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08/08/2020

"Who put that there?"

  A mysterious origin and Arthur C. Clarke-level science-fiction speculation about the 17-mile-wide, deeply-grooved moon as an alien artifact captured in the ancient past by Mars gravitational field, may explain Russia’s almost mystical obsession with Phobos. First the Soviet Union, then more rec...

06/08/2020

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04/08/2020

SN8’s Nosecone also continued its preparations inside the Windbreak.

Starship SN5 is aiming to succeed were its predecessors have failed by passing all the…

02/08/2020

Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core.

Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core. Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completel

31/07/2020

"An elegant demonstration of a fundamental property of nature".

This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first-ever photo of quantum entanglement - a phenomenon so strange, physicist Albert Einstein famously described it as 'spooky action at a distance'.

29/07/2020

The technology will help the energy company to capture carbon emissions from natural gas-fired power plants.

A new material that could capture more than 90% of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources has been discovered by ExxonMobil.

27/07/2020

Scientists have released the largest three-dimensional, or 3D map of the universe ever created.

Scientists release the largest three-dimensional (3D) map of the universe ever created.

27/07/2020

The image seen below is a new shot of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in early July 2020.

The image seen below is a new shot of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in early July 2020. The image is so crisp that it almost looks like an artist rendering, but NASA assures it’s…

27/07/2020

"The Sun actually orbits Jupiter slightly."

It's common knowledge that the Sun is the centre of the Solar System. Around it, the planets orbit – along with a thick belt of asteroids, some meteor fields, and a handful of far-travelling comets.

27/07/2020

Next, the real fun begins with the car-sized (2.9m) 2020 OY4, set to skip by at a distance of just 41,500km.

As the week begins with a flurry of asteroidal activity, with four space rocks set to shoot past Earth on Tuesday alone, two Indian teenagers have discovered yet another space rock due to cross paths with our planet.

27/07/2020

It could be used for bases on Mars.

One of the biggest dangers of interplanetary travel is radiation exposure. In a single round trip to Mars, for instance, you may absorb 60 percent of the maximum recommend lifetime dosage. One surprising solution may be mold, according to researchers from Stanford and North Carolina universities. Th...

27/07/2020

"It's amazing that even over a few years, we're seeing seasonal changes on Saturn."

The Hubble space telescope has spent the past 30 years orbiting 547 km (340 miles) above Earth. The ageing satellite has had a couple of hiccups in the last few years, but it's not done taking incredible photos of our cosmic backyard yet.

27/07/2020

Elon Musk dreams of providing satellite internet access around the world with this mega-constellation of satellites.

Astronomers and photographers have been looking skyward to observe the comet, but one astrophotographer got a nasty surprise when Starlink satellites photobombed an otherwise excellent time-lapse photo.

27/07/2020

Perseverance will boot up a mission to collect samples of Martian dirt that might have traces of ancient life.

“I see it as kind of a Wright brothers moment on another planet,” says the project's chief engineer at JPL.