Space

Daring Mars mission to send rocks back to Earth in hunt for past life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2019
Europe poised to join US in complex plan to find evidence of fossil microbes on red planet

By David Aragorn
What Has the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Taught Us So Far?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 25, 2019
As Enrico Fermi famously once said, “Where is everybody”?” These words were uttered in the summer of 1950 when the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) was heating up. They also captured the frustrations and unresolved questions surrounding the existence of extraterrestrial life.

By David Aragorn
The Last Galactic Year Has Taken Us From the Jurassic Period to Today 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2019
The last time we were in this position in the Milky Way, dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the Earth.

By David Aragorn
Big star energy: record-breaking explosion recorded 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2019
Astronomers note record-breaking observation of highest energy ever measured from gamma ray bursts

By David Aragorn
Extraterrestrial Sugar Found in Space Rocks Show that Meteorites May Have Led to Origin of Life on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s adorable underwater rover might be the first to discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.

By David Aragorn
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie “song” that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.

By David Aragorn
How to watch over 400 meteors shoot through the sky for an hour Thursday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
The night sky could light up with hundreds of shooting stars for an hour on Thursday thanks to a spectacular celestial event.

By David Aragorn
Advocates promote planetary defense mission ahead of ESA ministerial 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.

By David Aragorn