Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraScience New Mars crater exposes mysterious darker materialFox News - Chris CiacciaThe Red Planet was hit by an asteroid sometime within the past three years and the resulting crater has exposed a "darker material" underneath Mars' reddish dust that is currently perplexing scientists.
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpaceX SpaceX Falcon 9 wins Korean launch contract as 2019 mystery missions persistteslarati.com - Eric Ralph SpaceX has silently announced that Falcon 9 won a contract for a South Korean military communications satellite, currently scheduled to launch from …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraScience Neptune Is a Windy, Chilly, and Baffling Planet. Let's Go!WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus It was just after midnight at mission control center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carl Sagan was exuberant. The Voyager 2 spacecraft had …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpace This Incredible Orbit Map of Our Solar System Makes Our Brains AcheScienceAlert - EVAN GOUGH, UNIVERSE TODAY If you want to know what a talent for scientific visualizations looks like, check out Eleanor Lutz. She's a PhD student in biology at the University …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraBlack Holes Our Universe Might Be Trapped Inside An Enormous Black Hole!Mashable - Afiya QureshiFor almost a century, the Big Bang theory has been bandied as the ultimate theory that describes the origin of the universe. The universe, as we know by it, was created in a massive explosion that created
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraAsteroids NASA's spacecraft is orbiting closer to an asteroid than ever beforeCNN - By Michelle Lou, CNN(CNN) — In the dark and lonely place that is space, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has managed to reach a new level of proximity as it studies an asteroid. After a maneuver, the spacecraft in NASA's asteroid
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraVery Large Telescope The Very Large Telescope gets upgrade to aid its hunt for habitable exoplanetsDigital Trends - Georgina Torbet The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is growing even bigger. The latest addition to the telescope’s suite of instruments is a tool called NEAR (Near Earths …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpaceX This Is The Defining Image Of The Commercial Space Age (So Far)Popular ScienceThe International Space Station w/ SpaceX Dragon, Orbital ATK Cygnus, and Soyuz See that? That's an image of the International Space Station in orbit from NASA's live webcast earlier this morning. To casual
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraHubble Celebrate Hubble's 25th Birthday With 26 Of Its Most Gorgeous ImagesPopular ScienceTwenty-five years ago today, Hubble launched into space, nestled in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Over those years, the space telescope produced the most inspiring images of the cosmos we humans
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpaceX This Is How SpaceX Unloads A 15-Story Rocket Off A Drone ShipPopular ScienceOn Friday, SpaceX made history by landing its Falcon 9 rocket booster on a drone ship. The move will help the company recover and reuse more rockets after they launch, and the achievement was a long time
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraMicrowaves Could EmDrive engines work for real? We're about to find outWired UK - Daniel Oberhaus Since the birth of the space age, the dream of catching a ride to another solar system has been hobbled by the “tyranny of the rocket equation,” …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSoviet Union Explore 60 years of rocketsNational Geographic - Fernando G. BaptistaThis graphic charts the history of spaceflight, from Russia’s reliable early vehicles to today’s privately engineered crafts. Rapid advancements in spaceflight occurred during the space race between the
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraStephen Hawking Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the UniverseWIRED - Natalie Wolchover In 1981, many of the world’s leading cosmologists gathered at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a vestige of the coupled lineages of science and …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraNASA NASA Just Released More Than 1,000 New Images Of Mars' SurfacePopular ScienceSince its launch in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting the red planet and snapping photos merrily as it goes. The MRO sends back photos of Mars every month, but this month's
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraChernobyl The truth about Chernobyl? I saw it with my own eyes…The Guardian - Kim WillsherThere is a line in the television series Chernobyl that comes as no surprise to those of us who reported on the 1986 nuclear disaster in what was the Soviet Union – but that still has the power to shock:
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraEnceladus Confirmed: Enceladus Has A Global OceanPopular ScienceEnceladus is not the block of ice that scientists once thought it was. The Saturnian moon spouts giant plumes of water vapor from its southern pole, and gravity data indicate it likely harbors a liquid
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraApollo Missions As The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11 Nears, New Books Highlight The Mission's LegacyNPR - Adam FrankThe countdown has begun. It's T-minus a month or so until the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 — and humanity's first and famous steps on another world. In appreciation of that achievement, and the five-decade
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpacecraft A Look Inside the Deep-Sea Graveyard for Dead Spacecraftfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean at Point Nemo, the region between New Zealand and South America farthest from any landmass, lies a mass grave …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraScience A Saturn Moon Has Otherworldly LakesThe Atlantic - Marina KorenYou’d need an oxygen mask and enough layers to contend with beyond-freezing temperatures, but could leave the sunscreen at home. If you’re looking for a scenic lakeside destination for your summer vacation,
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraWorld News What's happening inside Saturn's rings? The Cassini mission dove between them to find outCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — During the final year of NASA's Cassini mission before it completed a "death dive" into Saturn's atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet's rings. instruments
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraParticles Yes, Saturn's Rings Are Awesome — NASA's Cassini Showed Us Just HOW Awesome.space.com - Meghan Bartels When the solar system decided it liked Saturn and wanted to put a ring on it, it put together the most stunning, complex puzzle ring possible, so …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraThe Future One Giant Leap shows Apollo's missions were a giant tech leap for all of usCNET - by Steven Musil The US space race with the Soviets helped usher in the many technologies we enjoy today, Charles Fishman writes in his new book, One Giant Leap.
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpaceX SpaceX just pulled off a stunning launch and landing in dense fogCNET - by Jackson Ryan It was a brisk, foggy morning in California but SpaceX pulled off another successful launch and landing
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraGeek Cool NASA Tech Will Launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket SoonGeek - By Genevieve Scarano Later in June, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission. Coming along for the ride …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSatellites A New Fuel for Satellites Is So Safe It Won’t Blow Up HumansWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus Later this month, a small satellite will hitch a ride on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the world’s first demonstration of “green” satellite …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraScience NASA overcomes military's GPS tweaks to peer inside hurricanessciencemag.org - Paul Voosen A mission to probe winds deep inside hurricanes, where most satellites cannot see and few aircraft venture, is showing signs of success despite an …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraScience (India) Venus, Earth’s Evil Twin, Beckons Space Agenciesscientificamerican.com - Shannon Hall, Nature magazine The helicopter fell like a stone. It dropped by more than 1,500 metres over Maryland, twisting slightly as the ground grew rapidly closer. Although …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraScience These Sumptuous Images Give Deep Space Data an Old-World LookWIRED - Sara Harrison Eleanor Lutz has a running list of scientific topics for which she wants to find data sets. It’s not her job exactly: A biologist with wide-ranging …
Juan Francisco Puerta IbarraSpaceX SpaceX successfully re-launches and recovers Falcon 9 flown in MarchTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonSpaceX’s launch today from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base went off without a hitch, carrying three satellites that make up the RADARSAT constellation to be used for observation by the Canadian
