Space

Terrawatch: the mysteries of the moon’s largest crater 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2019
A recent Chinese mission has revealed more about the South Pole Aitken basin

By David Aragorn
Tons of Water in Asteroids Could Fuel Satellites, Space Exploration 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2019
When it comes to mining space for water, the best target may not be the moon: Entrepreneurs’ richest options are likely to be asteroids that are larger and closer to Earth.

By David Aragorn
Is Planet Nine Really Just an Old Black Hole?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 1, 2019
New research argues Planet Nine is really just a black hole left over from the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Near-Earth objects could be used by extraterrestrials ‘to watch our world,’ stunning study suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 1, 2019
Although Earth only has one moon, it does have other natural satellites, including asteroid 2016 HO3, known as a “co-orbital object.” These tiny celestial objects could be an “attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence,” according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
Elon Musk to provide update on SpaceX’s Starship this weekend 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2019
In the last few months, teams of SpaceX engineers working on the flat coastal plains of South Texas and in a nondescript industrial yard on Florida’s Space Coast have been building two futuristic-looking stainless steel rockets — or Starships — prototypes for a reusable vehicle the company claims could one day ferry people to Mars.

By David Aragorn
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2019
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA’s WFIRST space telescope, according to new models of gas giant planet formation by Carnegie’s Alan Boss, described in an upcoming publication in The Astrophysical Journal. His models are supported by a new Science paper on the surprising discovery of a gas giant planet orbiting a low-mass star.

By David Aragorn
NASA plays Where’s Waldo? with India’s crashed Moon lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2019
You’d think spotting a crashed lander on the surface of the Moon would be easier, but NASA is discovering that the hunt can be trickier than you might expect. Searches for India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, have turned up empty-handed so far, with the failed mission so far escaping the high-resolution eye of NASA’s lunar satellites.

By David Aragorn
These three black holes are going to crash into each other 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2019
When galaxies collide, so do the supermassive black holes at the center of each galaxy. For the first time, astronomers have observed a triple collision of galaxies, which have sent their black holes on a collision course, according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
A Summer without Sunspots 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2019
Could northern summer 2019 go down in history as “the summer without sunspots”?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s $30 billion Artemis missions will attempt to set up a moon base 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2019
NASA announced its returned mission to the moon by 2024, titled Artemis it will cost an estimated $20-$30 billion.

By David Aragorn