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CubeSats to Mars and beyond
Posted in Hardware on 6th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
All the activity and interest in CubeSats has been primarily limited to spacecraft in Earth orbit. Now engineers are exploring what CubeSats could do beyond Earth orbit.
A New study casts doubt on the Mars valley water formation theory
Posted in Science on 5th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
During the period in which the distinctive valleys supposedly formed, the Martian atmosphere may have already been too depleted to maintain the free-running water.
There are probably 1 to 10 billion earthlike planets in the Milky Way
Posted in Science on 31st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
Researchers combine constraints on galaxy formation with planet formation models, yielding the Earth-like and giant planet formation histories of the Milky Way and the Universe.
Planetoid a billion miles beyond Pluto selected as New Horizons' next destination
Posted in Science on 30th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA has selected the next potential destination for the unmanned spacecraft, a planetoid called 2014 MU69.
Comet impacts may have cooked up a 'soup of life'
Posted in Science on 20th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
New results show how collisions between comets and planets can make molecules that are the essential building blocks of life.