Category: Our Solar System
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Moon Struck During Eclipse
The 21st of January proved to be an eventful day for stargazers as they marveled a full lunar eclipse, which was made more memorable by a blaze of light. Amateur astronomers believe that a meteorite may have hit the surface of the moon at a rapid rate during the eclipse, causing a huge energy…
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EVEN IF ALIEN WORLDS ARE OXYGEN-RICH, THEY STILL MAY NOT BE UNHABITABLE
EVEN IF ALIEN WORLDS ARE OXYGEN-RICH, THEY STILL MAY NOT BE UNHABITABLE Oxygen is not a convincing sign of alien life anymore. A new study suggests that even the presence of acknowledged biosignatures could falsely indicate the existence of life. Oxygen and methane are byproducts of living organisms, scientists use them as determinants for the…
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BLOBS SURROUNDING M-DWARF STARS COULD BE BAD FOR ALIEN LIFE
BLOBS SURROUNDING M-DWARF STARS COULD BE BAD FOR ALIEN LIFE M-dwarfs may be actively increasing the number of obstacles for exoplanets to support alien life. The survival processes may be inhibited in various systems around the small M stars. The said processes include the delivery of organic material and water to land mass habitable planets.…
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THE TRUTH BEHIND NASA’S DOCUMENTATION OF ALIENS’ VISIT TO EARTH
Recently, an article exposes a NASA scientist’s statement that the Earth may have had alien visitors before. Fox News, The Daily Wire, New York Post, and Russia Today all released the same story. The articles were created according to the information shared by Silvano Colombano on NASA’s website. Colombano, NASA’s Ames Research Center’s researcher, argued…
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Martian Orbiters May Provide Inaccurate Water Assessment
Martian Orbiters May Provide Inaccurate Water Assessment Our closest planetary neighbor, Mars, is often associated with microorganisms, breathable air and the presence of water. New findings suggest that sensitive instruments equipped on Martian orbiters may be responsible for inaccurate data that may have been providing false scientific evidence, especially regarding salt water streaks. The hydrated…
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Ancient Asteroid Contains Signs of Water
Ancient Asteroid Contains Signs of Water A closer inspection of the asteroid, Bennu, hints at the existence of water. Experts from the NASA Osiris team reports of instrumental discoveries on the surface of the rock. The carbonaceous Bennu may be a fragment of a much larger parent body and had separated from its core about…
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New ExoPlanets Discovered
Scientists have discovered 100 new exoplanets outside our planet’s solar system. They were identified as the scientists hunt for a planet much like our Earth. Some of these exoplanets might contain life as well. Studying them could gauge just how normal our planet is. These exoplanets were discovered using data from DTU space or the…
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NASA’S NEW WAY OF PREPARING FOR ASTEROIDS
Bruce Willis has nothing to do with the NASA’s new plan to prepare for an asteroid hit. The White House, FEMA, and NASA officials recently discussed their new asteroid-mitigation strategies. The possibility of an asteroid hitting the earth is something everyone should anticipate. The residents of earth should always have a degree of preparedness. The…
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Methane On Saturn’s Enceladus: A Sign of Life?
Researchers say that some of Earth’s tough microbes could probably survive in Enceladus—Saturn’s moon. A new research says that the buried ocean in Enceladus eats up the hydrogen from interactions between the rock formations and the seawater. The microbes that the scientists tested produced methane as their byproduct. When Enceladus’ intense south pole geysers…
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Does the Moon Need a Landfill?
Because the moon has been frequented by man on a lot of occasions, it is only expected that he would be leaving his mark on it. One undeniable mark is trash. It is a bit astonishing that the trash on the moon already amounts to at least 181,000 kilograms or 400,000 lbs. on Earth. Some…