The search for alien life0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2021
New technologies and techniques are searching for signs of alien life as never before. What and where will that potential life be?
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Nasa’s James Webb space telescope passes launch simulation tests0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 16, 2020
Environmental tests exposed spacecraft to vibrations and noise it will face during ascent
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope passes crucial launch-simulation tests0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 7, 2020
The $9.8 billion observatory is scheduled to launch in October 2031.
Spacewatch: Nasa delays James Webb space telescope to October 20210
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Delay is result of coronavirus pandemic and technical challenges as troubled project is set to cost £6.8bn
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Clears Critical Sunshield Deployment Testing0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2019
The sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed a test critical to preparing the observatory for its 2021 launch.
Helium Detected in Atmosphere of Exoplanet for First Time0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2018
An international team of astronomers has detected helium — the second-most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen — in the atmosphere of WASP-107b, a super-Neptune exoplanet approximately 200 light-years away in the Virgo constellation. This is the first time this inert gas has been detected in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.
Nasa’s to-do list for 2018: Robots in Mars, asteroid visits, touching the sun and more0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 3, 2018
2018 is slated to be an exciting year for Nasa and its fans.
Supermassive black hole is the most distant ever observed0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2017
The unexpected discovery has astronomers rethinking ideas about the early days of the universe.
Senate restores funding for NASA Earth science and satellite servicing programs0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2017
NASA’s Restore-L mission would develop satellite servicing technology and refuel the Landsat 7 spacecraft.
An almost impossible engineering project lets us time travel to the start of the universe0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 21, 2017
Time travel is possible, in a way.
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