News & Articles By Edsel Cook
12/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook
Space flight milestone: Next-gen ion engine may one day send Americans to Mars
In a few more years, American astronauts will return to the Moon. Not long afterwards, they will embark on the very first manned journey to Mars. Their future spacecraft will be propelled by a new generation of ion engines, the prototype of which has just passed an important test. In a New Atlas article, aerospace […]
12/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook
Strongest known material in the universe found in the crust of neutron stars
Deep beneath the surface of immensely dense neutron stars lie what is perhaps the strongest matter known to science. It also happens to be named after one of the most well-known and tasty foods in Italian cuisine, an article in Science Daily reported. This material is called “nuclear pasta.” Despite the name that combines radioactive horror […]
12/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook
A trip to Mars would heavily irradiate astronauts with potentially deadly doses of cosmic radiation
Dr. McCoy of Star Trek once described space as disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence. The fictional character is now being echoed by Bulgarian researchers, who claim that manned deep-space missions to Mars will face extreme dangers far greater than those encountered by the Apollo missions. The researchers based their claims on the […]
11/30/2018 / By Edsel Cook
Cassini mission reveals another giant, mysterious vortex on Saturn’s northern pole
As Earth enters its winter season, the northern pole of Saturn is preparing for summer. The gas giant signaled this by revealing a hexagonal vortex of increasingly hot air at the upper reaches of its skies. An article in Science Daily compared this new feature to an earlier and similar weather formation located on the […]
11/27/2018 / By Edsel Cook
Does Planet Nine really exist? Astronomers say that a ghost planet is hiding in the depths of our solar system
A Quanta Magazine article brought up further evidence that our solar system could be harboring a ninth planet somewhere beyond Pluto. In the new astronomical study, researchers found a potential dwarf planet called 2015 BP519 in a very unnatural orbit. The orbital mechanics matched up with a prediction made by the California-based researchers who championed the […]
11/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook
What happens when galaxies collide? NASA studies the small, dense corpses left after a stellar explosion
Long after we are gone, our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into the Andromeda Galaxy, forever changing the faces of both galaxies. Today, NASA researchers are studying the aftermath of a similar galactic collision to help predict what is going to happen to our galaxy in that distant future, an article in LiveScience stated. The […]
11/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook
The hottest known exoplanet found to have skies made out of iron and titanium
The atmosphere on Earth is made up of a mix of oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases that sustain life. The skies of the distant extrasolar planet KELT-9b, however, are hotter than the typical star and filled with iron and titanium, an article on Scientific American reported. KELT-9b is the sole known planet of the KELT-9 […]
11/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook
ESA researchers look at lunar dust as a potential raw material for constructing future manned outposts on the moon
It is almost always much cheaper and easier to make something using locally-available construction materials. That is why European researchers are testing the use of the space dust covering the surface of the Moon to build long-term structures on our planet’s satellite, an article in New Atlas reported. They came to this conclusion after experimenting […]
11/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook
A new galaxy cluster has been discovered hiding in plain sight
Researchers have discovered an entire cluster of galaxies in one of the last locations anyone would have thought to check. The previously-unseen cluster was hiding within the blinding light of the quasar at its center, an article in Science Daily stated. A quasar is a supermassive black hole that gives off a lot of light. […]
10/31/2018 / By Edsel Cook
The hottest alien world ever discovered: Exoplanet so hot, iron and titanium glow in it
KELT-9b is a hot find in more ways than one. Not only is this exoplanet hotter than any other planet and many stars, its atmosphere is also the first to show the presence of both iron and titanium, an article in Space.com reported. This unique alien world dwells within the constellation Cygnus. The light reflected […]
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