31 January 2018
Surprise find of complex organic molecules in LMC
... this same youthful makeup because of their relatively low masses, which severely throttles back the...six or more atoms including carbon. Although it is considered a relatively simple compound compared to its larger counterparts, even methanol (CH3OH...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
...during the formation of its planets and has remained relatively unchanged since. This ancient relic, and others like... too. Cordiner and colleagues say that as the HCN abundance relative to water appears similar to that of typical, previously observed ...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... distance range around a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. “KOI-456.01 is relatively large compared to many other planets that are considered potentially habitable. But it’s the combination of this less...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... independently of Earth. Crewed space missions over the last four decades have been either relatively short (lasting a few days or weeks) or relatively close to Earth, such as in the low-Earth orbit (LEO) of the International Space Station...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... Launch Services (ILS), ULA, Sea Launch and Land Launch, all of which were oriented towards launching relatively large satellites to geostationary orbit. Meanwhile, Eurockot and Kosmotras specialized in launching light, low-orbit apparatuses on this...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... needed in order to explore and develop space. However, the overall economic activity associated with spinoff efforts is relatively small, likely because the technologies in question were developed for government needs and not in response to market...
