space

Czech lab grows mustard plants for Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 2, 2019
Czech scientists have opened a lab to experiment growing food for environments with extreme conditions and lack of water, such as Mars.

By David Aragorn
Planetary Researchers Analyze Structure of Giant Martian Landslide 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 1, 2019
Unusually large and long ridges documented in massive landslides across our Solar System are commonly associated with the presence of ancient ice layers. To better understand how these features formed, an international team of planetary scientists analyzed 3D images of an extensive landslide in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. Their findings show the unique structures could have formed at high speeds of up to 224 mph (360 kmh) due to underlying layers of fragmented rocks; this challenges the idea that underlying layers of ice can only explain such long ridges.

By David Aragorn
NASA Unveils ‘Galaxy of Horrors’ Exoplanet Posters for Halloween 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 31, 2019
These “horrifyingly inhospitable planets” make outer space very spooky.

By David Aragorn
US Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Lands After Record 780-Day Mystery Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 30, 2019
What was it doing up there?

By David Aragorn
NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2019
NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers have spotted a new type of storm on Saturn 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2019
The tempests are larger than other squalls but smaller than massive Great White Spots

By David Aragorn
It’s an asteroid! No, it’s the new smallest dwarf planet in our solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2019
A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet — which could make it the smallest in the solar system — after new research revealed it’s shape, astronomers said on Monday.

By David Aragorn
Settlement or Colonization in Space, Which One Is More Humanistic?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2019
In the future, we’re expected to have sites on other planets, and the conflict about it is that if they should be called settlement or colonization.

By David Aragorn
SOFIA Spots Debris from Catastrophic Collision between Two Rocky Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2019
Astronomers using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have observed an unusually warm, dusty debris disk around BD +20 307, a binary star system located 300 light-years away in the constellation of Aries. Their results suggest that an extreme collision between two rocky planetary bodies is the most likely origin for the warm dust in the BD +20 307 system.

By David Aragorn
Strontium is the first heavy element detected from a neutron star merger 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2019
The find supports the idea that these smashups create many of the elements heavier than iron

By David Aragorn