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Some Active Process is Cracking Open These Faults on Mars. But What is it?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 9, 2017
A 2008 image showing a portion of the North Polar layered deposits with lines of very small pits on the surface of Mars.

By David Aragorn
The Ghost of a Dwarf Galaxy: Fossils of the Hierarchical Formation of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 5907 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 8, 2017
We present with outstanding detail an extragalactic perspective of an extended stellar tidal stream wrapping around the edge-on, spiral galaxy NGC 5907.

By David Aragorn
Cosmic Deep Freeze!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 8, 2017
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Aboard the ISS Will Reshape Our Understanding of Matter and Gravity

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Letting You Download Its Software For Free 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 8, 2017
Turns out you don’t need to hack NASA or work for them in order to use their technology.

By David Aragorn
NASA Creating a New Spacecraft to Prevent Extinction-Level Earth-Bound Asteroid Impact 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2017
NASA is working to get a spacecraft to an asteroid before one strikes Earth.

By David Aragorn
Nearby Comet Has a Big Heart, Radar Reveals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 6, 2017
A rare opportunity to study a comet using radar technology has yielded new measurements of this traveling space rock’s size, shape, geology and rotation rate.

By David Aragorn
NASA orbiter steers clear of Mars moon Phobos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 3, 2017
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars’ moon Phobos.

By David Aragorn
Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
It might sound trite to say that the Universe is full of mysteries. But it’s true.

By David Aragorn
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet.

By David Aragorn
NASA Satellite Spots Moon’s Shadow over Patagonia 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 28, 2017
On Feb. 26, 2017, an annular eclipse of the sun was visible along a narrow path that stretched from the southern tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean and into southern Africa.

By David Aragorn