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Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars’ liquid may not all have been water (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists are rethinking a long-held belief that the liquid responsible for shaping Mars’ surface must have been water. For decades, evidence like massive outflow channels, ancient river valleys, deltas and lakebeds have suggested Mars had a watery […]
Wonky row crops and ‘possessed’ tractors: The surprising impact of solar storms on modern farming (Image Credit: Space.com) Modern-day farming is a high-tech operation highly dependent on GPS-guided tractors revolutionizing the way crops are planted, fertilized and harvested. But on May 10, 2024, that system came under attack, not from mechanical failure […]
U.S. Space Force unit in Europe navigates critical satellite operations (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. ORLANDO, Fla. — A U.S. Space Force unit based at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, serves as a pivotal coordinator of […]
Executives urge closer integration of commercial and military tech (Image Credit: Space News) Join our newsletter to get the latest military space newsevery Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. ORLANDO, Fla. — Despite recent progress, space industry executives stress the need for greater integration of commercial technology with military capabilities to […]
Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet (Image Credit: Space.com) The world’s most massive science experiment has done it again, detecting hints of the heaviest antimatter particle ever found. This means the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, has given scientists a […]
Sunny days on Mars come with a weather warning: Dust storms ahead! (Image Credit: Space.com) The weather report from Mars may soon come with a forecast for dust storms, following the discovery that, in 78% of cases, a Red Planet dust storm is preceded by an unusually high amount of solar heating. […]
Rocket Lab’s secretive launch last month was a hypersonic test for the US military (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Rocket Lab’s pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed. The mission in question lifted off on Nov. 24 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on […]
NASA tests high-tech software for future mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa (Image Credit: Space.com) Artificial intelligence is being developed to provide a robotic brain for a future NASA mission to land on the icy surface of one of the solar system’s ocean moons, such as Europa or Enceladus. […]
Cosmic rays may complicate the quest to find life on Mars (Image Credit: Space.com) On Mars, some of the most likely places to look for traces of ancient life may also be the least likely to preserve those traces. This is the result of a recent study that simulated exposing important building […]
How the ‘Great Filter’ could explain why we haven’t found intelligent aliens (Image Credit: Space.com) “Where is everybody?” That famous phrase, uttered over lunch by eminent physicist Enrico Fermi, perfectly encapsulated what has since become known as the Fermi paradox: If life happened here on Earth and the universe tends to not […]
