CU Boulder Assistant Professor Ann-Marie Madigan and a team of researchers have offered up a new theory for the existence of planetary oddities like Sedna—an icy minor planet that circles the sun at a distance of nearly 8 billion miles. Scientists have struggled to explain why Sedna and a handful of other bodies at that …
The Carnival of Space 564 is up at Nextbigcoins. Blasting News – Jeff Bezos’ Amazon has saved ‘The Expanse’ Blasting News – Alan Bean explored the moon and then told the story in paint Universe Today – What are the Chances that the Next Generation LSST Could Find New Planets in the Solar System? Nextbigfuture …
SpaceX will not launch a pair of space tourists around the moon this year as previously announced but sometime in mid-2018 or later. SpaceX expects to launch between 25 and 30 missions in 2018. SpaceX projects may launch 40 percent fewer missions in 2019. SpaceX has told NASA it is targeting the first astronaut test …
Currently, the dominant internet advertising method is intrusive banners. Apart from the user experience issues, this creates a growing problem of spam, fraud and bots infecting the banner ad networks and systems. An upcoming blockchain startup, Kind Ads will show internet users more relevant and less intrusive ads through channels like email marketing and push …
For more than a decade, eToro has been a leader in the global Fintech revolution. eToro is the world’s leading social trading network, with millions of registered users and an array of innovative trading and investment tools. eToro has plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto wallet and raised $100 million in private funding. …
Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub is the world’s leading software development platform. The era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is upon us. Computing is becoming embedded in the world, with every part of our daily life and work and every aspect of our society and economy being …
SpaceXfirst two prototype Starlink internet satellites tests are working three months after launch. Elon tweeted – TinTin A & B are both closing the link to ground w phased array at high bandwidth, low latency (25 ms). Good enough to play fast response video games. Pretty good. TinTin A & B are both closing the …
The Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the leading builder of Chinese space launch rockets, announced that its Long March (CHang Zheng in Chinese) LM-8 space rocket will launch in 2020. Above – The Long March 8, scheduled to start flying in 2020, has a completely reusable first stage, with powered descent for the …
One day large sections of desert could be turned into rice paddy fields. Chinese scientists have successfully grown and harvested rice in the deserts of Dubai after developing a strain that allows the crop to grow in saltwater. China’s “father of hybrid rice” Yuan Longping, has already grown rice in diluted sea-water and is now …
A ‘self-eating’ rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more affordably is under development at universities in Scotland and Ukraine. Engineers from the University of Glasgow and Oles Honchar Dnipro National University in Ukraine discuss how they have built, fired, and for the first time throttled up and down an …
The Carnival of Space 563 is at Everyday Spacer. Universe Today- There was Evidence for Europa’s Geysers Hiding in Plain Sight in Old Spacecraft Data From 1997 Jupiter’s moon Europa continues to fascinate and amaze! In 1979, the Voyager missions provided the first indications that an interior ocean might exist beneath it’s icy surface. Between …