Sunday, 28 September 2025

Oxygen and water for lunar explorers can be extracted from moon rocks

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 247 views | 0 comments

A device that bakes moon rocks to temperatures above 1000°C can efficiently extract water and oxygen from the dirt, which could be helpful for future lunar explorers

Tags: Temperatures

Source: www.newscientist.com

Weird hybrid meteorite may be evidence of a chaotic early solar system

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 205 views | 0 comments

Jupiter’s early orbit had a wobble that may have flung asteroids from the inner and outer solar system into each other, creating hybrid rocks such as the Nedagolla meteorite that fell in India in 1870

Tags: Asteroids , India , Mel B.

Source: www.newscientist.com

Tim Peake: The future of humans in space

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 193 views | 0 comments

Tim Peake expects humans to be exploring the moon and within decades, the first humans will arrive at Mars.

Tags: Fire , Mars

Source: www.newscientist.com

Foundation review: Isaac Asimov TV adaptation is imaginative reworking

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 197 views | 0 comments

Apple TV's adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series stays true to the big ideas, but sensibly nixes the 1940s sexism

Source: www.newscientist.com

SpaceX’s Inspiration4 marks a shift towards privacy for space tourists

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 186 views | 0 comments

The Inspiration4 mission was the first orbital space flight to carry only private passengers and was mostly not broadcast publicly, a surprising change from the space agency transparency

Tags: Fire , Mars

Source: www.newscientist.com

Maps of planetary nurseries will help the complex hunt for alien life

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 229 views | 0 comments

Five planetary nurseries have been chemically mapped in the most detail ever, showing hints of unexpected variety and high concentrations of the chemicals required for life

Tags: Beer , Chemicals , Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 191 views | 0 comments

The BepiColombo mission will pass within about 200 kilometres of the surface of Mercury in October, where it will measure the planet’s magnetic field and exosphere

Tags: Fire

Source: www.newscientist.com

Mushballs inside Uranus and Neptune may solve an atmospheric mystery

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 201 views | 0 comments

Uranus and Neptune appear to have less ammonia than expected, but it might have been hidden by slushy balls of ammonia and water that hail down deep into the planets’ atmospheres

Tags: Beer

Source: www.newscientist.com

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 214 views | 0 comments

Royal Observatory astronomer Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder takes us on a tour of some of the best images from this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year.

Tags: Photographer , Royals

Source: www.newscientist.com

Here are the Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 185 views | 0 comments

These images of the sun, the moon and the planets of the solar system took some of the top prizes in this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

Tags: Photographer , Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

UK night skies will be among worst hit by satellite megaconstellations

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 175 views | 0 comments

From anywhere on Earth there may soon by hundreds of satellites visible in the night sky at any time of year because of satellite constellation projects such as SpaceX’s Starlink

Tags: Theresa May

Source: www.newscientist.com

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hit by 100 ‘dust devils’ on Mars

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 182 views | 0 comments

The Perseverance rover on Mars was hit by 100 dust devils in its first 90 days – the Curiosity rover elsewhere on Mars is hit by the weather phenomena 5 to 10 times less often

Tags: Beer , Fire , Mars

Source: www.newscientist.com

Astronomers may have found a moon orbiting a rogue planet with no star

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 212 views | 0 comments

Exomoons are notoriously hard to spot, but it may be easier around free-floating planets that don't orbit stars – and a team of astronomers may have already found one

Tags: Mel B. , Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

SpaceX is about to send the first ever all-amateur mission into orbit

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 376 views | 0 comments

SpaceX’s Inspiration4 launch, planned for 15 September, will mark the first time a flight into orbit has been crewed exclusively by people who are not professional astronauts

Tags: Beer , Fire , Mars

Source: www.newscientist.com

Astronauts could use their blood and urine to make Martian concrete

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 195 views | 0 comments

Mixing materials extracted from their own blood and urine with native Martian soil could let astronauts produce a type of concrete for building a colony

Tags: NATO

Source: www.newscientist.com

Planet-eating stars can be identified by their telltale chemistry

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 204 views | 0 comments

Stars that have eaten their planets aren't promising places to look for alien life, and now there is a technique that can help quickly identify such stars from their chemistry

Tags: Planes

Source: www.newscientist.com

Black holes just got much more complicated thanks to quantum pressure

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 228 views | 0 comments

Black holes were once thought not to have pressure, but a new set of quantum calculations has found that they may have some at their edges, which was completely unexpected

Source: www.newscientist.com

Now is the perfect time to spot Neptune and Uranus

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 213 views | 0 comments

It will soon be a good time to spot Neptune and Uranus, thanks to opportune positions in their orbits, says Abigail Beall

Source: www.newscientist.com

We have spotted a new kind of supernova triggered by cosmic collisions

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 198 views | 0 comments

When a neutron star or a black hole ploughs through a massive star, it can force the star to explode in a type of supernova that has now been observed for the first time

Tags: Beer , Fire , Neutrons

Source: www.newscientist.com

Should we ban space weapons to stop the huge space junk problem?

Added: 08.11.2021 22:20 | 201 views | 0 comments

A group of experts are calling for a ban on anti-satellite weapons tests because the debris they could create may threaten other satellites or even make parts of Earth’s orbit unusable

Source: www.newscientist.com

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