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SpaceX to launch a rare expendable mission on Tuesday evening 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 7, 2019
There has been a pretty remarkable sea change in the attitudes toward rocket reuse.

By David Aragorn
No E.T. Life Yet? Here’s Why That’s Important.0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- August 7, 2019
It barely got a mention in the media, but in June the U.S. Navy briefed members of Congress on UFOs.

By David Aragorn
Orion’s Service Module completes critical propulsion test 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 7, 2019
NASA is building a system to send astronauts to the Moon for Artemis missions, and that includes tests to make sure the Orion spacecraft is prepared to safely carry crew on an alternate mission profile in the face of unexpected problems.

By David Aragorn
Curiosity Mars Rover: 22nd Full-depth Drill Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 6, 2019
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2488 duties and there’s now official word on Curiosity Mars rover’s recent success.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers find that Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2019
Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars is not flat but dramatically warped and twisted in shape.

By David Aragorn
The future of asteroid tracking 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 3, 2019
Scientists continue to find dangerous asteroids in Earth’s vicinity, but to fully capture the threat these nearby space rocks pose, they need tools that aren’t in operation now and may not be for years to come.

By David Aragorn
Planetary Society Says LightSail 2 Demonstrated Flight by Light 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2019
The Planetary Society says that its LightSail 2 satellite has demonstrated the ability to change its orbit by the power of light.

By David Aragorn
TESS finds potentially habitable super-Earth 31 light-years away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2019
After completing its first year of observations in the southern sky, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted some intriguing new exoplanets only 31 light-years away from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Apollo 11 installed an experiment on the Moon that is still working today 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2019
NASA’s Apollo 11 mission broke new ground in a lot of obvious ways. Landing humans on the lunar surface was a huge accomplishment, as was the first (and each subsequent) moonwalk.

By David Aragorn
Star orbiting massive black hole lends support to Einstein’s theory 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 31, 2019
Observations of light coming from a star zipping in orbit around the humongous black hole at the center of our galaxy have provided fresh evidence backing Albert Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity, astronomers said on Thursday.

By David Aragorn