April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
...the early 1970s in his discussion on the Ram-Augmented Interstellar Rocket; a craft where the reaction mass is carried ... developing advanced propulsion technologies for solar system and interstellar missions. He has been active in the development ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... is that they have the same origin as us (i.e., born by the same abiogenesis event), and they (or we) traversed interstellar space on meteorites. The second possibility is that they originate from a different abiogenesis event, and in this case ...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... primarily using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia as part of the Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey, this puzzle is one step closer to being solved. “It's the first molecule detected in space that...
29 August 2016
Dust is the key to producing complex organic molecules in space
...the simplest sugar alcohol, have both been detected in the interstellar medium (ISM); but how did they get there? Did... or were they produced via reactions on the surface of interstellar dust grains? Using the Green Bank Telescope, the IRAM 30m...
09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
...showed that the molecule can be formed at extremely cold interstellar temperatures, down to 15 Kelvin (–258 degrees Celsius), ...under very cold conditions that are similar to those in interstellar space. This implies that this molecule, and thus the ...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... known as IRAS 16293-2422. While the new ALMA observation is the first detection ever of a stable organohalogen in interstellar space, it simultaneously dashes hopes that its presence points to potential signs of life beyond our planet. On Earth...
