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...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
...resolution and precision in the astrometry to actually see the orbit happening," said UNM Professor Greg Taylor. "It's a bit of a triumph in technology to have been able to do this." The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a system made up of 10 radio...
