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Every NASA Mission Should Be Looking for Alien Life, Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2018
Searching for signs of alien life should be part of every future NASA mission, researchers wrote in a new report.

By David Aragorn
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 12, 2018
A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS).

By David Aragorn
A Third Probe Landed on Asteroid Ryugu—but It Had Just 16 Hours to Live 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 10, 2018
A German-French probe called MASCOT was sent to the surface of Ryugu, an asteroid located 190 million miles from Earth, to collect valuable data. But it needed to work fast—the shoebox-sized probe had only 16 hours to live.

By David Aragorn
3 compelling reasons why we haven’t found aliens yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 9, 2018
Aliens have always captured our imaginations. The universe is large and filled with other planets but somehow it seems like humans are alone. So we decided to break down three theories on why we haven’t found any aliens yet. Following is a transcript of the video.

By David Aragorn
We may not have found aliens yet because we’ve barely begun looking 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 6, 2018
A new calculation compares the effort so far to exploring a hot tub’s–worth of Earth’s oceans

By David Aragorn
In the hunt for aliens, satellites may light the way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 5, 2018
If aliens love satellites as much as we do, we might be able to spot them

By David Aragorn
Saturn’s ‘ring rain’ is a surprising cocktail of chemicals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 5, 2018
A new analysis of Cassini data could shed light on the origins of the massive belts

By David Aragorn
Phosphates, Key Building Blocks for Life, May Have Come from Deep Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 4, 2018
An international team of researchers from the United States, Taiwan and France provides new evidence that phosphates — a key element in the building blocks — were generated in outer space and delivered to Earth in its first one billion years by meteorites or comets. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.

By David Aragorn
New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 4, 2018
A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, spiral toward a collision.

By David Aragorn
Dwarf planet ‘The Goblin’ discovery redefining solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 4, 2018
Massively elongated orbit suggests object is influenced by theoretical giant Planet Nine in Oort Cloud region

By David Aragorn