This composite image is made of several exposures shot in Arizona of the Perseids meteor shower. On Friday, a rocket launched from Japan carrying satellites that will put on the world’s first artificial meteor shower. (Credit: Jeremy Perez)
Artificial Meteor Showers
A rocket blasted off from Japan on Friday, Jan. 18, carrying satellites that will deliver the first-ever artificial meteor shower.
The Tokyo-based start-up ALE Co. Ltd has developed a new micro-satellite that will put on quit ...read more
The study was conducted in a climate-regulated growth chamber in the Netherlands. (Credit:Silje Wolff, NTNU Social Research (CIRiS))
(Inside Science) — Scientists in Norway and the Netherlands may have brought us closer to workable space farms, which experts agree are necessary if astronauts are ever going to reach Mars.
“Astronauts stay on the International Space Station for six months and they can bring everything they need in either freeze-dried or vacuum packs, but the next goa ...read more
Using a new strategy, one researcher believes that he has solved the longstanding mystery of the length of a day on Saturn. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
The Time on Saturn
For years, the length of a day on Saturn has remained an unsolved puzzle to frustrated astronomers. But now, a graduate student from the University of California Santa Cruz believes that he has finally solved the mystery. Christopher Mankovich used the planet’s rings to determine that a day on Sat ...read more
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