MattPlay buttonScience Moon rock time-capsule unlocks the Sun's earliest secretsslashgear.com - Chris Davies The secrets of our Sun may be found much closer to home – in astronomical terms, anyway – as NASA researchers look to the Moon’s crust to answer core …
MattScience How to Measure Time — From the Very Beginning of TimeThe New York Times - By C. CLAIBORNE RAYQ. Do scientists actually speak of the age of the universe in years, or do they use some measurement that does not refer to the orbit of one tiny planet? A. Old habits die hard. The unit of time recognized
MattScience Cytophone detects and blasts circulating cancer cellsnewatlas.com - Matt Kennedy A team from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has developed a non-invasive tool which not only detects circulating tumor cells …
MattNASA Daring maneuver brings NASA’s orbiter closer to an asteroid than ever beforebgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu since the start of the year. It caught up with the asteroid in late …
MattParticles Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sensephys.org - Howard Wiseman The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in the world that we …
MattAsteroidsThe incredible 'Atlas of Space' that maps the orbits of every known object in our solar system including planets, moons asteroidsdailymail.co.uk - Victoria Bell A stunning map created by a data-driven illustrator shows all the orbits of over 18,000 asteroids in the Solar System. It includes 10,000 asteroids …
MattVenus Forget Mars,There Might Be Life On Venus Too!Mashable - Natasha MathurHave you ever wondered if there is life on other planets apart from Earth? If so, chances are your curiosity might have been hampered by different research and studies that say it’s impossible for humans
MattSatellites Watch a chunk of satellite melt like a marshmallow on fireCNET - by Amanda Kooser European Space Agency researchers go all Raiders of the Lost Ark on a satellite piece.
MattNASA Nasa reveals images of asteroid that’s ‘like nothing humanity has seen before’metro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Nasa has released pictures of a highly unusual mountain on the surface of an asteroid. The natural wonder is called Ahuna Mons was found on the …
MattScience (India) Spectacular New Crater Discovered on MarsGizmodo - George Dvorsky A fresh Martian crater has been detected in a stunning new image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Using its High-Resolution Imaging …
MattScience 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 …
MattParticles Migrating Baby Exoplanet Sculpts Disk Around Newborn Star (Photos)space.com - Mike Wall Astronomers have spotted intricate ring structures in the outer portion of the disk of dust and gas that surrounds the young star HD 169142, which …
MattSouth Pole NASA astronaut shares incredible aurora phenomenon from the International Space StationCountry Living - Lisa Walden The glowing green hue was captured above the South Pole A NASA astronaut has captured an incredible aurora phenomenon from the International Space …
MattScience Big earthquakes might make sea level rise worse. Here's how.National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasThe Samoan islands are sinking faster than expected due to warming alone, and a pair of huge quakes is likely to blame. A geologic one-two punch rocked the South Pacific in September 2009, as a magnitude
MattMars Bam! Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks Spectacularspace.com - Elizabeth Howell A small space rock crashed into the Red Planet's surface recently, producing a fresh crater that researchers estimate is 49 feet to 53 feet (15 to 16 …
MattSpace Cassini's Breathtaking Final Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Shapes in Saturn's RingsScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR In its final year, Cassini plunged where no spacecraft had plunged before, down in the space between Saturn and its rings. Again and again it dove, …
MattScience Astronomers spot moon ‘flashing at us’ and no one can explain whyFox News - The SunHumans have been noticing flashes of light coming from the Moon for thousands of years but we still don't understand why this happens or what causes it. The strange occurrence is known as a transient phenomenon
MattNASA Take an exclusive look inside Nasa's colossal, unseen archivesWired UK - Amit Katwala As a space-mad boy in suburban England, Benedict Redgrove watched grainy television pictures of the space shuttle Columbia as it soared into Earth’s …
MattGalaxies Is This The Most Massive Star In The Universe?Forbes - Ethan SiegelMass is the single most important astronomical property in determining the lives of stars. Greater masses generally lead to higher temperatures, greater brightnesses, and shorter lifetimes. Since massive
MattPopulation How close is the world to being too full of people?metro.co.uk - Chris Stokel-Walker We didn’t have smartphones, most of us didn’t have cars and we didn’t traverse the globe in aeroplanes. Back in 1900 there were around 1.65 billion …
MattApollo Missions Apollo: The missions to the Moon in 50 fascinating numbersBBC FutureThe Apollo Program took eight years and cost some $25bn. But it overcame one of the most complex challenges humanity has ever undertaken – putting a man on the Moon. The seed was sown in July 1960. With
MattSpace 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 …
MattNASA NASA Names 11 Space Companies to Return to the MoonThe Motley Fool - Rich Smith NASA assembles its Lunar Avengers -- and asks them to build it not one, but a whole fleet of new spacecraft. For all of the money we are spending, …
MattApollo Missions 'Apollo's Moon Shot' Series Shows History of Human Lunar Explorationspace.com - Elizabeth Howell A new Smithsonian Channel series celebrates the artifacts that led to Apollo 11's triumphant moon landing 50 years ago this July, and shares …
MattHubble Space Telescope Hubble captures explosive galaxy, the site of three recent supernovaeDigital Trends - Georgina Torbet Hubble’s latest image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 4051, which is located 45 million years from Earth. This particular galaxy is notable for having …
MattSoviet 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
MattScience 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 …
MattParticles The grainy texture of Saturn’s rings reveals clues to their originsDigital Trends - Georgina Torbet New analysis of data from the Cassini mission shows that Saturn’s rings are not smooth, but rather are grainy in texture. Scientists believe that …
MattScience What happened to the Apollo goodwill moon rocks?phys.org US President Richard Nixon gave moon rocks collected by Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 astronauts to 135 countries around the world and the 50 US states as …
