Author: Robbi Drake
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Mysterious Cosmic Mountains Baffle Experts
The stars in the sky are assembling into mountain-like formations and scientists are studying why. Mountain ridges and streams are carved out by years of seismic plate activities, but the galactic version remains a mystery. European Space Agency Gaia has been researching on the phenomenon since 2018, examining galactic features with greater dimensionality. Some experts…
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Nasa Anticipates Hurricane Dorian
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) have predicted the trajectory of Hurricane Dorian. The team NASA’s Kennedy Space Station has taken protective measures against the impending force of nature expected to hit Florida. Particularly, NASA has acted to safeguard a 400-feet tower scheduled for launching space mega rocket projects in…
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Mars Spacesuit Tested in Iceland
Mars is the closest planetary to Earth, but its climate and air quality are much different. A team of space experts from Iceland have tested a spacesuit that mimics the conditions of Mars when worn. The prototype outfit was specially designed at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). A space team tested the quality of…
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Establishing the Shape of the Milky Way
The milky way is our home galaxy while its shape has remained unestablished. Scientists may have uncovered a new method of shaping the Milky Way by determining the distance between stars and Earth through 3D measurements. According to the latest technique, it is more warped and less flat than earlier studies have suggested. The 3D…
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The Discovery of An Ultra Hot Neptune Exoplanet
The masses and physical characteristics of planets are usually predictable based on the distance between them and their star. Recent space discoveries reported at the TESS Space Conference in MIT announced the unusual observation of an exoplanet, LTT 9779b, which presents itself as a gaseous giant or otherwise known as an “ultra-hot Neptune”, despite its…
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Solar Wind in A Lab
Scientists have finally recreated the spiralling solar wind of the Sun, within a controlled laboratory setting. The breakthrough experiment conducted through an alumininum vacuum (known as the Big Red Ball) at the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory had successfully recreated a spiral phenomenon based off the magnetic forces of the Sun. The physical sighting being mimicked…
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FETTUCCINE: MARTIAN SIGN OF LIFE
Noodle-like rock formations on Mars are said to have been formed by an ancient bacterium found on rock formations on Earth and on harsh surroundings that are similar to areas on Mars. The formations look like fettuccine pasta (in cable formation) and capellini pasta (when moving downstream) so the rover could examine it easily for…
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EARTH MAY BE THREATENED BY RARE SUPERFLARES
Superflares have appeared in the Milky Way’s edges in recent years. These happen when stars let out enormous bursts of energy from lightyears away. Scientists had no idea why these stars behave this way, until recently. They only assumed that the explosions only happened to the active and young stars. A new study has shown…
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UNDER THE LARGEST CRATER OF THE MOON
A huge, enigmatic lump of solid material was found under the moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin. This may have metal from the body of an asteroid that collided into the moon and created the crater. The said crater is oval with a width of about 2,000 kilometers, comparable to the distance between Washington, D.C., and…
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Organic-rich Volcanoes of Pluto
In the distant icy dwarf planet of Pluto, scientists have discovered red ice believed to have been spewed from the volcanoes on its surface. According to the research team from NASA, the detected traces of water may contain organic-rich ammonia. A NASA representative states of the physical characteristics of ammonia, “if you find it at…