Category: Space Exploration
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BLACK BEAUTY METEORITE SUGGESTS LIFE ON MARS STARTED EARLY
BLACK BEAUTY METEORITE SUGGESTS LIFE ON MARS STARTED EARLY A new study says that Mars was a potentially habitable planet. The process of planet formation involves heat. Rocky planets such as Earth and Mars ended up covered molten rock after they formed. On Mars, the oceans of molten rock froze up immediately, which could have…
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AN INVISIBLE UNIVERSE IS REVEALED
NASA’s telescope known as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory looks at the universe’s sources of high levels of energy, such as quasars, supernovas, and black holes. These are areas of the cosmos that cannot be seen by the naked human eye. For more than ten years, this observatory has helped researchers look at the universe as…
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BLACK HOLES COULD BE CLASHING WORMHOLES
There is a new theory that lingers in the minds of experts. They believe that when wormholes cannon into each other, they could create ripples that bounce off them. Tunnels in space-time would form. The so-called gravitational echoes would be measured by future instruments, providing evidence that these theoretical tunnels do exist. The LIGO (…
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Taking the Search for Life to Europa
NASA has recently described what could well become man’s next big step in the search for extraterrestrial life elsewhere in our solar system. In 2016, NASA’s Planetary Science Division was instructed by the US Congress to look into the feasibility of sending a spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, with the aim of…
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Race to the Red Planet Moves Up a Gear
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) reached two significant milestones in recent days, and in doing so, it has put the agency firmly back in the race to Mars. The agency has announced that all work platforms outside the launch vehicle have now been installed. This is seen as being a huge achievement, considering that…
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How Space Affects Astronauts
Scott Kelly spent a well-documented year in space, as his identical brother spent the same time here on Earth. The study was to determine the effects that space has on the human body. Both in the physiological sense and the psychological. What researchers have discovered so far is that Scott’s white blood cells grew…
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Humans to Mars Summit
Mars Exploration Conference Soon … The Humans to Mars Summit or H2M is a Mars exploration conference that will be addressing scientific and technical issues as well as any policy changes or challenges that have arisen that might impede humans from getting to Mars. It will also be covering how this mission and missions…
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An Ocean On Pluto
NASA’s spacecraft, New Horizons, picked up a new analysis that may mean that there is a subsurface ocean on Pluto! How did they deduce this? Sputnik Planitia is a low lying plain on Pluto and according to the new images it is very well aligned with Pluto’s tidal axis. It’s so certain that scientists…
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Mars Rover Curiosity Finds an Unusual Meteorite
The Mars Rover called Curiosity has been roaming the surface of Mars since 2012 and has just found an unusual meteorite on October 31, 2016. It isn’t Curiosity’s first but it is the most unusual one found by any of the rovers. Two years ago, Curiosity found its first meteorite and it was…
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NASA Begins New Program to Research Safety Measures for Life in Space
Spending time in space comes with many challenges. Not only are there the logistical challenges of getting people and equipment into space, but there are also challenges of overcoming the physical hazards of living and working in space. The human body can change significantly during long-term spaceflight, and precautions should be taken to ensure…