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The Greek Scientist Whose Work Could Help Exploration of Mars
Konstantinos Giapis, a professor of chemical engineering at Caltech invented a completely new way of producing oxygen from carbon dioxide.
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NASA Creates Research Team to Study UFOs
NASA announced on Thursday it plans to assemble a team of scientists to examine "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP)—commonly termed UFOs.
The study team to be led by astrophysicist David Spergel under NASA’s Science Mission Directorate will attempt to identify what data...
Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Hit by Small Meteoroid
NASA announced on Wednesday that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on December 25, 2021, has sustained its first noticeable micrometeoroid impact.
The American space agency said, however, that neither the observatory's schedule nor its scientific legacy is expected...
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NASA Sets Sights on Exoplanet Dubbed “Hell on Earth”
NASA is planning to study a unique exoplanet with boiling oceans, melting rock, and clouds with lava rain, called "55 Cancri e."
On Thursday, NASA shared its plans to study two exoplanets with the help of the James Webb Space...
Ancient Greece
Outer Space: The Setting of Ancient Greek Myths
Our solar system was always a source of fascination for the ancient Greeks, and outer space features prominently across the scientific, philosophical, and mythological output of ancient Greek society.
Ancient Greeks referred to constellations as "katasterismoi," which translates to "placings...
Science
Scientists Grow Food Using Soil from Moon
Food has been grown in soil collected from the Moon for the first time, paving the way for human colonization of the solar system.
Scientists from the University of Florida have cultivated cress in dirt, or regolith, that had been...
Science
What a Black Hole Sounds Like? NASA Gives the Answer
NASA has released an audio of the sound emitted from a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster more than 200 million light-years away from Earth.
Perseus is known to be an 11 million-light-year-wide bundle of hundreds...
Environment
NASA Confirms Largest Comet Ever Seen
On Wednesday, NASA announced its Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers.
The estimated diameter is approximately 80 miles across, and its nucleus is about 50 times larger than that found at the...
Environment
NASA’s Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA said on Wednesday that its Hubble Space Telescope detected the farthest individual star ever seen to date that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang.
The American space agency said that the...
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NASA Astronaut Returns to Earth After Record-Breaking Stay in Space
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth on Wednesday after a record-breaking 355-day stay at the International Space Station (ISS).
His stay at the ISS marks the longest time an astronaut from the US has remained in space.
Vande Hei,...