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Planets Will Collide in 5 Billion Years, Says New Study
Written on 5 Jul, 2009 at 8:39 in Featured, Science | viewed 793 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Two French scientists have gone old school science, using mathematical formulas to predict the path of the universe, and it’s going to be a violent one. According to Jacques Laskar and Mickael Gastineau, an astronomer and computer engineer respectively at the Paris Observatory, in approximately 5 billion years the universe will go out the way it came in…with a big bang. Full Story : Chattabox.com….
Japan’s first lunar probe ends mission
Written on 11 Jun, 2009 at 13:11 in Featured, Science | viewed 447 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Japan’s first lunar probe made a controlled crash landing on the moon Thursday, successfully completing a 19-month mission to study the Earth’s nearest neighbor, Japan’s space agency said. The remotely controlled satellite, named after the folklore princess Kaguya, had been orbiting the moon to map its surface and study its mineral distribution and gravity levels. It was dropped onto the surface of the moon at 3:25 am. (1825 GMT), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said in a statement. Full Story : USAToday.com…..
Earth could collide with Other Planets
Written on 11 Jun, 2009 at 12:45 in Featured, Science | viewed 500 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Astronomers calculate there is a tiny chance that Mars or Venus could collide with Earth - though it would not happen for at least a billion years. The finding comes from simulations to show how orbits of planets might evolve billions of years into the future. But the calculated chances of such events occurring are tiny. Astronomers had thought that the orbits of the planets were predictable. But 20 years ago, researchers showed that there were slight fluctuations in their paths. Full Story : BBC.co.uk….
Russia’s Dark Horse Plan to Get to Mars
Written on 22 May, 2009 at 11:30 in Featured, Science | viewed 218 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Instead of aiming straight for Mars, the Russians are going after Phobos, the larger of its two little satellites and one of the oddest objects around. Their probe, called Fobos-Grunt (“Phobos soil” in Russian), will not only land on Phobos but also scoop up some samples of the surface and send them to Earth. Phobos is very different from our moon. It is a potato-shaped rock measuring only 12 miles by 17 miles, nearly as dark as coal, and dominated by a six-mile-wide crater called Stickney. Full Story : DiscoverMagazine.com….
NASA Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Crater
Written on 21 May, 2009 at 16:56 in Featured, Science | viewed 230 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
One of NASA’s two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the rim and interior of Victoria Crater on the Red Planet from September 2006 through August 2008. The rover revealed the effects of wind and water. The data show water repeatedly came and left billions of years ago. Wind persisted much longer, heaping sand into dunes between ancient water episodes. Full Story : NASA.gov…..
Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine
Written on 21 May, 2009 at 12:59 in Featured, Science | viewed 216 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
After the astronauts on the International Space Station finished up their communications with Space Shuttle Atlantis yesterday, the crew on the Space Station did something that no other astronaut has ever done before - drank recycled urine and sweat. The previous shuttle crew that recently returned to Earth brought back samples of the recycled water to make sure it was safe to drink, and all tests came back fine. Full Story : TechFragments.com….
NASA rescue mission aims to revive Hubble Telescope
Written on 7 May, 2009 at 11:01 in Featured, Science | viewed 478 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the greatest scientific instruments of all time, is about to get an extreme makeover — an overhaul so delicate and risky that NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld likens it to “brain surgery.” The seven-member crew of space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to blast off Monday in an attempt to fix it. Full Story : USAToday.com…..
First Gardens on the Moon by 2012!
Written on 27 Apr, 2009 at 12:10 in Featured, Science | viewed 282 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Groundbreaking advancements in the realm of space engineering may soon see the moon sown with the first gardens to grow on the lunar surface. As part of the Google Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development Corporation has recently teamed with Odyssey Moon to develop a pressurized mini greenhouse to deploy on the surface of the moon, grow a plant from seed, and hopefully see it flower and seed itself. It’s a complicated endeavor, but it marks a critical stage of development for extending life beyond the confines of our planet. Full Story : Inhabitat.com……
Former NASA Astronaut: Governments Concealing Truth About Extraterrestrial Life
Written on 22 Apr, 2009 at 12:47 in Featured, Science | viewed 927 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments. He delivered his remarks during an appearance at the National Press Club following the conclusion of the fifth annual X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the possibility of alien life forms. Full Story : Thirdeyeconcept.com….
