Stress of Space Travel Can Reactivate Dormant Viruses in Astronauts
Staying in space causes significant stress and affects health. However, these bodily changes can also benefit illegal travelers: dormant viruses, hidden in the cells of our body, jump at the chance to reactivate and spread. Becoming an astronaut is a career choice that exposes you to…
Evidence of Changing Seasons, Rain on Titan’s North Pole
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft observations provide tangible evidence of precipitation at the North Pole of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. According to Rajani Dhingra and his colleagues at the University of Idaho, this precipitation would be an indication of the beginning of the summer season in the…
Imminent arrival of InSight probe on Mars
On Sunday, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angelewas preparing, to make the final course adjustments to maneuver the landing gear and allow it to land on Monday on the red planet. If all goes according to plan, InSight, which completes a journey…
Mars, Earth, and Sun Align Today, April 8
To most people, an opposition is a condition, circumstance, or entity that stands betwixt a person and their objective. However, in the field of astronomy it refers to an interplanetary alignment that results in celestial bodies being in straight line drawn between two bodies at…