Space

The Search for Life on Mars Is about to Get Weird 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 18, 2017
Astrobiologists ponder sending gene sequencers, weather stations, drilling rigs and more to the Red Planet

By David Aragorn
Solving one of nature’s great puzzles: What drives the accelerating expansion of the universe?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2017
UBC physicists may have solved one of nature’s great puzzles: what causes the accelerating expansion of our universe?

By David Aragorn
Ceres’ Temporary Atmosphere Linked to Solar Activity 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2017
Scientists have long thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it’s not always present.

By David Aragorn
Primitive atmosphere discovered around ‘Warm Neptune’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2017
A pioneering new study uncovering the ‘primitive atmosphere’ surrounding a distant world could provide a pivotal breakthrough in the search to how planets form and develop in far-flung galaxies.

By David Aragorn
Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2017
Signatures of extra dimensions that don’t normally affect the four dimensions we can observe could show up in the way they warp ripples in space-time

By David Aragorn
Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 16, 2017
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully observed Ceres at opposition on April 29, taking images from a position exactly between the sun and Ceres’ surface.

By David Aragorn
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 12, 2017
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory. And, in between that range of wavelengths, the Hubble Space Telescope’s crisp visible-light view, and the infrared perspective of the Spitzer Space Telescope.

By David Aragorn
Oxygen on comet 67P might not be ancient after all 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2017
Newly discovered chemical reaction could generate the gas instead, study suggests

By David Aragorn
Does Jupiter Have a Solid Core?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2017
The gas giants have always been a mystery to us. Due their dense and swirling clouds, it is impossible to get a good look inside them and determine their true structure. Given their distance from Earth, it is time-consuming and expensive to send spacecraft to them, making survey missions few and far between. And due

By David Aragorn
Cassini spotted some breezy summer methane clouds on Titan 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2017
You won’t need sunblock, but you’ll definitely want a blanket or two

By David Aragorn