[ad_1] An Ariane 5 rocket takes off Saturday from the Guyanese Space Center in South America. Credit: ESA / CNES / Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin An Ariane 5 rocket put a robotic space tug and a pair of commercial communications satellites into orbit on Saturday following a flaming explosive … Read more
[ad_1] Enlarge / Crew Dragon splashes into the ocean on August 2. Bill Inglalls / NASA On a recent Sunday afternoon, a black and white spacecraft flew through the atmosphere, ionizing molecules and creating a blaze of plasma. In the middle of this fireball, two astronauts took shelter in the small haven of Dragonship Endeavor, … Read more
[ad_1] “I think it’s time for NASA to face the elephant in the room.” UFO skeptics, however, will likely dismiss the discovery as a product of pareidolia. Pareidolia, which is a product of apophenia, describes our tendency to see recognizable shapes and patterns in everyday objects. In this case, a strangely shaped rock and shadows … Read more
[ad_1] One of the major challenges in taking quantum technology from potential to reality is to make ultra-delicate quantum states last longer than a few milliseconds – and scientists have just raised the bar by a factor of about 10,000. They did this by tackling what is called decoherence: it is the disturbance of surrounding … Read more
[ad_1] Lava tubes beneath the surface of the Moon and Mars are large enough to house planetary bases as humanity further explores the cosmos, a recently published study suggests. Research notes that the tubes are probably between 100 and 1,000 times the size of those on Earth and can shield humans from cosmic radiation. The … Read more
[ad_1] The Greenland ice sheet may have reached a tipping point that puts it on an irreversible path to disappear completely. The snowfall that normally replenishes Greenland’s glaciers each year can no longer keep pace with the melting ice, according to researchers at Ohio State University. This means that the Greenland ice cap – the … Read more
[ad_1] This 3-panel artist’s concept illustrates new research, explaining why the bright red super-giant star Betelgeuse suddenly faded for several months in late 2019 and early 2020. In Panel 1, a glowing, hot plasma drop is ejected from the star. In panel 2, the exiting expelled gas expands rapidly outward and cools to form a … Read more
[ad_1] From NASA Mars helicopter, named Ingenuity, was successfully powered on for the first time in space last week. Ingenuity is the first helicopter designed to fly on another planet. He is currently traveling to the Red Planet on board NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover, which launched July 30. On August 7, the helicopter’s six … Read more
[ad_1] Planet X has a long and rich history of non-existence. For about 130 years, astronomers debated the existence of one or more additional planets to explain the deviations in the orbits of known planets (mainly Neptune and Uranus). Later, the list of deviations was expanded to cover trans-Neptunian objects. But none of the planet … Read more
[ad_1] NASA has doubled its expenses to help detect and possibly deflect asteroids in a collision with the Earth. Next year, the US space agency plans to spend $ 150 million on its "global defense" programs. Part of this money would be devoted to the development of asteroid and comet detection systems, such as the … Read more