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Russia May Send Spacecraft To Knock Away Asteroid That Could Hit Earth
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW — Russia’s space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely. A...
Russian Space Program Tech Leads to Hydrogen Storage Breakthrough
Breakthrough uses capillary array to store hydrogen Many alternative fuel sources are being eyed to help reduce pollution and our need for imported oil. Among these alternative power sources are solar power, electricity, and hydrogen among others. Hy...
The first glimpse of dark matter?
Dark matter may make up most of the “cosmic web” of the Universe By Victoria Gill US scientists have reported the detection of signals that could indicate the presence of dark matter. A team announced on Thursday detecting two events with...
Galactic Tide May Have Influenced Life on Earth
The galactic tide is strong enough to influence Oort Cloud comets, which means it may also have helped shape our planet. The Moon’s tides have been an ever-present force in Earth’s history, shaping the landscape and the lives of the creat...
Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Lake on Saturn’s Moon Titan
This image shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection. (Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/DLR) NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has ca...
Suzaku Catches Retreat of a Black Hole’s Disk
GX 339-4, illustrated here, is among the most dynamic binaries in the sky, with four major outbursts in the past seven years. In the system, an evolved star no more massive than the sun orbits a black hole estimated at 10 solar masses. (Credit: ESO/L...
First Known Binary Star Is Discovered to Be a Triplet, Quadruplet, Quintuplet, Sextuplet System
This image shows Alcor and the newly discovered Alcor B, as imaged by scientists at the University of Rochester. (Credit: University of Rochester) In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big ...
Cassini sheds light on Saturn’s 30- and 300-year mysteries
(Related to Post: Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness) (Video link – talking about the hexagon shape) Researchers have found that Saturn’s moon Iapetus may have an active water cycle, while the planet itself h...
California gives green light for space-based solar
by Martin LaMonica California regulators on Thursday approved an ambitious project to beam solar energy from space starting in 2016. Under a power purchase agreement approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, utility Pacific Gas & E...
Suzaku X-Ray Observatory Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal
This image from the Japanese Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics shows the X-ray glow of the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit gas that fills the Perseus cluster. The white box indicates the area explored by the Suzaku X-ray telescope to de...
“Hypernovas” – The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed
Most astronomers today believe that one of the most plausible reasons we have yet to detect intelligent life in the universe is due to the deadly effects of local supernova explosions that wipe out all life in a given region of a galaxy. While there ...
Is this the end for human space flight?
by Michael Hanlon and Ivan Semeniuk SO WE won’t be going to Mars, not in my lifetime anyway. And not back to the moon either, not for decades. Buzz Lightyear fantasies are dashed. Don’t believe the spin – the dream is ...
NASA sees “significant quantities” of water on the moon
NASA has decided it’s ready to talk about some of the data obtained when its LCROSS mission slammed two objects into the Moon: the ejected material contained 100kg of water, which created unambiguous signals in the probe’s spectroscopy eq...
Can scientists make a space elevator?
This concept image from NASA shows what a space elevator and transfer station could look like. By Doug Gross, CNN “The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius. A merely clever man could never have thought o...
Physicist Makes New High-resolution Panorama Of Milky Way
Full sky panorama of the Milky Way. Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central ...
Voices of long-dead stars haunt the galaxy
Some neutron stars only appear as radio blips (Image: NASA/NRAO/AUI/NSF) by David Shiga Mysterious radio blips that come from apparently empty regions of space may be the voices of long-dead stars. Thirteen unexplained radio blips have ...
Russia Proposes Nuclear Spaceship for Manned Mars Mission: Mimics 1960’s NASA Project Orion
Anatoly Perminov, Russia’s space chief, in a replay of the early 1960’s NASA Orion Project, proposes building a nuclear-powered ship with a megawatt-class nuclear reactor at a government meeting Wednesday but didn’t explain its pu...
First the Moon, Now Antarctica: China Mapping Bottom of the World in Awesome Detail
Chinese scientists have shifted its focus from mapping the moon to completing the world’s first land cover map of the Antarctica at the end of this year. The result will be the most accurate map of the continent ever published. Using the applic...
Sixty-Billion Stars: SuperComputing the Universe
The most powerful computer in the world is running the ultimate calculation, where rebooting the program would reset the entire universe. In simulation. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s ultraputer is crunching numbers bigger t...
NASA’s Energy Blasting Olympics!
The most exciting Robolympics* on Earth are starting again next week, and unfortunately you won’t see a second of it on TV. Because these contestants aren’t doing anything important like “throwing a round rock” or “run...
Farthest Galaxy Cluster Ever Detected
By Betsy Mason Captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and combined with data from infrared and optical telescopes, this image shows the farthest galaxy cluster ever detected. Designated JKCS041, the cluster is located 10.2 billion light-years...
Hundreds of Black Holes Roam the Outer Edges of the Milky Way -Why are They There?
Hundreds of rogue black holes should be traveling the Milky Way’s outskirts, each containing the mass of 1,000 to 100,000 suns. Each a remnant of the collapsed core of a really massive rapidly rotating star that exploded in a hypernova every ...
Small asteroid will fly by Earth tonight (10/16)
When it makes pass, space rock will be just inside moon’s orbit A small asteroid will buzz the Earth late Friday EDT, flying just inside the orbit of the moon. It should pass safely by our home planet, according to a crack team of NASA space rock t...
Asteroid Is Actually A Protoplanet, Study Of First High-resolution Images Of Pallas Confirms
Pallas’s largest crater-like feature seen in the digital model (left) and from two perspectives: appearing face-on (upper right) and edge-on along the limb (lower right). (Credit: This image is courtesy of Science/AAAS in a paper by Britney Sch...
