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06/27/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The search for life on Mars by the ESA reaches important milestone as ExoMars Rover prepares for its “shake and bake”

The prototype of the ExoMars Rover is being prepared for vibration and temperature tests in France. The upcoming “shake and bake” test is a big step for the European Space Agency’s mission to seek out any form of life on Mars, an article on Reuters states. The Structural Thermal Model was recently completed in Stevenage, a town […]

06/21/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The radical plan to design a starship out of hollowed out asteroids

Dutch-based researchers have a radical plan for any near-Earth asteroid that can be hollowed out by asteroid miners. They are going to turn it into a huge starship that can travel between stars, an article in the Daily Mail states. This generational ship would be big enough to hold entire generations of crew and passengers […]

06/15/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Lunar meteorite hints at the moon having water, once upon a time

A Japanese study reported that it found a mineral in a lunar meteorite that requires water in order to form. This discovery has led researchers to theorize that Earth’s satellite used to have liquid water, an article in Space.com states. Furthermore, the researchers believe the moon may contain underground pockets of water ice. Astronauts might […]

06/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Could the new type of food for astronauts be made from zooplankton? Biologists seem to think so

Provisions are among the biggest challenges for manned spaceflight missions. Food must not take up so much space or weight that the spacecraft’s performance suffers. In an Alpha Galileo article, therefore, German researchers suggested that spacecraft should carry zooplankton as a lightweight source of essential nutrients for astronauts. One potential candidate is the water flea (Daphnia), […]

06/12/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA thinking about performing a flight test of a nuclear reactor to the moon by the mid-2020s

Now that NASA has finished testing its new nuclear reactor on the ground, it is aiming its sights a lot higher. The space agency is considering fitting the Kilopower system onto a moon-bound lander for its first flight test in the middle of the 2020s, an article in Space News states. In a recent press conference, NASA officials […]

06/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Alien life may exist in Jupiter’s moon Europa and other frozen worlds

The ice cap of frozen worlds – like the Jovian moon Europa – could be concealing alien life. In a Space.com article, new research suggests that heat from the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of global oceans could be reacting with oxidants that penetrate the ice sheet, there providing the conditions for life in these […]

06/05/2018 / By Edsel Cook

A giant impact on Mars that happened billions of years ago explains why the Red Planet is filled with iron

The mantles of Earth and Mars boast a lot of iron and “iron-loving” metals, more than what should be present from planetary formation. In a Space.com article, a new study suggests that these metallic bounties resulted from the impacts of giant space rocks in the distant past. Planets start out as tiny grains of cosmic dust […]

06/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Astronomers plan to intercept and collect debris from the next interstellar object to visit the solar system after asteroid ‘Oumuamua

Even as the very first interstellar visitor to our solar system bids us farewell, astronomers are already planning a warmer welcome for the next such guest. According to a Space.com article, the next asteroid to go our way will be met by a spacecraft that will shoot it and collect the resulting debris for analysis. […]

06/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

A dark hole planet? Astronomers find a “Hot Jupiter” that absorbs almost all light that hits it

One of the more recently discovered exoplanets is a rather special one. A U.K. study reported that WASP-104b gobbles up almost all the light that strikes its haze-covered surface. This dark hole of a planet is called a “hot Jupiter,” a Science Alert article states. Hot Jupiters are a type of gas giant that have […]

05/29/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA to award first contract for its lunar “Gateway” program by early 2019

NASA is making significant headway in its plan to return humans to the Moon. In a Bloomberg report, the space agency will issue the initial contract for its lunar “Gateway” program in 2019. “Gateway” is the nickname of the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, the planned space station that NASA will use to study the moon and the conditions […]

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