Why the Soviets lost the race of the moon | Space

[ad_1] About two weeks before the launch of the Apollo 11 mission on the Moon, Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman was in Moscow for a courtesy visit on behalf of NASA. The visit was planned for months but the timing could not have been worse. The American astronauts were preparing to land on the moon … Read more

Starship Engine Optimized for SpaceX Space Could Be Ready Sooner Than Later

[ad_1] Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, believes that an optimized version of the vacuum-optimized Raptor system will be ready for Starship's short-term launches, indicating that development has been prioritized or more easily rolled out than planned. This is a significant change from a strategy discussed by Musk just four months ago, in which only one … Read more

Climate change study: Sea level rise resulting from the melting ice of Antarctica could move millions of people in two generations

[ad_1] Jonathan Bamber is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom); Michael Oppenheimer is Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University. Antarctica is farther from civilization than any other place on Earth. Greenland's ice cap is closer to home, but about a tenth the size of its southern brother. … Read more

Meteorites may be excavating lunar water

[ad_1] (more about Power Words) annual Adjective for something that happens every year. (in botany) A plant that lives only one year, so it usually has a showy flower and produces many seeds. astronaut Someone trained to travel for space for research and exploration. atmosphere The envelope of gases surrounding Earth or another planet. chemical … Read more

Mathematicians revive the abandoned approach of Riemann's hypothesis

[ad_1] Many approaches to the Riemann hypothesis have been proposed over the last 150 years, but none of them has overcome the most well-known problem of mathematics. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNASsuggests that one of these old approaches is more practical than what has been achieved so … Read more