25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
... Dawn. Of particular interest is the dramatic, conical mountain on Ceres that Dawn snapped. This mountain is just a little bit shorter than Mt. Everest. What particularly makes the mountain stand out is just how small Ceres truly...
29 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... own CDR back in August). The first crewed flight of SLS and Orion is likely to happen in 2023 – which is a bit farther away than the original plan of conducting it in August of 2021. The delay is happening due to financial reasons...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... them all. After all my dear Washington, I know you have always wanted what is best for me. While I am a bit of a free spirit, I appreciate all you've done, and I want us to work together. So let's use this next year...
14 March 2016
And it's off! ExoMars 2016 launches successfully
... of events today. Sending a satellite into Earth’s orbit is one thing, but embarking on an interplanetary mission however, is a bit more challenging. It takes a lot of energy to fly to Mars and there is no shortcut,” said Rolf Densing ESA Director...
19 July 2016
Gravity waves on Venus create 'fountain of Aphrodite'
... a mysterious ultraviolet absorber, but we still don't know its identity," says Bertaux. "This finding helps us understand a bit more about it and its behaviour – for example, that it's produced beneath the cloud-tops, and that...
30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
.... Credit: Bursov et al.; Centauri Dreams. HD 164595 is a sunlike star, roughly 95 light-years away from Earth. The exciting bit is that this star has at least one potentially habitable planet, called HD 164595b – roughly the size of Neptune...
