space

There’s a compelling reason scientists think we’ve never found aliens, and it suggests humans are already going extinct 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2017
Unchecked climate change would eventually lead to widespread devastation on Earth.

By David Aragorn
Space sound waves around Earth: Electrons whistle while they work?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2017
NASA’s Van Allen Probes have observed a new population of space sound waves, called plasmaspheric hiss, which are important in removing high-energy particles from around Earth that can damage satellites.

By David Aragorn
NASA just discovered the first food source for potential aliens 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2017
Searching for aliens is a tricky business. Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
Planets like Earth may have had muddy origins 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2017
Scientists have long held the belief that planets — including Earth — were built from rocky asteroids, but new research challenges that view.

By David Aragorn
There Might Be 100 Billion Brown Dwarfs in the Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2017
A new study of a nearby cluster of newly formed stars reveals that brown dwarfs may rival stars in the Milky Way in number, with one brown dwarf for every two bona fide stars.

By David Aragorn
New Satellite “Mayak” Might Light Up the Sky 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 19, 2017
Russia’s first crowd-funded satellite, named Mayak (Russian for “beacon of light”), promises to be the “brightest object in the night sky next to the Moon.”

By David Aragorn
Astronomers have detected ‘strange signals’ coming from a star 11 light-years away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 18, 2017
Astronomers say they’ve detected “strange signals” coming from the direction of a small, dim star located about 11 light-years from Earth.

By David Aragorn
China tests self-sustaining space station in Beijing 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 18, 2017
Sealed behind the steel doors of two bunkers in a Beijing suburb, university students are trying to find out how it feels to live in a space station on another planet, recycling everything from plant cuttings to urine.

By David Aragorn
Congress Close to Approving a New Space Army 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 18, 2017
While fighting climate change and providing health care are both just too economically burdensome for America, members of the House believe there’s still enough cash to fund a space army that would fight off… the space enemies.

By David Aragorn
Shedding light on Galaxies’ rotation secrets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 15, 2017
Spiral galaxies are found to be strongly rotating, with an angular momentum higher by a factor of about 5 than ellipticals. In a new study, the researchers have traced back the dichotomy in the angular momentum of spiral and elliptical galaxies to their different formation history. In particular, the low angular momentum of ellipticals is mainly originated by nature in the central regions during the early galaxy formation process.

By David Aragorn