Pictured above: Artistic impression of how a lake on Titan would look like. According to the data gathered by NASA’s Cassini probe, the ocean on Saturn’s moon Titan (the largest of the planet’s moons) has a very high concentration of salts. The probe only gathered gravitation data and didn’t perform a full chemical analysis, obviously, but the initial data suggest that the ocean has a … [Read more...]
Earth’s Most Abundant Mineral Found in a Rock from Space, Gets A Name
Earth's most abundant mineral lies deep in the planet's interior, sealed off from human eyes. Now, scientists for the first time have got a glimpse of the material in nature, enclosed inside a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. Consequently, they have characterized and named the elusive mineral. The new official name, bridgmanite, was approved on June 2 for the mineral formerly known by its chemical … [Read more...]
2014 FIFA World Cup goes universal as astronauts wish luck to players, fans from space
The most awaited FIFA World Cup 2014 is finally here but this time it would be quite different. It seems like one of the largest international sporting events in the world has made its way to the space. It’s not the Earth dwellers who are waiting for the game with bated breath but the soccer crazies from 230 miles above our planet is part of the countdown. The FIFA world cup has begun on … [Read more...]
Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning traveling to Mars
Mars One's plans to send volunteers to the Red Planet on a one-way mission have faced a setback by a fatwa committee. The committee of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the United Arab Emirates has prohibited Muslims from taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet. The Mars One, a Dutch nonprofit announced to send four people to a Martian habitat by 2024, … [Read more...]
NASA’s lunar probe beams back first photos to earth
NASA’s newest lunar probe, Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was launched in September. Last week for the first time LADEE has beamed the view of lunar surface back to earth. LADEE provided new moon photos. The images show stars and pockmarked lunar and were released by NASA on February, 13 to ground controllers on the earth. Wide-angle photos were taken by LADEE’s star … [Read more...]
Universe’s early galaxies spread out and grow through collisions
Scientists have been inquisitive about enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, approx. 3 billion years after the Big Bang. By arraying NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, the mystery surrounding the evolution of compact elliptical galaxies, have been solved. Now new research from the … [Read more...]
