Space and astronomy news
In a recent study submitted to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for the 8th Interstellar Symposium special issue, which is due for publication sometime in 2024, Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, who is a senior research investigator and the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, examines how future …
Owning land here on Earth is nice and legal. But what about a plot of land on the Moon or Mars? When can I buy some ice on Europa?
The idea of Moon mining has been around for decades, and is becoming more attractive thanks to the NewSpace industry and renewed lunar exploration
Despite the vagaries of international law, no matter what a slick business person tells you, there is no land for sale on the Moon. NONE!
Curiosity at Centre of Attention During Testing Image Credit: NASA /JPL – Caltech There have been many reports about the possibility of NASA’s Curiosity rover contaminating Mars with microbes from Earth once it lands on the Red Planet in August. The wheels, the landing procedure and the drill bits have all come under scrutiny. But …
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With asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close by Earth yesterday, this rather unsettlingly near flyby has many people wondering if we would be able to divert an asteroid that was heading for an intersection with Earth in its orbit. Of course, as natural disasters go, an asteroid strike on Earth would be extremely bad. Even relatively …
Here’s your space photo for the day. It’s an image of galaxy NGC 253, captured by Strongmanmike. This is just one of a series of new images released by Mike. I briefly mentioned that one of the latest batch of astronauts headed to the International Space Station is Malaysia’s Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. As a Muslim, …