06 November 2017
Enceladus more active than previously thought
... on this relatively small ball of ice (Enceladus is just over 500 kilometres in diameter, thus fitting comfortably between San Francisco and Los Angeles), could be quantified. The key is the highly fragmented rocky core, as it favours a scenario...
16 March 2018
Trump suggests creating a Space Force to fight in space
While addressing an audience of service members at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, U.S on Tuesday, President Trump talked candidly of creating a “Space Force,” a branch of the U.S military primed to deal with ...
09 April 2018
Plans for first-ever luxury space hotel unveiled
... in the first-ever luxury space hotel should be on your agenda instead. Unveiled at the recent Space 2.0 summit in San Jose, California, the Aurora Station is the vision of Orion Span; a privately funded space entrepreneurial company who...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... changed all of that and two researchers, Christopher Glein and J. Hunter Waite from Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio have been analysing the nitrogen content in the western lobe of Pluto’s “heart” – the near-equatorial...
18 February 2019
Gigantic remnant found around an exploding star
..., in effect, the measuring rods that allow us to map the visible universe," said Allen Shafter an astrophysicist from San Diego State University who helped find M31N 2008-12a. "Despite their importance, we don't fully understand...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
... exploration," said Dr. Kurt Retherford, the principal investigator of the LAMP instrument from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Finding enough freely available water on the lunar surface would be advantageous to any future Moon...
