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What could Chang’e 4 discover on far side of the moon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
Chang’e 4 will test soil composition, try to grow plants, and listen for traces of Big Bang

By David Aragorn
‘Missing’ galactic mergers come to light with new technique 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
Galaxy mergers—in which two galaxies join together over billions of years in sometimes-dramatic bursts of light—aren’t always easy for astronomers to spot. Now, scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new technique for finding these cosmic couplings in surveys of the night sky.

By David Aragorn
Less than a year after launch, TESS is already finding bizarre worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
The first few exoplanets nabbed by the telescope are unlike any yet seen

By David Aragorn
Astrophysicists Find First Observational Evidence for ‘Dark Matter Heating’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
An international team of astrophysicists from the University of Surrey, Carnegie Mellon University and ETH Zürich has found evidence that dark matter can be heated up and moved around, as a result of star formation in galaxies.

By David Aragorn
ASTEROID FLYING BY EARTH HAS A MOON 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
Yesterday, Jan. 7th, near-Earth asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past the Earth-Moon system only 2.8 million miles away.

By David Aragorn
The meteor shower that brought Tunguska is due in June 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
That disastrous rock may now looks to have been a Beta Taurid passenger

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and broke a space exploration record.

By David Aragorn
Imagine Giving Birth in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2019
A start-up wants a woman to deliver a child 250 miles above Earth. The first question: Why?

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Going To Crash a Satellite Into an Asteroid—On Purpose 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2019
On the off chance that giant asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth—and Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are unavailable—NASA is putting together a backup plan

By David Aragorn
Ultima Thule is Contact Binary, New Horizons Team Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2019
New images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — taken from as close as 17,000 miles (27,000 km) on approach — revealed Ultima Thule as a contact binary.

By David Aragorn