What’s up in the sky this month? You can’t miss bright Venus in the predawn hours, Saturn at sunset, Mars in the evening and much more. Find out when and where to look up: https://go.nasa.gov/2Q8YudW
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Category: space
Unseen photos of NASA’s Apollo space missions
Early astronauts of the Apollo missions are often hailed as explorers, scientists and heroes, but they were also some of the most noteworthy photographers in history.
It includes a special foreword by Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham, and breathtaking photos taken by Apollo astronauts, many of which were previously unpublished.
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Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves
“The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called “multi-messenger” astronomy. But a team of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is calling that detection into question…”
“Andrew Jackson and his group have been saying for the past few years that LIGO’s detections are not real,” says LIGO Executive Director David Reitze of Caltech. “Their analysis has been looked at by many people who have all concluded there is absolutely no validity to their claims.” Reitze characterized the New Scientist article as “very biased and sensational.”
“Nothing they’ve done gives us any reason to doubt our results.”
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NASA Scientists Think They Can Extract Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil
Promising NASA research could make Mars missions far more realistic.
This technology will one day allow humans to live and work on Mars—and return to Earth to tell the story.
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Wanted: Researchers for China’s mega telescope to interpret signals from across the universe
Hidden in a remote mountain location is the world’s largest radio telescope which has already discovered 53 starsThe problem is finding enough astronomers to analyse the data.
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How fungus and sweat could transform Martian exploration
As a product designer imagines a Martian boot made out of human sweat and fungus, her quest sparks a new question: can biomaterials open the door for a human colony on Mars?
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Project Discovery: a simple guide
Find out how online gamers are helping scientists discover new exoplanets by playing EVE Online and taking part in Project Discovery.
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