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Elon Musk’s Starship may be more moral catastrophe than bold step in space exploration

HeritageDailyOctober 2, 2019

by HeritageDailyOctober 2, 20190371

Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed to carry up to 100 crew members on interplanetary journeys

Space & Planetary

Could Venus have been habitable?

HeritageDailySeptember 20, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 20, 20190373

Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until a dramatic transformation starting over 700 million years ago resurfaced

Space & Planetary

Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone

HeritageDailySeptember 12, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 12, 20190184

An international study lead by Université de Montréal astronomer Björn Benneke has detected water vapour on the planet K2-18b. This represents a major discovery in

Space & Planetary

And then there was light: Looking for the first stars in the universe

HeritageDailySeptember 9, 2019

by HeritageDailySeptember 9, 20190276

Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life

Space & Planetary

Dead planets can ‘broadcast’ for up to a billion years

HeritageDailyAugust 6, 2019

by HeritageDailyAugust 6, 20190743

Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by ‘tuning in’ to the radio waves that they emit.

Space & Planetary

Continuing the Apollo legacy

HeritageDailyJuly 29, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 29, 20190279

A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to

Archaeology Space & Planetary

We need to protect the heritage of the Apollo missions

HeritageDailyJuly 22, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 22, 20190337

It’s 50 years since the two Apollo 11 astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – spent 22 hours collecting samples, deploying experiments and sometimes

Space & Planetary

‘Moon-forming’ circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system

HeritageDailyJuly 12, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 12, 20190318

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding belt of dust and gas that

Space & Planetary

Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course

HeritageDailyJuly 10, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 10, 20190448

Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision.

Space & Planetary

Black hole brings down curtain on jellyfish galaxy’s star turn

HeritageDailyJuly 3, 2019

by HeritageDailyJuly 3, 20190356

The role of an excited black hole in the death of an exotic ‘jellyfish’ galaxy will be presented today (3 July) by Callum Bellhouse of

Space & Planetary

‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals

HeritageDailyJune 25, 2019

by HeritageDailyJune 25, 20190312

The frigid lakeshores of Saturn's moon Titan might be encrusted with strange, unearthly minerals, according to new research being presented here.

Space & Planetary

NASA scientists find sun’s history buried in moon’s crust

HeritageDailyJune 18, 2019

by HeritageDailyJune 18, 20190334

The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not.

Space & Planetary

Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater

HeritageDailyJune 11, 2019

by HeritageDailyJune 11, 201902790

A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system -- the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin -- and

Space & Planetary

Astronomers determine mass of small black hole at center of nearby galaxy

HeritageDailyJune 11, 2019

by HeritageDailyJune 11, 20190293

If astronomers want to learn about how supermassive black holes form, they have to start small--really small, astronomically speaking.

Space & Planetary

The ‘forbidden’ planet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

HeritageDailyMay 30, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 30, 20190539

An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered in the Neptunian Desert, by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University

Space & Planetary

Researchers wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk upright

HeritageDailyMay 28, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 28, 20190744

Did ancient supernovae induce proto-humans to walk on two legs, eventually resulting in homo sapiens with hands free to build cathedrals, design rockets and snap

Space & Planetary

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest places

HeritageDailyMay 24, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 24, 201903176

Earth is bombarded every year by rocky debris, but the rate of incoming meteorites can change over time. Finding enough meteorites scattered on the planet's

Space & Planetary

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth’s water

HeritageDailyMay 23, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 23, 20190353

Where did the Earth’s water come from? Although comets, with their icy nuclei, seem like ideal candidates, analyses have so far shown that their water

Space & Planetary

Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris

HeritageDailyMay 22, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 22, 20190289

Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris outside our solar

Space & Planetary

Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

HeritageDailyMay 22, 2019May 22, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 22, 2019May 22, 20190317

The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon,

Space & Planetary

The moon is still geologically active, study suggests

HeritageDailyMay 13, 2019May 13, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 13, 2019May 13, 20190494

We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity died out billions

Space & Planetary

The analysis of a meteorite reveals secrets about the birth of the Solar System

HeritageDailyMay 13, 2019

by HeritageDailyMay 13, 20190408

The study has been carried out by an international team of cosmochemists and astrophysicists, including researcher Jordi José, from the Institute of Space Studies of

Category : Space & Planetary

Elon Musk’s Starship may be more moral catastrophe than bold step in space exploration

Could Venus have been habitable?

Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone

And then there was light: Looking for the first stars in the universe

Dead planets can ‘broadcast’ for up to a billion years

Continuing the Apollo legacy

We need to protect the heritage of the Apollo missions

‘Moon-forming’ circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system

Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course

Black hole brings down curtain on jellyfish galaxy’s star turn

‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals

NASA scientists find sun’s history buried in moon’s crust

Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater

Astronomers determine mass of small black hole at center of nearby galaxy

The ‘forbidden’ planet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

Researchers wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk upright

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest places

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth’s water

Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris

Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

The moon is still geologically active, study suggests

The analysis of a meteorite reveals secrets about the birth of the Solar System

Roman Sex, Sexuality, Slaves and Lex Scantinia

Was Cleopatra beautiful? The archaeological evidence

Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

Half the population of the Viking-town Sigtuna were migrants

Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway

The largest ever Bronze Age hoard in London has been discovered

Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old street in Jerusalem built by Pontius Pilate

Lost in combat?

DNA study sheds new light on the people of the Neolithic battle...

Preserving old bones with modern technology

Teeth offer vital clues about diet during the Great Irish Famine

Did a common childhood illness take down the Neanderthals?

Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution

A face for Lucy’s ancestor