Star crust is 10 billion times stronger than steel
Written on 16 Apr, 2009 at 12:20 in Featured, Science | viewed 244 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The crust of neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel, according to new simulations. That makes the surface of these ultra-dense stars tough enough to support long-lived bulges that could produce gravitational waves detectable by experiments on Earth. Neutron stars are the cores left behind when relatively massive stars explode in supernovae. Full Story : Newscientist………
Sun is plunging into the Deepest Solar minimum
Written on 2 Apr, 2009 at 11:31 in Featured, Science | viewed 306 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Measurements by the Ulysses spacecraft reveal a 20% drop in solar wind pressure since the mid-1990s—the lowest point since such measurements began in the 1960s. The solar wind helps keep galactic cosmic rays out of the inner solar system. Careful measurements by several NASA spacecraft show that the sun’s brightness has dropped by 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% at extreme UV wavelengths since the solar minimum of 1996. The changes so far are not enough to reverse the course of global warming. Full Story : NASA….
Firm vows to grow first flowers on the moon
Written on 28 Mar, 2009 at 12:21 in Featured, Science | viewed 315 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Engineering firm Paragon Space Development plans to build a greenhouse to fly to the moon. The greenhouse will be used to incubate fast-growing mustard seeds on the lunar surface, in the hopes of producing flowering plants. The prototype unveiled on Friday is a metal-reinforced glass dome that is some 9 centimetres in diameter and 30 centimetres high, enough space to grow roughly six plants. Full Story : Newscientist.com….
Russian capsule docks at space station
Written on 28 Mar, 2009 at 11:00 in Featured, Technology | viewed 274 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian cosmonaut, an American astronaut and U.S. billionaire tourist Charles Simonyi docked at the international space station Saturday. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka manually guided the capsule to a stop slightly ahead of schedule two days after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Full Story : AP.com
Scientists search cosmos for new worlds
Written on 8 Mar, 2009 at 17:20 in Science | viewed 241 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The new “Kepler” spacecraft blasted off from Florida on Friday. Kepler will survey the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, and look for indicators that planets orbit other stars. It’s done by calculation. Full Story : Krqe.com……
(Continue reading)Mars discovery suggests water on planet 1m years ago
Written on 3 Mar, 2009 at 13:05 in @ a glance, Science | viewed 369 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Fan-like gullies discovered on Mars suggest the planet had running water on its surface less than a million years ago. The discovery increases the chances of life existing on the planet in the recent past, or even surviving today. Full Story : Telegraph.co.uk….
(Continue reading)Asteroid flies closely past Earth
Written on 2 Mar, 2009 at 20:43 in Featured, Science | viewed 358 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
An asteroid the size of a 10-story building flew past Earth today about twice the distance as the highest Earth-orbiting satellites. Astronomers had known the asteroid was coming and said there was no risk of collision. The vast majority of known asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This belt is currently estimated to contain between 1.1 and 1.9 million asteroids larger than 1 km in diameter. Its believed that an asteroid impact may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago.
US Will Go Back to the Moon in 2020
Written on 27 Feb, 2009 at 13:45 in Science | viewed 357 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
In a budget blueprint released by the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama has confirmed his intent to carry out the planned retirement of the ageing Space Shuttle next year. Additionally, the the blueprint affirms Obama’s stance on a return trip to the Moon. Full Story : Universetoday…..
More Ancient Hot Springs Discovered on Mars?
Written on 15 Feb, 2009 at 14:35 in @ a glance, Science | viewed 255 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Now, data from retrieved from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest the discovery of another ancient hot springs region in Vernal Crater in Arabia Terra, an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It is densely cratered and heavily eroded. Full Story : Universetoday…..
Space Crash Debris Could Linger 10,000 Years
Written on 15 Feb, 2009 at 13:55 in Science | viewed 242 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Debris from this week’s satellite collision could circle Earth for up to 10,000 years, threatening many other satellites in an already-crowded area, Russia’s Mission Control chief said Friday. Space “junk” has become a growing concern in recent years, since collisions at orbital velocities can be highly damaging to functioning satellites and can also produce even more space debris in the process, called Kessler Syndrome. The U.S. Strategic Command maintains a catalogue currently containing about 13,000 objects, in part to prevent misinterpretation as hostile missiles.
Space Radiation the Big Killer
Written on 12 Feb, 2009 at 15:39 in Science | viewed 327 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The future of space flight, exploration and even the future of commercialization of space for space mining, space tourism and research depend on solving one very important issue,Space Radiation. Once outside Earth”s atmosphere we are no longer protected from the bombardment of X-rays, Gamma Rays and Space Radiation. Full Article : Space Radiation the Big Killer .