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The Worsening Cosmic Ray Situation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2018
March 5, 2018: Cosmic rays are bad–and they’re getting worse.

By David Aragorn
Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2018
A new study confirms that this collision with a huge object — which was approximately twice the size of Earth — could have led to the planet’s extreme tilt and other odd attributes. Uranus, the planet with the unforgettable name, is unique in a number of ways. “All of the planets in the solar system

By David Aragorn
Fragment of impacting asteroid recovered in Botswana 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2018
On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh meteorite in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s Moons Spin Intricate Auroras at Planet’s Poles 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2018
New research shows the closest-ever views of features in Jupiter’s swirling auroras, revealing the complicated footprints left by its moons Io and Ganymede.

By David Aragorn
Many asteroids might be remnants of five destroyed worlds, scientists say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2018
Asteroids could have more materials on them then we thought.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Ryugu, an asteroid under close inspection 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2018
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft plans to strike the asteroid creating a crater and dislodging rocks for analysis

By David Aragorn
Comet or asteroid? Mysterious ‘Oumuamua shows why we may need a new classification system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2018
Ever since space scientists first spotted the odd, cigar-shaped object known as 1I/‘Oumuamua in the sky, they have been debating what it is exactly. Suggestions have included an asteroid, a comet and even alien spaceship. Now a study, published in Nature, suggests it may actually be a comet – but an unusual one.

By David Aragorn
First Human Mission To Binary Asteroid Will Help NASA Defend Earth From Possible Collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2018
The Hera spacecraft mission, proposed by the European Space Agency, is heading to a binary asteroid to support NASA’s planetary defense plan against potential asteroid collision.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers find remainder of universe’s missing ordinary matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2018
“We found the missing baryons,” researcher Michael Shull said.

By David Aragorn
First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet Caught with ESO’s VLT 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2018
SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image of a planet caught in the act of forming in the dusty disc surrounding a young star. The young planet is carving a path through the primordial disc of gas and dust around the very young star PDS 70. The data suggest that the planet’s atmosphere is cloudy.

By David Aragorn