful telescopes. Dark matter is the …
Play buttonSpaceX SpaceX releases gorgeous slow-motion footage of Falcon 9 rocketsThe Verge - Jacob KastrenakesSpaceX has put together an incredible reel of footage showing various Falcon 9 rockets throughout launch, separation, reentry, and landing. And while SpaceX does that extensively every time a rocket takes
A private spaceflight company just got approval to land a spacecraft on the moonMashable - Miriam KramerFor the first time, the U.S. government just gave a private spaceflight company the equivalent of a passport to the moon. Moon Express, a little-known spaceflight company, announced the federal approval
Deep Space Radiation Caused Heart Problems For Apollo AstronautsNBC News - Samuel Sarmiento, MDThe Apollo astronauts — the first men to land on the moon — took a giant leap for mankind. But the deep space radiation that dosed the men who left the Earth's orbit may have damaged their hearts, according
The Eagle has landed: 11 amazing facts about Apollo 11CNET - Michelle Starr On this day: 1969, July 20, humans for the first time walked on the moon. Here are 11 fascinating facts about the Apollo 11 mission.
Dwarf Planets Origin of ice on the Moon may be explained by this dwarf planet's 'darkest secret'Digital Trends - Dyllan Furness Amid news from NASA’s Juno and New Horizons missions, fresh interest has emerged in the Dawn mission to Ceres, following the discovery of craters …
