Russ SandersPhysics New warp drive research dashes faster than light travel dreams – but reveals stranger possibilities theconversation.com - Sam Baron In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to …
Russ SandersMars What Went Wrong With NASA’s Mars Helicopter? neatorama.com - sodiumnami NASA delayed the first flight of its Ingenuity helicopter after receiving some messed up data from the aircraft. At first, the reason behind the …
Russ SandersRenewable Energy NASA's Insight Mars Lander Is 'in Crisis', And Has Entered Emergency Hibernation verified_publisherScienceAlert - MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN NASA's $800 million Mars lander is in an energy crisis. InSight, which landed in a Martian plain called Elysium Planitia in 2018, has detected more …
Russ SandersAliens What if our search for aliens goes horribly wrong? Astronomers weigh in Inverse - Passant Rabie Are we alone in the universe? Probably not, but that’s not the only alien-related question for which astronomers are seeking answers. As we inch …
Russ SandersEmirates Mars Mission The plans to build a Martian mega city you’d actually want to travel 300 million km to live in sciencefocus.com - Stuart Clark With more missions reaching the Red Planet, a human landing glints on the horizon. But what could the first permanent Mars metropolis look like? There …
Russ SandersChemicals Researchers Discover Signs Of Life On Venus Using Data From NASA’s Pioneer Venus Multiprobe! MashableDo you believe there’s life on Venus? In 2020, a team of astronomers had announced that they detected the chemical phosphine in the thick clouds of Venus. Scientists had asserted back then that the reason...
Russ SandersMars Strange blue structures glow on Mars in new NASA image Live Science - Brandon Specktor The north pole of Mars looks even more alien in blue. NASA astronomers just shared a colorful new view of Mars that proves the Red Planet also looks …
Russ SandersAsteroids An asteroid just came 'exceptionally close' to hitting Earth verified_publisherUSA TODAY - Jordan MendozaThere will be no "Armageddon" type of situation on Earth after an asteroid the size of car just missed hitting Earth on Monday. The asteroid, known as 2021 GW4, traveled at 18,700 miles per hour when passed...
Russ SandersU.S. Government Pentagon Confirms Leaked UFO Images Are Authentic thedebrief.org - Tim McMillan The Pentagon has confirmed that U.S. Navy personnel captured several leaked images and a video depicting unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, …
Russ SandersQuasars Astronomers Discover A Dozen Extremely Rare Einstein Crosses Using ESA Gaia! MashableLet’s talk about another latest space discovery! ESA recently revealed that astronomers have discovered a dozen quasars whose light is deflected by foreground galaxies and are each visible as four distinct...
Russ SandersCosmic An Extremely Powerful and Unexplained Energy Ray Tore Through Our Galaxy verified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraThe highly energetic gamma ray was more powerful than any particle accelerator on Earth, hinting at the existence of cosmic super-accelerators called PeVatrons. Something in the Milky Way is shooting unexplained...
Russ SandersMars See the first Mars color photo snapped by NASA's Ingenuity helicopter verified_publisherCNET - Leslie Katz Rocks and rover wheels star in the Mars chopper's view of the red planet.
Russ SandersMars Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps 1st color photo on Red Planet space.com - Mike Wall NASA's little Mars helicopter has opened its eyes on the Red Planet. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper, known as Ingenuity, snapped its first color …
Russ SandersMars NASA’s Mars rover drops off Ingenuity helicopter ahead of historic flight verified_publisherThe Verge - Jay PetersNASA’s Perseverance rover, which is currently roaming around Mars, has dropped off the mini helicopter Ingenuity ahead of the four-pound aircraft’s historic first flight. Ingenuity dropped four inches...
Russ SandersNebulas Hubble's Renewed Image of The Veil Nebula Will Take Your Breath Away verified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle Starr Stars die in fire and fury. They tremble and shake, erupting their viscera out into space; when the star explodes and the violence is done, a …
Russ SandersMeteorites NASA Perseverance Mars rover investigates 'odd' rock, zaps it verified_publisherCNET - Amanda Kooser Scientists speculate the rock could be a meteorite or a far-flung chunk of Mars.
Russ SandersDark Matter A Glowing Mystery at Our Galaxy's Center Has a Mind-Blowing Explanation, Physicists Believe verified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraAn unexplained glow at the center of the Milky Way that has puzzled scientists for years might just be the aftermath of dark matter annihilation events. For more than a decade, scientists have been perplexed...
Russ SandersUniverse The mystery of how big our Universe really is verified_publisherBBC Future - Abigail BeallLet's start by saying the Universe is big. When we look in any direction, the furthest visible regions of the Universe are estimated to be around 46 billion light years away. That's a diameter of 540 (or...
Russ SandersAsteroids NASA wants us to know that IRL 'Armageddon' is at least 100 years away verified_publisherMashable - Adam RosenbergMaybe one day we'll send a group of oil rig workers off to space on an ill-advised mission to detonate an asteroid from the inside, but it's not going to happen during the current century. Asteroid 99942,...
Russ SandersNASA NASA is figuring out how to feed astronauts heading to Mars verified_publisherCNET - Mark Serrels How do you feed humans on six month space trip?
Russ SandersMars Mars orbiter captures stunning image of planet’s frosty dunes verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Trevor Mogg NASA’s Perseverance rover is getting all the attention just now, together with the Ingenuity helicopter that’s about to take flight on the red …
Russ SandersMars NASA reveals flight zone for historic helicopter flight on Mars verified_publisherThe Verge - Joey RouletteNASA has locked in a location on Mars for the first demo flight of its mini helicopter named Ingenuity, engineers announced on Tuesday. The four-pound rotorcraft is gearing up to attempt the first powered...
Russ SandersSpace You need to see the brightest nova in the sky ASAP Inverse - Passant Rabie There’s something new and bright lurking in the night sky — and you can see it in your backyard. An amateur astronomer in Japan recently discovered a …
Russ SandersInterstellar Space An Astronomer Just Laid Out a Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel verified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle Starr It's 2021, and we finally don't have to worry quite so much about our spacecraft getting lost in interstellar space. Using the positions and shifting …
Russ SandersBlack Holes A supermassive black hole is speeding through space, and astronomers don't know why space.com - Ben Turner A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don't know why. The …
Russ SandersSpace Stunning Hubble Images Capture Changing Seasons in Saturn’s Vast and Turbulent Atmosphere scitechdaily.com - Bill Steigerwald, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a view of changes in Saturn’s vast and turbulent atmosphere as the planet’s northern hemisphere …
Russ SandersGreen Living Plans for the first sustainable city on Mars unveiled verified_publisherEuronews Living - euronews With plans for the first 'Martian sustainable city' ready to go, it's now just a question of time before humans live on Mars. The new design overall …
Russ Sanders2:48 Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Helicopter (March 19, 2021) www.youtube.comNASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is preparing to deploy the Ingenuity Mars helicopter to the surface of the Red Planet. This video provides a mission update from Farah Alibay, Perseverance integration...
Russ SandersUniverse Scientists Capture Mind-Blowing Image of the Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe verified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraSpectacular new images of the large-scale structures that link our universe were captured from the Chilean desert. In a major breakthrough, scientists have captured the first direct images of the ghostly...
