November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... be taken to Antarctica to produce fruits inside the FEG. Strawberries are known to have high psychological benefits to isolated crews and they also contain a number of valuable nutrients. Project status The facility will be transported to Antarctica...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... of growing crops in deep space. According to NASA, five major hazards appear during long spaceflights: space radiation, isolation and confinement, distance from Earth, low gravity, and the hostile and closed environment of a spacecraft. Living...
05 April 2018
Newly discovered black holes suggests thousands more in our galaxy
...low mass stars, the team could infer the population of isolated black holes out in the galaxy and the figures are quite...300 to 500 black hole-low mass binaries and about 10,000 isolated black holes are expected to exist in the area surrounding Sgr A*....
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... effort is rampant and today there still exists a situation wherein nations tend to pursue planetary exploration largely in isolation, often reinventing the wheel at an enormous cost. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully tested...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
..., undisturbed by ground motion, is required. The principle of such an observatory is that free-falling test masses, which are isolated from all external forces, will move along geodesics of the curved space-time. If a gravitational wave travels...
29 October 2018
A rare discovery helps scientists measure a key process in star formation
.... Now, by using a novel observation method, an international team of astronomers have discovered a striking circle of atomic hydrogen in a rare, isolated dark cloud named B227 – the first time such a structure has been seen in a molecular cloud. And...
