Mars may look like a dry, dusty planet today. But scientific models indicate that it was likely once home to massive amounts of water, both above and below its surface – and now, researchers have evidence to back those models up. “Early Mars was a watery world, but as the planet’s climate changed this water
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FILE PHOTO: The first two satellites of Europe’s Galileo navigation system are launched aboard a Russian Soyuz VS01 rocket at the Guiana Space Center in Sinnamary, French Guiana, October 21, 2011. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe needs its own technology to guard against a growing threat to its satellites from space junk ranging
True crime podcasts, books and documentaries are everywhereGetty Flip on the television, peruse a local bookstore, or browse a list of podcasts and you’ll see it: true crime stories are having a moment right now. Whether it’s popular podcasts like Serial or multi-part documentaries on Netflix like The Keepers and Making a Murderer, it seems
WASHINGTON — Maxar Technologies has decided not to sell or shut down its commercial geostationary orbit satellite business, but will restructure it with a greater emphasis on smaller satellites and government customers. In an interview with SpaceNews, Walter Scott, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Maxar, said that after months of analysis about
Using advanced technology, scientists are reconstructing what citizens of ancient Pompeii looked like before the enormous volcanic eruption that took their lives. Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Check out SCI2 for infinitely awesome science videos. Every day. http://bit.ly/SCI2YT Download the TestTube app: http://testu.be/1ndmmMq
This is NASA’s 2018 ‘To Do’ list. The work we do, which will continue in 2018, helps the United States maintain its world leadership in space exploration and scientific discovery. Launches, discoveries and more exploration await in the year ahead. This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: images-assets.nasa.gov/video/NHQ_2017_1219_NASA 2018 TO
Have you ever seen fine water condensation on a transparent surface shimmer like a rainbow? Scientists have now figured out exactly how it happens – and have used this new knowledge to make water droplets produce a dazzling array of colours. If the droplets are on a transparent surface, and lit by a single lamp,
When it comes to finding life outside of Earth, it’s hard to know where to look. The dark and icy oceans of Enceladus and Europa offer one kind of hypothetical habitat. Meanwhile, the dusty, arid landscape of Mars looks to be almost the opposite – but scientists have just found a clue that gives hope
Lots of video games let you take on the role of the anti-hero: Grand Theft Auto, Hitman, even Mario’s mischievous alter-ego, Wario. But there’s never been a video game anti-hero quite like Plague Inc. – in this massively successful pandemic simulator, you actually play the role of a deadly and contagious pathogen, hell-bent on wiping
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Simulated shot of Opportunity on MarsNASA We’re all still mourning NASA’s Opportunity rover, which the agency officially declared dead earlier this month following several months of radio silence in the wake of a heavy Martian dust storm that left Opportunity’s solar panels covered with a thick
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced by a bipartisan pair of senators Feb. 27 would authorize an extension of the International Space Station to 2030 and also make permanent human settlement of space a national goal. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) introduced the Advancing Human Spaceflight Act Feb. 27, with its central provision
In a special mission in March, the Indian space agency will launch an electronic intelligence satellite Emisat for the DRDO, 28 third party satellites and also demonstrate its new technologies like three different orbits with a new variant of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, said a top official. The exact date has not been
Back in January, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past the furthest object we’ve ever explored - Ultima Thule. But before that, the team back on Earth managed to snap a few perfect pictures of the weirdly shaped Kuiper belt object. The most detailed of those photos has just been released by the team. “Bullseye!” said New
For years, scientists have warned of the “next big one,” an earthquake so powerful that it could topple buildings, slash power, and take lives across California. As far as natural disasters go, the quake represented the worst-case-scenario for cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, which are both located along the San Andreas Fault. Now
Lab-made marijuana is coming. In a move that’s expected to transform the marijuana and pharmaceutical industries, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced on Wednesday that they had for the first time created cannabis compounds in a lab, instead of by harvesting them from a plant. If the technique can scale, it could
