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India’s first attempt to land on the moon appears to have failed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 26, 2019
The Vikram lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface on September 6

By David Aragorn
Confirmed: Comet Borisov Is Another Interstellar Visitor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 26, 2019
The first-ever comet from beyond our solar system, as imaged by the Gemini Observatory. The image of the newly discovered object, named 2I/Borisov, was taken on the night of Sept. 9-10, 2019 using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North Telescope from Hawaii’s Mauna Kea

By David Aragorn
NASA Faces Political Roadblock in Getting to Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 25, 2019
NASA faces an uphill battle to sell its lunar initiative to Congress, and agency administrator Jim Bridenstine is lobbying hard for funding for the Artemis program, reports The Washington Post.

By David Aragorn
NASA and Lockheed Martin Finalize $2.7 Billion Contract Towards Lunar Expedition 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 25, 2019
NASA has just signed off on the production of six Orion spacecraft.

By David Aragorn
Did Venus, Earth’s ‘Twisted Sister’ Hellscape Planet, Once Harbor Water — and Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 24, 2019
Vast seas may have covered “hellish hothouse” Venus for billions of years.

By David Aragorn
Putting Astronauts on the Moon in 2024 Is a Tall Order, NASA Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 24, 2019
But nobody said it was supposed to be easy.

By David Aragorn
International Space Agencies Are Going to Smash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2019
The time has come. We’re going to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid.

By David Aragorn
Melting Exomoon May Explain Long-Term Dimming of Milky Way’s ‘Most-Mysterious Star’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2019
A team of astrophysicists from Columbia University proposes that the strange long-term dimming of the KIC 8462852 star (also known as Tabby’s star or Boyajian’s star) is the result of a disk of debris — torn from a melting moon – that is accumulating and orbiting the star.

By David Aragorn
NASA Places Final Parts on Its Space Launch System Due to Send a Rocket to the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2019
This will be NASA’s first moon landing since Apollo 11.

By David Aragorn
Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2019
Astronomers have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass possible for a neutron star.

By David Aragorn