[ad_1] A Falcon 9 launch can typically carry around 60 Starlink satellites. SpaceX SpaceX aims to launch its 16th batch of its Starlink broadband satellites on Saturday, which looks like a busy day for Elon Musk’s company. Boosting a new set of its routers in orbit has become a matter of routine for SpaceX as … Read more
[ad_1] Leonardo DeVinci is famous for its elaborate and nuanced works of art and advanced technological ideas. But new research has revealed another level of complexity to his drawings: a hidden world of tiny life forms in his works. The findings, the researchers said, could help build a microbiome “catalog” for works of art. Each … Read more
[ad_1] Chang’e-5 targets Mons Rümker, a volcanic mound that may contain 1.3 billion year old lava. NASA By Dennis NormileNov 19, 2020 @ 10:50 am On Earth, deep time is an open book. By measuring traces of radioactive compounds in rocks that decay with metronomical regularity, dating experts have learned when the oceans opened, volcanoes … Read more
[ad_1] Life on planet Earth is a fragile thing. All it takes is a finicky asteroid, and bam, this is the most dominant group of land animals on our planet. Without the 10-kilometer-wide meteorite that rushed to Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs could have continued to rule the earth, suggests a new document. As … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists have long speculated that dinosaurs were in decline before the catastrophic impact of asteroids wiped them out 66 million years ago – but a new study suggests prehistoric beasts may have thrived. Previous work used fossil records to assess the diversity of dinosaurs, but researchers in the latest study explain how bones are … Read more
[ad_1] There is a whole universe in your brain, but have you ever thought that your brain could reflect the vast universe? The neural network in the brain and the network of galaxies in the cosmos could in fact be reflections of each other. This is what you get when you bring the mind of … Read more
[ad_1] FP trendNovember 19, 2020 2:08:41 p.m. IST A volcano in Russian led to the formation of a new mineral that had never been documented before. The research team named the sulphate mineral “petrovite”, with the chemical formula Na10CaCu2 (SO4) 8. The mineral was found in the volcanic landscape in the far east of Russia, … Read more
[ad_1] Star light Five years ago, the New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto and deeper into the Kuiper Belt. Because it is so far from the Sun and cosmic dust in the nearest solar system that reflects its light, blinding astronomers, scientists decided to use New Horizons instruments to determine how far the universe is really … Read more
[ad_1] Artistic design of a galaxy with an active core propelling jets of matter outward from the center of the galaxy. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO / AUI / NSF Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores that have … Read more
[ad_1] The moon will do a show Thursday night with Jupiter and Saturn. Guillaume Souvant / AFP via Getty Images He is mindful of the night sky to offer so many beautiful views with so many people stuck at the house. Of Leonid meteor shower at Halloween blue moon, sky watchers were recently spoiled. And … Read more