SEATTLE/PARIS (Reuters) – A rocket carrying six satellites built by Airbus SE and partner OneWeb blasted off from French Guiana on Wednesday, the first step in a plan to give millions of people in remote and rural areas high-speed internet beamed down from space. FILE PHOTO: A scale model of an Airbus OneWeb satellite and
Ariane Soyuz rocket launch with six OneWeb satellites on board.Photo: Service Optique CSG / Copyright: ESA/SNES/ARIANESPACE In the early Wednesday evening on the coast of French Guiana, an Arianespace Soyuz rocket successfully launched. It carried with it the first six satellites for internet startup OneWeb, which is building a 650-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit,
KOUROU, French Guiana — The first six satellites in a constellation that could one day number close to 2,000 were successfully launched Feb. 27 aboard a Soyuz rocket. The Russian rocket, adapted for European launch provider Arianespace to operate in the tropical weather that defines the company’s spaceport in French Guiana, deployed the first two
Once again, scientists have scrutinised one of the strangest stars in the sky to understand its wild light fluctuations. The latest observations of KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby’s star or Boyajian’s star, have scanned for the kind of laser emission that could be produced by a civilisation. Well, guess what. It’s been three-and-a-half years
Winter weather in the United Kingdom is known to be raw and bleak but, on Monday, the Sun shined in all its glory and temperatures surged to levels not seen before during the cold, dark season. Temperatures in the community of Trawsgoed in Wales shot up to 69.1 degrees (20.6 Celsius), the warmest temperature ever
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Looking for a quick way to stop North Korean missiles immediately after lift-off, the Pentagon is studying as a near-term option whether a group of F-35 fighter jets hovering around North Korean airspace could pick off freshly-launched rockets. In its current form, the idea defies physics, missile defense experts say. It calls
A robotic arm refills thousands of test tubes uncomplainingly every dayArctoris We all imagine that a typical day of a molecular biologist has a lot of laboratory work, refilling and labeling test tubes with micro quantities of several solutions. These experiments take place in laboratories containing a range of expensive medical equipment, such as high-resolution
SAN FRANCISCO — Iceye, the Earth observation startup based in Helsinki, has two new vice presidents to help customers gain access to imagery from its existing and planned Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites . Iceye hired Leola Moss as its vice president for product delivery and operations. Steve Young joins Iceye as vice president for business
People who believe in conspiracy theories might be more likely to engage in petty crime, and no, this is not a conspiracy. A new study from researchers at the University of Kent and Staffordshire University in the UK has demonstrated a link between this type of thinking and how people feel about, uh, not acting
There’s a lot of junk in Earth’s orbit we don’t tend to see in our skies; a lot of that space debris is pretty small, but there are some bigger pieces. As they lose altitude, we can expect to see them again – and one could be coming rather soon. That piece of junk is Kosmos 482, a
As far as environmental supervillains go, atmospheric carbon is the kingpin of crime. And just like in the comic books, every time we think we have a way to lock it up for good, it gets away from us. What we need is something cheap. Scalable. Something that can have a hope of ripping enough
Facebook’s treatment of its legions of content moderators is under scrutiny after the publication of a report alleging tough working conditions and low pay that saw some employees break down under the weight of the content they were reviewing. On Monday, The Verge’s Casey Newton published an extensive investigation into a content-moderation workplace in Arizona. These
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Looking for a quick way to stop North Korean missiles immediately after lift-off, the Pentagon is studying as a near-term option whether a group of F-35 fighter jets hovering around North Korean airspace could pick off freshly-launched rockets. FILE PHOTO: A Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft is seen at the ILA Air Show
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A wind farm in West TexasGetty DeepMind claims it has trained an artificial intelligence system how to predict the energy output of Google wind farms in the U.S. The variable nature of wind makes it difficult to accurately predict how much energy a wind farm could produce in any given
HELSINKI — Chinese defense contractor CASIC is preparing to launch a new solid propellant launch vehicle in the first half of the year as part of a multiplatform commercial space strategy. The Kuaizhou-11 (KZ-11) debut launch will carry six satellites, according to Chinese language news portal 3SNews, though it provided no information on the payloads
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is heading to the Sun.Thermal Protection System Engineer Betsy Congdon (Johns Hopkins APL) outlines why Parker can take the heat. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2O7YKsK | NASA launch schedule: https://go.nasa.gov/2JfklMB Music credit: Cheeky Chappy [Main Track] by Jimmy Kaleth, Ross Andrew McLean Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Genna Duberstein (USRA): Lead Producer/Lead Editor
