From Around the Web

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 successfully touches down on Ryugu asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
The probe was due to fire a pellet into the surface of the asteroid to try to capture dust

By David Aragorn
SpaceX launches satellites, moon mission on Falcon 9 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Indonesian communications satellite, an Israeli lunar lander and a U.S. Air Force smallsat launched Feb. 21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

By David Aragorn
Moving artificial leaves out of the lab and into the air 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 22, 2019
Artificial leaves mimic photosynthesis — the process whereby plants use water and carbon dioxide from the air to produce carbohydrates using energy from the sun. But even state-of-the-art artificial leaves, which hold promise in reducing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, only work in the laboratory because they use pure, pressurized carbon dioxide from tanks.

By David Aragorn
We’re ‘Well On Our Way’ to Discovering Alien Life, NASA Chief Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
We may not have to wait much longer to get our first glimpse of E.T., NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said.

By David Aragorn
‘Extinct’ Galapagos tortoise found after 100 years 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 21, 2019
A species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years has been discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina, according to Ecuador’s government.

By David Aragorn
MOLTEN SNOW MOON 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 21, 2019
According to folklore, last night’s full Moon was the “Snow Moon.”

By David Aragorn
Meet Hippocamp! Neptune’s Smallest Moon Has a Name (and a Violent Past)0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
A faint and frigid little moon doesn’t have to go by “Neptune XIV” anymore.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s atmosphere stretches out to the moon – and beyond 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
The gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630,000 kilometers away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet, according to a new study based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, and published in AGU’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

By David Aragorn
SpaceShipTwo aims to reach space again 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
Virgin Galactic plans to conduct a fifth test flight Feb. 20 of its suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo.

By David Aragorn
Police share video of strange bright light shining in the sky during thunderstorm 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 20, 2019
‘After reviewing CCTV at town beach of last nights storm, it appears we were not alone’

By David Aragorn