Today I got the chance to write for Universe Today about a new study in the journal Science. The gist of the study is that astronomers have seen, for the first time, confirmation that massive stars — around nine times or more the mass of our sun — die in massive supernova explosions. This is [...]
Sure, NASA lost a lot of money when its Orbiting Carbon Observatory took a nosedive into the ocean — around $250 million (because $30 million of ts $278 million budget hadn’t been spent yet).
But what about the science?
NASA is thinking about that too. The agency is going through a muddy era that mirrors, at least [...]
NASA’s Kepler mission lifted off without a hitch just before 11 p.m. Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The launch was a bit of a nail-biter, coming on the heels of last week’s failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which plummeted (all $270 million of it) into the ocean when its casing malfunctioned. But everything for [...]
Well, that was about the saddest news briefing I’ve ever seen.
At a hastily-arranged press conference, three NASA officials spoke on NASA TV this morning about the failed launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a satellite that was supposed to fill in some missing links about the role of human-emitted carbon in climate change.
Undoubtedly, the NASA [...]
This afternoon, I wrote a post for Universe Today about Jay Melosh, a planetary scientist from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Melosh has an interesting idea about how life could have developed on Earth — after being flung from the surface of Mars along with impact ejecta.
And when I went back to check the post [...]
