Watch: SpaceX successfully lands rocket at sea for the first time
They did it. After several unsuccessful tries, SpaceX successfully landed its first-stage booster on an ocean platform for the first time in its first space station supply run for NASA since last year. The company also launched the first inflatable room ever built for astronauts. The unmanned Falcon rocket soared into a clear afternoon sky, carrying a full load of supplies for the International Space Station as well as its futuristic pop-up room. After sending the Dragon capsule on its way, th..>> view originalNASA's Kepler spacecraft enters emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth
NASA engineers have declared a mission emergency for the agency's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has somehow switched into emergency mode. NASA just found out about the anomaly a day and a half ago, right before the agency tried to maneuver the spacecraft to point at the center of the Milky Way for a new observation campaign. Now that a mission emergency has been declared, the Kepler team has priority access to NASA's deep space telecommunications system in order to try to get the spac..>> view originalGreat News For Wolverines, and a Lashing For US Fish and Wildlife
The wolverine––also called the mountain devil, the quickhatch, the carcajou, the skunk bear––is a cantankerous, and sometimes vicious animal about the size of a small labrador retriever. It is the largest land dweller in the weasel family, and an an odd fit to be at the vanguard in the debate of how climate change threatens animals and what should be done about it.In the lower 48 states, there are believed to be only some 300 wolverines left, and the Rocky Mountains are one of their few remaini..>> view original'Spider' on Pluto reaches icy legs across a bizarre landscape
Pluto has developed a reputation for being pretty darn strange. The basis for this is the wealth of information sent back (and still coming back) from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which buzzed the dwarf planet last year. Images and data suggest nutty features like a frozen lake, methane snow and an ice volcano. Now add an icy "spider" to that list.A NASA image shows reddish leg-like tendrils emanating across Pluto's surface and originating from a single spot. It looks like some sort of strang..>> view originalThe melting of Greenland and Antarctica is changing the Earth's rotation
Sophisticated new gravity research suggests that changes in Earth's climate may actually be having a stunning geophysical effect: slightly moving the location of the planet's spin axis, or axis of daily rotation. In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving. This, in turn, means that the physical North and South poles are actually shifting, with the North Pole now drifting towards Engl..>> view original'Outrageous Violation of the First Amendment': State AGs Take the Next Step in Going After Climate Change Skeptics
It only took a week before the warnings from free speech advocates to come to fruition about the 17 state attorneys general launching investigations into climate change skeptics, as the probe has expanded beyond an energy company to a think tank. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank in Washington, moved to quash a subpoena from the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker The Virgin Islands subpoenaed 10 years worth of communications, emails, statements, dra..>> view originalNorth Las Vegas company's space habitat rockets into orbit - Las Vegas Review
When it comes to casual Friday at the office, Bigelow Aerospace doesn’t mess around.Employees at the company’s factory in North Las Vegas got free T-shirts and a catered lunch with pizza, chicken fingers, cake and ice cream. Then they got to watch something they’ve worked on for years get shot into space.The group of about 80 workers loudly counted down the final seconds before the successful launch of an unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, into orbit..>> view originalThis is how hypothetical Planet Nine looks like
A team of European scientists have used planetary formation models and their knowledge about the hypothetical Planet Nine to know how it might look like and of what it is made of. Till date, astronomers have not been able to prove the existence of Planet Nine. But scientists believe that there is something present far beyond Pluto. Astrophysicist Christoph Mordasini from the University of Bern and his PhD Student Esther Linder, planet model specialists, has tried to find out interesting things ..>> view originalArtificial Comet Holds Key To Creating Building Blocks Of Life
French researchers showed for the first time that artificial comet ice contains ribose and other sugar molecules believed to be building blocks for RNA and DNA. Pictured above are images of the ultraviolet processing of pre-cometary ices (left) and interstellar ices observed in molecular clouds (right). (Photo : L. Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt (CNRS) / NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)) Scientific experiments are full of surprises. Just recently, researchers have shown that lab..>> view originalEarth could become hotter than thought, study warns
Global warming could make the planet far hotter than currently projected because today's scientific models do not correctly account for the influence of clouds, researchers said this week. The study in the journal Science was led by researchers at Yale University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. When climate scientists look ahead to how much the planet's surface temperature may warm up in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide -- a byproduct of fossil fuel burning -- they typically..>> view original
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