Space

Nasa’s to-do list for 2018: Robots in Mars, asteroid visits, touching the sun and more 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 3, 2018
2018 is slated to be an exciting year for Nasa and its fans.

By David Aragorn
All the biggest and best space discoveries of 2017 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2017
We learned more about neutron stars, found more planets and said goodbye to Cassini in 2017. We end the year with a better picture of the Universe than we started it with.

By David Aragorn
Genes in Space-3 successfully identifies unknown microbes in space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 30, 2017
Being able to identify microbes in real time aboard the International Space Station, without having to send them back to Earth for identification first, would be revolutionary for the world of microbiology and space exploration.

By David Aragorn
Five questions about NASA’s plans to visit an alien world in 2069 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2017
Like, can we even do that?

By David Aragorn
Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2017
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.

By David Aragorn
‘Near-Earth’ asteroid set to pass us by today at 21,000mph 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2017
Object first identified on Christmas Day will travel between our planet and the moon

By David Aragorn
Giant bubbles on red giant star’s surface 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 28, 2017
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside the Solar System — the ageing red giant π1 Gruis. This remarkable new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that make up the surface of this huge star, which has 350 times the diameter of the Sun. Each cell covers more than a quarter of the star’s diameter and measures about 120 million kilometres across. These new results are being published this week in the journal Nature.

By David Aragorn
Potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid, larger than thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 28, 2017
Classified as “potentially hazardous”, the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon has a diameter of about six kilometres — roughly one kilometre larger than previous estimates, new radar images obtained by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suggest.

By David Aragorn
Oumuamua: First alien object to visit our solar system is wrapped in strange organic coat, scientists reveal 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 22, 2017
‘It was the opposite of what I was expecting we might see’

By David Aragorn
NASA’s next mission will either grab part of a comet, or bop around one of Saturn’s moons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 22, 2017
Which one will win? We’ll find out in 2019.

By David Aragorn