Massive water geysers spotted on Jupiter’s moon Europa, possibly from subsurface ocean.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources already point to the existence of an ocean located under Europa’s icy crust. Researchers are not yet fully [...]
Mars One hires Lockheed Martin to build robot lander for first privately funded Mars mission to launch in 2018
Mars One has secured lead suppliers for its first mission to Mars. The mission, slated for a 2018 launch, will include a robotic lander and a communications satellite. Mars One has contracted Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to develop mission concept studies. The Mars lander will be built by Lockheed Martin and [...]
NASA finds water on planets 1000 light years from Earth that orbit star, could be prime candidates for life
Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The presence of atmospheric water was reported previously on a few exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, but this is the first study to conclusively measure and compare [...]
The VASIMR Plasma Rocket: Bridging the Gap in Space Travel
Plasma rocket technology was first introduced to the scientific community in 1977 by Franklin Chang Díaz, a Costa Rican scientist and astronaut. The idea has been developed since then and is now at the stage where it can be implemented into future projects. The technology allows for considerably faster space travel than what the technologies currently employed by [...]
NASA Confirms Evidence of Jet in Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have long sought strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Finally they have found it, in new results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope. Previous studies, [...]
Harrison Ford to David Blaine “Get the F out of my house!”
Harrison Ford, also known as Han Solo, was recently quite surprised when David Blaine performed a card trick in his home. Harrison is 71 years old and should be immune to Hollywood tricks after such great roles in Star Wars and Indiana Jones but David completely fooled him.
Tesla Motors to launch autonomous cars within 3 years
Elon Musk believes that Tesla Motors will be able to produce autonomous cars within 3 years. “We should be able to do 90 per cent of miles driven within three years,” he said. Mr. Musk didn’t reveal further details of Tesla’s autonomy project. Though he did say that it was “internal development”. “It’s not speculation,” [...]
37 galaxies found to have X-Ray sources in center, powered by supermassive black holes
The spiral galaxy NGC 3627 is located about 30 million light years from Earth. This composite image includes X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope (red), and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (yellow). The inset shows the central region, which [...]
Hubble space telescope reveals astonishing first-ever pictures of Milky Way’s early years
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the first visual evidence of how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, assembled itself into the majestic pinwheel of stars we see today. Astronomers used Hubble’s deep-sky surveys to study the evolution of 400 galaxies similar to the Milky Way and noted their appearance at various stages of development [...]
NASA Brings Earth Science ‘Big Data’ to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services
Climate change projections for the United States, such as the data shown in this image of average springtime temperature changes by the 2090s, will be available on the cloud through an agreement with Amazon Web Services. This data was produced by the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX), a research platform of the NASA Advanced Supercomputer Facility [...]
Chris Hadfield on Conan O’brien talks about Sandra Bullocks underwear and wearing a diaper
In this video from the Conan O’brien show, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield talks about the movie Gravity. Specifically, he talks about Sandra Bullocks underwear in the movie and how they aren’t an actual portrayal of the type of under garment that is worn during space flights. Hadfield equates his under-things as more of a halloween [...]
New Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch Aboard
Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and Japan are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:14 p.m. EST Wednesday, 10:14 a.m. Nov. 7, Kazakh time. NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer [...]
NASA and International Researchers Obtain Crucial Data from Meteoroid Impact
A team of NASA and international scientists for the first time have gathered a detailed understanding of the effects on Earth from a small asteroid impact. The unprecedented data obtained as the result of the airburst of a meteoroid over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of this natural phenomenon. [...]
Tesla has opened its first showroom in the UK
Tesla has opened its first showroom in the UK, located in the Westfield shopping center in west London. During their launch event Tesla stated that this is the first move into fully establishing the brand in the UK. As well as launching right-hand drive versions of the £55,000 Tesla Model S in the country soon, [...]
Mystery planet discovered that’s made of lava but has the density of Earth
Astronomers have discovered the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth. Kepler-78b whizzes around its host star every 8.5 hours, making it a blazing inferno and not suitable for life as we know it. The results are published in two papers in the journal Nature. “The [...]
