Space

DID AN ALIEN LIGHT SAIL VISIT THE SOLAR SYSTEM?0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- November 7, 2018
It sounds like a tabloid headline, but in this case it could be real.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Parker spacecraft makes first close approach to sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 7, 2018
In this July 6, 2018 file photo, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sits in a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., after the installation of its heat shield. Parker has made its first close approach to the sun, just 2 1/2 months after liftoff. The spacecraft flew within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface Monday night, Nov. 5. Its speed topped 213,000 miles (342,000 kilometers) an hour relative to the sun, as it penetrated the outer solar atmosphere, or corona. No spacecraft has ever gotten so close to our star.

By David Aragorn
Dawn mission to asteroid belt comes to end 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 7, 2018
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter.

By David Aragorn
Evidence of outburst flooding indicates plentiful water on early Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 6, 2018
The presence of water on Mars has been theorized for centuries. Early telescopes revealed ice caps, and early astronomers noted channels that were hypothesized to be natural rivers or creature-created canals.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid mining startup bought by blockchain firm hoping to democratise space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 6, 2018
Space mining of water and precious metals has the potential to become a trillion-dollar industry in the coming years, experts say

By David Aragorn
A Deadly, Fast-Spreading Form of Super-Ice Could Be Killing Off Alien Life-Forms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 5, 2018
There’s a new kind of ice.

By David Aragorn
Rare blue asteroid reveals itself during fly-by 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 3, 2018
Blue asteroids are rare, and blue comets are almost unheard of. An international team investigated (3200) Phaethon, a bizarre asteroid that sometimes behaves like a comet, and found it even more enigmatic than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
Three gas clouds nearly grazed the edge of the Milky Way’s black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 2, 2018
The observations confirm that the supermassive object really is a black hole

By David Aragorn
The planet-hunting Kepler space telescope is dead 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 31, 2018
The spacecraft’s mission is officially over after 9½ years

By David Aragorn
Martian dust devils may create rare rocket fuel ingredient 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 31, 2018
The Red Planet is a rich source of perchlorates—chemical compounds used in fertilizer and rocket fuel that are rarely formed naturally on Earth.

By David Aragorn