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NASA prepares ‘moonikin’ for spaceflight aboard 1st Artemis mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 21, 2021
A public competition to name the dummy is also underway.

By David Aragorn
Chinese astronauts board space station module in historic mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2021
Three Chinese astronauts on Thursday flew to an unfinished space station in China’s first crewed mission since 2016, expanding the country’s already growing near-Earth presence and challenging U.S. leadership in orbital space.

By David Aragorn
Physicists dream big with an idea for a particle collider on the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 17, 2021
A lunar particle accelerator could reach 1,000 times the energy of Earth’s largest collider

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Perseverance rover begins its search for ancient Martian life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2021
With the Mars helicopter now buzzing around on its own, Perseverance can focus its attention on answering one of the most important questions about Mars.

By David Aragorn
‘Great Dimming’ of Betelgeuse star is solved 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2021
Astronomers say they’ve put to bed the mystery of why one of the most familiar stars in the night sky suddenly dimmed just over a year ago.

By David Aragorn
China prepares to send astronauts to new space station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2021
Crew reportedly getting ready to blast off this week to the Tiangong on China’s longest crewed space mission to date

By David Aragorn
Gravitational waves confirm a black hole law predicted by Stephen Hawking 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2021
The “area law” says that a black hole’s surface area cannot decrease over time

By David Aragorn
Most planets on tilted orbits pass over the poles of their suns 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 14, 2021
Earth is on an orderly path around the sun, orbiting in nearly the same plane as our star’s equator. In 2008, however, astronomers began finding worlds in other solar systems that sail far above and below their star’s equatorial plane.

By David Aragorn
An arc of galaxies 3 billion light-years long may challenge cosmology 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 12, 2021
The discovery is a “big deal” if true, but still needs to be confirmed

By David Aragorn
NASA reveals its first two payload missions to the Moon’s far side 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 12, 2021
The Moon has two ‘sides,’ one that perpetually faces the Earth and another that perpetually faces away from our planet. Many refer to this as the Moon’s far side, one that hasn’t gotten as much attention from scientists as the part we can directly observe. That has slowly changed, however, and now NASA plans to join the work.

By David Aragorn