Space

Dust storms swirl at Mars’ north pole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2019
Over the last month, ESA’s Mars Express has been watching dust storms brew at the planet’s north pole and disperse toward the equator.

By David Aragorn
Tiny Lightsail 2 will soon sail through space on rays of light 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2019
Tagging along on SpaceX’s latest Falcon Heavy launch was a special little satellite, designed by the biggest space advocacy group in the world, the Planetary Society.

By David Aragorn
NASA won’t launch a mission to hunt deadly asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2019
NASA says it can’t afford to build a space telescope considered the fastest way to identify asteroids that might impact the Earth with terrible consequences.

By David Aragorn
Massive, kilometer-sized asteroid was just found orbiting the Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2019
A newly found asteroid has been spotted orbiting the Sun, whizzing past the star every 151 days, the shortest orbit of any space rock on record.

By David Aragorn
How NASA Will Prolong the Lives of the Voyager Probes, 11 Billion Miles From Earth 1
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2019
Launched 42 years ago, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes are now exploring the outer realms of our solar system. Sadly, the end of the mission is now firmly in sight, but NASA has a plan to keep the probes operational for as long as possible before their power finally runs out.

By David Aragorn
Secretive X-37B space plane caught on camera 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2019
For the first time, someone has managed to snap an image of the enigmatic mini-shuttle in Earth’s orbit.

By David Aragorn
Large unknown mass discovered on the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2019
Scientists have identified a large, anomalous mass embedded deep beneath the Moon’s largest crater.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s new early-warning meteor impact system is needed more than ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2019
Scientists fear a repeat of the 2013 strike in Russia and the devastating 1908 impact

By David Aragorn
Living and working around the moon: NASA makes plans for a new space station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2019
Imagine, a few years from now, looking up into the night sky and seeing a full moon, brightly illuminating the landscape in front of you.

By David Aragorn
The Holographic Universe Explained 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 6, 2019
We live in a universe with 3 dimensions of space and one of time. Up, down, left, right, forward, back, past, future. 3+1 dimensions. Or so our primitive Pleistocene-evolved brains find it useful to believe. And we cling to this intuition, even as physics shows us that this view of reality may be only a very narrow perception. One of the most startling possibilities is that our 3+1 dimensional universe may better described as resulting from a spacetime one dimension lower – like a hologram projected from a surface infinitely far away.

By David Aragorn