Crispr Therapeutics shares surged after the company said it has treated the first human with the same genetic technology that shares its name in an early-stage study. Crispr Therapeutics and partner Vertex Pharmaceuticals said on Monday morning that the first patient in a trial using CTX001, a therapy created using Crispr technology, as a treatment for
Japan’s space agency pulled off something awesome this week. Its spacecraft Hayabusa2 touched down on asteroid Ryugu, collected a sample, and jumped off again. To remember this, we now have an epic photo of Ryugu’s surface, potentially showing marks of that historic encounter. Hayabusa2 actually arrived at Ryugu in June of last year, and dropped
New analysis of 40 years’ worth of satellite data shows that it’s a near-certainty that humanity is actively causing global climate change. Climate deniers often claim, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that the planet is heating up and natural disasters are becoming more intense and common just because that’s the way it is –
The newly launched Nokia 9 PureView has something no other smartphone has: a five-camera array on the back. But before the handset has even got into people’s hands, there are claims that it’s triggering trypophobia – a fear of clusters of small holes. While those with trypophobia will no doubt try their best to avoid
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Drones flights will be carried out soon to test NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) system. The future looks like it will be filled with drones in populated urban areas. As a result, NASA wants to carry out flight tests of drones in populated
WASHINGTON — Despite a new emphasis on a streamlined, “lean” sample return architecture, a NASA official says it’s unlikely that suite of missions will be able to return Martian rock and soil samples to the Earth before the end of the 2020s. Speaking at a virtual meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG)
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This visualization tracks the trajectory of the Voyager 1 spacecraft through the solar system. Launched on September 5, 1977, it was one of two spacecraft sent to visit the giant planets of the outer solar system. Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and Saturn before being directed out of the solar system. To fit the 40
This February, mother nature is keeping us occupied with a puzzling new riddle, and the solution has even got the scientists stumped: how exactly did a humpback whale end up dead on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil? It’s a curiosity that has drawn worldwide attention. The 8-metre-long carcass (26 feet) was found
It was the most explosive scientific controversy of 2018: Chinese scientist He Jiankui brazenly announced in November he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies using CRISPR. He’s admission – including that twin girls called Lulu and Nana from his experiment had already been born – provoked immediate international uproar in the scientific community, with critics
Over four billion years ago, when Earth was turbulent and new, a strange spark of life grew into existence. We’re not entirely sure how it happened, but evidence suggests it was deep under the sea, far below the reach of the Sun’s rays. If we can figure out how that spark formed, it could help
Stratocumulus clouds are rather boring. They’re not as elegant as cirrus clouds (those horsetail wisps high in the sky) or as majestic as cumulonimbus clouds (big, scary thunderheads). But stratocumulus clouds, which hover low in the sky and create vast decks of cloud cover, have a supreme value in our warming world: Their white tops
A man died after crashing a 2016 Tesla Model S into a tree in Miami, Florida yesterday afternoon, according to local news. The car reportedly swerved through multiple lanes of traffic before hitting a median and some trees and bursting into flames – and the death may have been related to the electric carmaker’s iconic
Bertini fresco of Galileo Galilei and Doge of VeniceCredit: Wikipedia commons Today, even those with the most basic grade school educations take it for granted that we have split the atom; walked on the Moon; and possess a fundamental understanding of how the Cosmos began. As for those who persist in believing that the Earth
One of the consequences of creating a Space Force is the breakup of Air Force Space Command. The procurement of commercial satellite communications services that is now under AFSC would be reassigned to the Secretary of the Air Force. WASHINGTON — The Air Force Space Command in December assumed responsibility for the procurement of commercial
Have you ever wondered how fish manage to survive temperatures below freezing in Antarctic waters? (You are now.) It’s a pretty neat question – and now, thanks to genome analysis, we actually have an answer. For one fish, that is. And boy is it an odd one. It’s called the Antarctic blackfin icefish (Chaenocephalus aceratus),
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