Canada to deny entry to foreigners who were recently in DR Congo, against U.N. advice
The Canadian government said Sunday it would deny entry to any foreigner who has been to the Democratic…
Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68 kilobytes of memory between them — less storage than a single compressed photograph on a modern phone
Voyager 1 carries six flight-computer units designed in the early 1970s, and NASA’s own accounting puts their combined…
Across Titan’s equator, winds have built dunes around 100 metres high and hundreds of kilometres long — but the grains are water ice coated in hydrocarbons that fell out of the moon’s orange atmosphere
Cassini’s radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan’s equatorial regions. Individual ridges are commonly one…
Dunedin’s stars shine a light on good tourism opportunities
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A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star has been discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing an exoplanet and a red dwarf. Astronomers have discovered a…
Rocket Lab’s Latest Deal Puts It on a Collision Course With SpaceX
The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…
Have Scientists Built a Cell from Scratch?
According to recent news headlines, the curiously named SpudCell can feed, grow, reproduce, and undergo selection. These are…
Earth: Earth has regulated its climate for 60 million years through a hidden ocean feedback; the key was sea level and one essential nutrient
Earth’s natural system keep its climate from being too hot or too cold. (Representational photo_ Earth has gone…
World’s First Superconducting Quantum Heat Engine Could Transform Quantum Computing
Artistic impression of a superconducting quantum heat engine. Credit: Heikka Valja / Aalto University A machine smaller than…
DNA from 457 koalas suggests the species nearly went extinct 100,000 years ago, before humans reached Australia
Koalas nearly went extinct before humans arrived, DNA study reveals A major genetic study has found that koalas…
By eye and telescope: Bahrain’s enduring bond with the Moon | THE DAILY TRIBUNE
Long before satellites and space agencies, Bahrainis were already looking to the Moon, just for a different reason.…
In 1980, Voyager 1 flew close enough to Titan to reveal its thick nitrogen atmosphere — but the gravity-assist geometry bent the spacecraft permanently out of the planetary plane, trading Uranus and Neptune for one close look at Saturn’s largest moon
On 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 passed 6,490 kilometres from Titan’s centre, about 3,900 kilometres above the moon’s…