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Steam-Powered Spacecraft Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Forever, Refueling Itself in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2019
The era of renewed space exploration has led to some rather ambitious proposals.

By David Aragorn
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2019
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of small objects orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, say researchers.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid strikes ‘increase threefold over last 300m years’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion

By David Aragorn
Apophis asteroid could strike Earth in 2068, warn Russian scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
The ominously-named Apophis asteroid could have hundreds of opportunities to hit the Earth over the course of the next century, Russian scientists have warned.

By David Aragorn
Stargazers share images of the super blood wolf moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 21, 2019
Sky gazers were treated to a rare lunar eclipse known as a super blood wolf moon on Sunday night, in which sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere lit the celestial body in a dramatic fashion and turned it red.

By David Aragorn
‘Farout,’ the most-distant solar system object discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 19, 2019
For the first time, an object in our solar system has been found more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun.

By David Aragorn
Two daring spacecraft aim to bring asteroid dust back to Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2019
The pristine space material may help explain life’s beginnings

By David Aragorn
Thousands of stars turning into crystals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2019
The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by astronomers at the University of Warwick, and our skies are filled with them.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid suddenly shows off a comet-like tail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2019
A smash-up in the asteroid belt may have turned a previously calm and quiet space rock into a splashier kind of celestial object.

By David Aragorn
Steam-propelled spacecraft could explore asteroids ‘forever’, say scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2019
‘Awesome’ technology could be used to explore ‘anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity’

By David Aragorn