Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona ARIZONA–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2016. This image shows spidery channels eroded into Martian ground. It is an example from high-resolution observation of more than 20 places that were chosen in 2016 on the basis of about 10,000 volunteers’ examination of lower-resolution images of larger areas near Mars’[Read More…]
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Teleporting Toward a Quantum Internet
This image shows crystals used for storing entangled photons, which behave as though they are part of the same whole. Scientists use crystals like these in quantum teleportation experiments. Credits: Félix Bussières/University of Geneva CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2016. Quantum physics is a field that appears to give scientists superpowers. Those who[Read More…]
White House Fact Sheet: Harnessing the Possibilities of Science, Technology, and Innovation
President Obama Hosts Frontiers Conference, Focusing on the Potential of Science, Technology, and Innovation to Drive Prosperity and Address Challenges in Personal, Local, National, Global, and Interplanetary Frontiers for the Next 50 Years and Beyond President Barack Obama looks at the moon through a telescope while talking with student Agatha[Read More…]
Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality
Mars. Source: NASA Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2016 By: John Holdren and Charles Bolden Today, President Obama outlined a vision to CNN for the future of space exploration. Echoing what he said in the 2015 State of the Union address, the President wrote, “We have set a clear goal vital to[Read More…]
DePaul University Researchers Describe New Large Prehistoric Shark
The new shark species named ‘paradoxodon,’ or paradoxical teeth, comes from the fact that the shark appears to have emerged suddenly in the geologic record with a yet unresolved nearly 45-million-year gap from when Megalolamna possibly split from its closest relative Otodus. The international research team who based their discovery[Read More…]
Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft
The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard the Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft captured this image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016, from an altitude of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) above the surface during the spacecraft’s controlled descent. The image scale is about 12 inches (30 centimeters) per pixel and[Read More…]
Farewell Rosetta: ESA Mission to Conclude on Comet’s Surface
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–September 29, 2016 This view shows Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as seen by the OSIRIS wide-angle camera on ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft on September 29, 2016, when Rosetta was at an altitude of 14 miles (23 kilometers). Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission will come to[Read More…]
Scientists’ Finding Supports Moon Creation Hypothesis
Johns Hopkins researchers claim Earth layer remains from “giant impact” Baltimore, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016. New research led by Johns Hopkins University scientists argues that a layer of iron and other elements deep under ground is the evidence scientists have long been seeking to support the hypothesis that the moon was[Read More…]
The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All
It’s small, it’s hot, and it’s shrinking. Surprising new NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/USGS/Arizona State University Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2016. It’s small, it’s hot, and it’s shrinking. New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is[Read More…]
Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Two’s company, but three might not always be a crowd — at least in space, where a planet may circle two stars. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and a trick of nature, have confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located 8,000 light-years away[Read More…]
