tweetleaks @ 12:37 PM on September 3, 2010
A new look at data from the Mars Phoenix mission suggests that Viking landers may have found the building blocks of life on the Red Planet after all way back in 1976. The surprise discovery of perchlorates by Phoenix could means the way the Viking experiment was set up actually would have destroyed any carbon-based [...]
tweetleaks @ 12:07 PM on September 3, 2010
NASA scientists, instruments and spacecraft are busy studying Hurricane Earl from both the air and space, and an unmanned aircraft actually flew inside the giant storm. Above is a satellite image from NASA’s Terra satellite, and below is an image taken by one of the astronauts on board the International Space Station, Doug Wheelock. Three [...]
tweetleaks @ 11:17 AM on September 3, 2010
This summer, the New Horizons spacecraft was awoken for its annual systems checkout, and took the opportunity to exercise the long range camera by snapping pictures of Neptune, which at the time, was 3.5 billion km (2.15 billion miles) away. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped several photos of the gas giant, but Neptune [...]
tweetleaks @ 10:57 AM on September 3, 2010
The math is simple: Star + Other star = Bigger star. While conceptually this works well, it fails to take into account the extremely vast distances between stars. Even in clusters, where the density of stars is significantly higher than in the main disk, the number of stars per unit volume is so low that [...]
tweetleaks @ 3:00 AM on September 3, 2010
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island, one of a number of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, located 1,600km (1,000 miles) from the coast of Africa and 2,250km (1,400 miles) from South America was a barren volcanic…
tweetleaks @ 2:48 AM on September 3, 2010
In “The Grand Design,” Stephen Hawking and Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow suggest that physics and metaphysics (and religion) are merging. The grand design which we have taken for granted since Newton is more complex than anything we ever dreamed o…
tweetleaks @ 2:14 AM on September 3, 2010
“We’ll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island.” Frank Fenner, virologist Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overp…
tweetleaks @ 2:10 AM on September 3, 2010
A new geologic map of the moon’s Schrodinger basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of the lunar surface after a huge object struck the moon, revealing a patchwork of material, including the peak ring (inner brown ring), recent volcanic a…
tweetleaks @ 2:08 AM on September 3, 2010
Yet another UFO sighting has been reported in Eastern China on August 31st in the southwestern Haiyan County of Zhejiang Province. The object sightedwas very bright, according to eyewitnesses. It was visible for at least three hours. It drew the…
tweetleaks @ 6:05 PM on September 2, 2010
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomenon astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive explosions and a large amount of the energy if focused into narrow beams that sweep across the universe. These beams are so tightly concentrated that they can be seen across the visible universe and allow astronomers [...]
