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08/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

IAC researcher proposes a new technomarker to detect alien civilizations

A Spanish researcher made an argument that the search for intelligent alien life should concentrate on looking for signs of a “Clarke Exobelt,” a densely populated belt of artificial satellites surrounding the home planet of a hypothetical advanced alien civilization. In his recently published paper, he believed that this technological marker could be spotted by […]

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 […]

06/11/2018 / By David Williams

Phoning home from space: NASA’s Deep Space Network makes it possible

Have you ever wondered how exactly the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) manages to retrieve all of the data and information it gathers in space through its various probes, satellites, orbiters, and rovers? If you guessed that it uses one of the most advanced and most sophisticated communication systems ever devised, you guessed right. […]

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 Frances Bloomfield

Study of microbes from extreme habitats may aid search for life on Mars

Deserts are among the most inhospitable places on Earth. Yet, nestled under sun-soaked, rocky valleys, life exists. These minute, photosynthetic organisms are known as hypolithic cyanobacteria or simply hypoliths, and they’ve managed to survive in the most unwelcoming of places. This uncanny ability to shrug off conditions that would doom most animals and plants isn’t […]

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 […]

11/28/2016 / By spacenews

NASA conducts second round of fire experiments in space

Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft has begun making its way back from the ISS with fiery cargo on board. NASA has conducted its second space fire experiment aboard the Cygnus, burning nine different materials to give scientists the data they need to compare their flammability in microgravity to their flammability here on Earth. Those materials include […]

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