space

NASA is preparing to send its $23 million toilet to space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 1, 2020
It’ll be the first new loo since the 1990s.

By David Aragorn
Nasa astronauts going back to the Moon will be bombarded with cancerous rays 200 times greater than on Earth, study finds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2020
Nasa is expected to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024

By David Aragorn
NASA and SpaceX target Halloween for first Crew Dragon launch with astronauts 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2020
NASA and SpaceX confirmed the specific launch date for the first crewed mission of the Crew Dragon spacecraft.

By David Aragorn
“Ultra-hot Jupiter” exoplanet where iron turns to gas discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2020
The first results from ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (Cheops) exoplanet mission has revealed one of the hottest and most extreme planets orbiting another star. Located 322 light years away in the constellation of Libra, WASP-189 b is an ultra-hot Jupiter with a temperature so high that iron boils into a gas.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Ready for Space Lasers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2020
Perseverance is one of a few Mars spacecraft carrying laser retroreflectors. The devices could provide new science and safer Mars landings in the future.

By David Aragorn
Proposed Venus Balloon Mission Could Detect Life By 2022 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 29, 2020
Two researchers advocate sending a quick mission to Venus to try and quell debate over whether our sister planet’s middle atmosphere does in fact harbor some sort of microbial life.

By David Aragorn
NASA wants your help to work in the dark 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 29, 2020
NASA is awarding up to $5 million in prizes for technology that will provide power storage and management on the Moon.

By David Aragorn
A ‘lake’ on Mars may be surrounded by more pools of water 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 29, 2020
New radar data add to evidence of water under Mars’ south pole, but it’s not “a slam dunk yet”

By David Aragorn
Finding Martian Microbes Could Require Digging Miles Underground 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 26, 2020
NASA’s Perseverance rover is flying to Mars as you read this sentence. It will land there in February 2021 and set aside rocks with promising signs of ancient life, for a future mission to pick up for analysis.

By David Aragorn
New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 25, 2020
Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shelters for protection, scientists reported Friday.

By David Aragorn