Space technology startup TeamIndus announces Lab2Moon competition
The space technology startup TeamIndus has announced the launch of Lab2Moon, a competition to challenge young minds across the globe to think beyond our planet and create an experiment to fly on board the TeamIndus spacecraft to the Moon in 2017. TeamIndus is the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, and with Read More
Astronomers Can’t Explain How These Trillion-Degree Quasars Got So Hot
Astrophysicists have spotted a faraway object that’s hotter than any contemporary theory can explain, a discovery that might require scientists rewriting galaxy operation manuals for years to come. The first fruits of these mind-boggling observations were just published by an international group of scientists led by the Russian astrophysicist Yuri Kovalev in the journal Astrophysical Read More
These ‘Chipsats’ Could Help Us Find Aliens on Alpha Centauri
Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Starshot initiative wants to send an army of small probes out to Alpha Centauri — at one-fifth the speed of light, no less — to look for aliens and exoplanet habitability. (Article by Neel V. Patel) There are at least five big questions as to how they’ll actually get Read More
