by David Todd | Jan 22, 2016 | Science
While there have long been suggestions that their may be a mysterious Planet X at the outer reaches of our solar system, scientists and astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that they have discovered indirect proof that it is there....
by David Todd | Jan 22, 2016 | International Space Station, NASA, Science, Seradata News
International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Scott Kelly was apparently thrilled to tweet an image of a successfully grown Xinnia flower blooming in orbit. However, his claim that was the first ever flower grown in space was soon shown not to be correct. In fact,...
by David Todd | Jan 19, 2016 | History, Science
There is good news for those “flat Earthers” who still think the Earth is flat (yes – bizarrely they still exist), or for those that hold to creationist views winning over evolution, or for those who still believe that the Inquisition was right...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Science
The little German-designed Philae minilab lander, which stole the headlines in November 2014 when it made a bouncing landing onto the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is thought to have died of “hypothermia”. The lander, which originally cadged a lift to...
by David Todd | Jan 4, 2016 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The Atlas V launch of the NASA Mars InSight (INSIGHT – INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and HeatTransport) mission has been delayed by two years from its planned March 2016 launch date due to a leak in the vacuum-sealed titanium...
by David Todd | Jan 4, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, NASA, Science
ESA (The European Space Agency) and Arianespace formally announced on 17 December 2015 that the launch services contract for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) had been signed. The spacecraft will be orbited by an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from the Guiana Space...
