The proposed EmDrive captured the public’s imagination with the promise of super-fast space travel that broke the laws of physics. Some researchers have detected impulses from the EmDrive that seemed to prove …
Read More »Interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua could be the shattered remnant of a Pluto-like object
Artist’s rendition of ‘Oumuamua.Picture: William Hartmann Four years ago, astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. The object exhibited a number of strange and inexplicable …
Read More »Mars hides its ‘lost’ water beneath the surface, new research suggests
A view of Mars made up of about one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Picture: NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS The water that used to exist on Mars slowly seeped into space, or at …
Read More »Proposed sperm bank on the moon
What our sperm would see if we left it on the moon: Earth’s view appears above the lunar horizon when the Apollo 11 Command Module appears within view of the Moon before …
Read More »Having lost its original atmosphere, this strange planet is now growing a new one
Artist’s rendering of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b,Picture: NASA / ESA / R. Injured (IPAC / Caltech) Who says you can’t lose your atmosphere with a nearby red dwarf? and then grow …
Read More »Hover over ‘Farout’, astronomers confirm that ‘Farfarout’ is the farthest known object in the Solar System
A view of the night sky from the Uruguayan countryside on May 10, 2019.Photo: Mariana Suarez (fake images) What astronomers believed to be the most distant object in the Solar System, “Farout”, …
Read More »Earth’s ‘mini-moon’ bid farewell this afternoon
Photo: NASA Image Library With everything happening in 2020, you can remember the story about the mysterious flying object that fell into the Earth’s orbit September 2020. Unsure of what exactly it …
Read More »Scientists discover strange “blue jet” source of electricity
Scientists have a look at it that it causes a strange electrical phenomenon known as Blue Jet Lightning. The instruments on the International Space Station did what was impossible for scientists on …
Read More »Ammonia May lurk in the Saturn of Ice Satons Moons, Clue to possible Ochens
Back in 2006 by Saturn, Sun.The image: NASA / JPL / Space Sciences Institute ()fair use) Thirteen years ago, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was orbiting Saturn, not through its first mission, when an …
Read More »Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in extreme weather events in Australia, reports found. Science
Australia’s climate has entered a new era of continuous extreme weather events, such as hazardous bushes and heatwaves, courtesy of rising average temperatures, a new report by the country’s two government climatology …
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