NASA Invests In New Solar Sail That Bends Light To Control Spacecrafts’ Direction
NASA is looking at a new approach to solar sails. They intend to address the main disadvantage of present sails, which is their lack of…
Astronomy
HD 42618 b – a Neptune-like Exoplanet
HD 42618 b is an exoplanet that resembles Neptune and orbits a G-type star. It is an extrasolar planet (exoplanet) that orbits the star HD…
InSight Sends Final Selfie as It Gets Ready To Bid Farewell
InSight, NASA’s spacecraft, is nearing the conclusion of its mission. The project’s manager, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently stated that the industrious lander does not…
China’s Zhurong Rover Enters Hybernation to Survive Tough Martian Winter
Zhurong, the China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) Mars rover, has been investigating the Red Planet’s surface for well over a year – an incredible achievement…
A “Mirror World” Of Particles within Our Universe May Explain Puzzling Cosmological Find
Under strange data, the standard model of cosmology, the theory that describes the world at enormous scales, is buckling. Distinct measurements of the Hubble Constant,…
Asteroid A Mile Wide (Or 405 Komodo Dragons) Set To Whizz By Earth Tomorrow. Here’s How to Watch
According to NASA, the biggest asteroid of the year, asteroid 7335 (1989 JA), will sail past Earth on Friday, May 27. This rocky space rock…
HD 42618 – a well-studied Star
HD 42618 is a well-studied star in the equatorial constellation of Orion with an exoplanetary companion. The star is approximately 76.6 light-years (23.5 pc) away…
HD 19467 B – a Brown Dwarf Exoplanet
HD 19467 B is a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 19467 in the constellation Eridanus about 101 light-years away. It…
Crypto and NFT Conference Has To Make Special Adjustments to the Toilet Situation
In order to accommodate to their particular demographic of clients, a cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) conference has supposedly had to make specific adaptations to…
HATS-11b – a Confirmed Exoplanet
HATS-11 b is a gas giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of an F-type star. It was discovered in 2016 as a confirmed exoplanet, or…
Moon Changes Show Evidence of Solar-Driven Change, According to Planetary Scientists
Scientists are attempting to determine why there are tiny iron nanoparticles practically everywhere on the Moon that are not naturally occurring on Earth. The Department…
Solar Flare Risk to Planes is Real, but not Worth Expensive Mitigation
“Don’t fly too close to the sun,” said Daedalus to Icarus. Wax in his wings would melt if he flew too high, and drag would…
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