Space

Water Detected in Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov 2
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2019
Astronomers have detected the signature of vaporized water in the coma of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, also known as C/2019 Q4.

By David Aragorn
The Taurid Meteor Shower Is Bringing Shooting Stars and Fireballs to the Night Sky This Week 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2019
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the start of autumn means a few things: chillier days, longer nights, and lots of shooting stars.

By David Aragorn
NASA probe provides insight on solar system’s border with interstellar space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2019
The journey of NASA’s dauntless Voyager 2 spacecraft through our solar system’s farthest reaches has given scientists new insight into a poorly understood distant frontier: the unexpectedly distinct boundary marking where the sun’s energetic influence ends and interstellar space begins.

By David Aragorn
Miniature Black Hole Surprises Astronomers: It Shouldn’t Exist.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 2, 2019
Generally speaking, black holes are the corpse of a dead star. But not all stars become black holes at the end of their life – for instance, our familiar Sun is small enough to avoid that fate.

By David Aragorn
Czech lab grows mustard plants for Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 2, 2019
Czech scientists have opened a lab to experiment growing food for environments with extreme conditions and lack of water, such as Mars.

By David Aragorn
Planetary Researchers Analyze Structure of Giant Martian Landslide 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 1, 2019
Unusually large and long ridges documented in massive landslides across our Solar System are commonly associated with the presence of ancient ice layers. To better understand how these features formed, an international team of planetary scientists analyzed 3D images of an extensive landslide in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. Their findings show the unique structures could have formed at high speeds of up to 224 mph (360 kmh) due to underlying layers of fragmented rocks; this challenges the idea that underlying layers of ice can only explain such long ridges.

By David Aragorn
NASA Unveils ‘Galaxy of Horrors’ Exoplanet Posters for Halloween 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 31, 2019
These “horrifyingly inhospitable planets” make outer space very spooky.

By David Aragorn
US Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Lands After Record 780-Day Mystery Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 30, 2019
What was it doing up there?

By David Aragorn
NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2019
NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers have spotted a new type of storm on Saturn 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2019
The tempests are larger than other squalls but smaller than massive Great White Spots

By David Aragorn