The final frontier: European scientist are hoping they can send an oxygen plant to the moon for a sustainable long-term mission. The facility would convert moon dust into breathable oxygen for the settlers. The mission is still quite far out, but the team hopes to have a viable demonstration of the technology by the middle…
It is not every day that a successful test of a rocket involves destroying the launch vehicle in midflight. SpaceX managed the feat during the inflight abort test it conducted Sunday morning. The test was an important milestone in the development of commercial human spaceflight.The commercial spaceflight company launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees C requires a decarbonized world by 2050 at the latest, and a corresponding global transformation of the energy and land use systems of societies around the world. To achieve this goal of net-zero carbon by 2050, emissions need to be cut by half…
Home News An image shows one of the tiny zircon crystals found in Australia on a US dime. Even smaller particles within the zircon encode data about the state of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time the crystal formed. (Image: © University of Rochester / John Tarduno) Tiny crystals in Australia are helping scientists…
NASA’s MRO tracked this crater, which has been through some changes between 2008 and 2019. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona You might think Mars is a pretty static place since it’s lacking the oceans and atmospheric drama we have on Earth. But the dry Red Planet is surprisingly dynamic, as a new NASA GIF of a north-pole…
The fairing shielding 60 Starlink satellites awaits launch. SpaceX SpaceX and Elon Musk have a vision to blanket the Earth with its Starlink broadband service by launching tens of thousands of small satellites into a low orbit, and they’re wasting little time getting started. The company is set to launch another 60 of the space routers…
‘Dancing dragon’ feathered dinosaur fossil discovered in China – CNN
Gravity assist — “Getting past the orbit of Venus must have been challenging.” Eric Berger – Jan 20, 2020 4:57 pm UTC Enlarge / The Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory in California.Caltech Optical ObservatoriesAstronomers have found nearly 1 million asteroids in our Solar System, with the vast majority located in the asteroid belt between…
Halogenated compounds played a major role in global warming and Arctic sea ice loss in the late-20th century, a new study has found. Organic halogen compounds are known to have depleted atmospheric ozone concentrations, famously contributing to the ozone hole over the Antarctic. But until now, few studies have examined their other effects on climate,…
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