Space Rocket

20/10/2020

The icy moon's promise is also its vulnerability.

18/10/2020

Ultraviolet light from giant stellar flares can destroy a planet's habitability.

Ultraviolet light from giant stellar flares can destroy a planet's habitability. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will help astrobiologists understand how much radiation planets experience during super flares and whether life could exist on worlds beyond our solar sy...

16/10/2020

Narrow rings and gaps have been seen in a particularly young disk of dust and gas around a nascent star, using the world’s most powerful radio telescope.

Rings and gaps observed in a very young protostellar disk.

14/10/2020

On October 5, 2020, a team of scientists announced the discovery of a group of one-billion-year-old Martian sand dunes in the planet’s Valles Marineris region.

The discovery of near-perfectly preserved billion-year-old Martian dunes is helping scientists to unravel the geologic and climatic history of the red planet.

12/10/2020

Early research on atomic nuclei yielded a wave of discoveries.

Early research on atomic nuclei yielded a wave of discoveries. A nuclear physics professor from Florida International University was among a team of researchers that proposed something so out of this world, colleagues first hesitated to accept it was possible. In 1993, they boldly predicted

10/10/2020

This spectacular image from inside the International Space Station's observation dome peeks through clouds to reveal Earth's oceans from 400 kilometres away.

This spectacular image from inside the International Space Station's observation dome peeks through clouds to reveal Earth's oceans from 400 kilometres away

08/10/2020

Stars are born as dense clouds of interstellar material collapse under their own gravity, spinning into flat discs that eventually spool into baby stars.

Stars are born as dense clouds of interstellar material collapse under their own gravity, spinning into flat discs that eventually spool into baby stars. Now, for the first time, hints of planet formation have been detected around a protostar so yo

08/10/2020

Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing.

Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows a young proto-stellar disk with multiple gaps and rings of dust. This new result, just pub...

08/10/2020

Veteran NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will join astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the inaugural crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner launching to the International Space Station in 2021.

08/10/2020

The CU Boulder designed device will revolutionize the orbital dining experience.

The units were designed by BioServe Space Technologies at UCB and are only about the size of a standard microwave. ISS has a water-cooling system we’ll be tapped into to directly dump the waste heat and keep the system cool.”

08/10/2020

Before the Big Bang, when our universe began to rapidly expand, there may have been a previous universe whose place we took.

“There was something before the Big Bang and that something is what we will have in our future."

08/10/2020

Earth is the only planet we know of so far to host life, but it may not be the best place for life when compared with "superhabitable" planets, according to a new study.

Earth is the only planet we know of so far to host life, but it may not be the best place for life when compared with "superhabitable" planets, according to a new study. A superhabitable planet would be slightly older, bigger, warmer and wetter than Earth.