One of NASA’s most complex measurement satellites has confirmed that Einstein was right all along: massive objects do distort the fabric of time and space. This ‘geodetic’ effect may only be part of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, but these…
Germany’s Black Forest is in fact pretty green, but scientists at NASA predict that there may be real black forests on Earth-like planets orbiting stars emitting different wavelengths than our Sun. Photosynthesis on our planet absorbs essentially red and…
The search for an extra-solar planet with the same composition and size as Earth – therefore a good contender for the presence of life – is rendered extremely difficult by the glare of the star it orbits, and has…
A previous report on the absence of detectable water on an extra-solar planet had spurred the comparison with Frank Herbert’s famous “Planet Dune”, also known as Arrakis. New analysis of the data collected by the…
Apollo missions packed all they needed on board and deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS) is straightforward compared to the complexity of interplanetary logistics. NASA is taking successfully delivery of supplies to future long-term bases on the Moon…
The French National Space Agency has decided to set up a website making available to the general public all recorded UFO sightings over the national territory in the past 50 years. The goal of such a release of information…
After an failed first attempt, a second Falcon 1 rocket was launched this week and reached an altitude of 200 miles, just 50 miles below the International Space Station’s orbit. Falcon 1 is manufactured and launched privately by Space…
NASA’s Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), which is originally planned to ferry astronauts to and from the Moon, could also serve to explore nearby asteroids. While the craft, named Orion, would orbit the object, the crew could land on the…
Astronomers have found a field of over 1,000 super-massive black holes, gathering increasing information about how those anomalies occur and develop. Earth remains however pretty safe, as these “monsters” are between 6 and 11 billion light years away.
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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has recently been asserted as a good contender for harboring life — not water-based life like on Earth, but methane-based instead. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has brought back pictures of what seems to be a very…
Two extra-solar gas giant planets show no evidence of water in their atmosphere. One can’t help but think of Frank Herbert’s planet Arrakis in his space epic Dune.
Contrary to predictions, two planets orbiting distant stars show no signs
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Research into motion-sensitive proteins could allow space suits to generate power from the astronauts’ movements in the space…
They are focusing on a protein called prestin, which is found in the outer hair cells of the human ear. In
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