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10/09/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA scientists discuss the feasibility of humans colonizing Mars

A recent study released by NASA-sponsored researchers has removed the luster from one of the crown jewels of science fiction and popular science, an article in News Wise stated. The study reported that while Mars can be explored and colonized by human astronauts, the Red Planet cannot be terraformed into a habitable state, at least not with our […]

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 […]

06/01/2018 / 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 […]

05/21/2018 / By David Williams

The moon has plenty of water, according to new study

Astronomers and experts in other fields have been studying the moon closely for several decades now. Now a new study, which was published in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows that previous assumptions about the water content of the moon may be flat-out wrong. Instead of having water in certain regions or types of terrains, the […]

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