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...
03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
... on another planet – the team found that some isotopic ratios, when compared with earlier samples, were a bit different than expected. The researchers realised that these subtle but important differences might be due to a process...
30 November 2016
German company announce their 'Mission to the Moon' plans
... dreams. You never know what is possible until you try”. To see the film, click here: http://bit.ly/mttm-video
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... radio wavelengths, in a pattern consistent with other magnetars. "Our recent observations show that this object contains a bit of the 'astrophysical DNA' of two different families of neutron stars," said Tom Prince, an astrophysicist at JPL/Caltech...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
..., but this would be approximately a week long mission – and it would skim the surface of the moon, go quite a bit farther out into deep space, and then loop back to Earth. I’m guessing probably distance wise, maybe...
