Space

Looting Asteroids’ Water Will Make Launches Cheaper 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 27, 2016
An asteroid mining concept could quickly deliver satellites to high orbit on the cheap.

By David Aragorn
A rare opportunity for planet hunting in Alpha Centauri A predicted for 2028 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 27, 2016
A very rare gravitational lensing event, set to occur in 2028, has been predicted by a team of French astronomers led by Pierre Kervella of the CNRS/Universidad de Chile. It will provide an ideal opportunity to look for evidence of a planet around a nearby star.

By David Aragorn
Tim Peake: Latest stunning photos and videos from the International Space Station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2016
Tim Peake, one of the residents of the International Space Station, had taken many pictures of his time spent up there. Here is most of those pictures.

By David Aragorn
Cosmic “flying V” of merging galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2016
This large “flying V” is actually two distinct objects — a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184.

By David Aragorn
Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2016
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.

By David Aragorn
Kepler has caught hundreds of asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
Kepler has had managed to ‘catch’ many meteors and asteroids in its mission to observe stars, and some astronomers have decided to use this data.

By David Aragorn
Schiaparelli: Mars probe ‘crash site identified’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
The gouge in the ground probably made by Europe’s Schiaparelli probe as it hit the surface of Mars on Wednesday has been imaged by a US satellite.

By David Aragorn
‘Planet Nine’ Can’t Hide Much Longer, Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
Planet Nine’s days of lurking unseen in the dark depths of the outer solar system may be numbered.

By David Aragorn
Did 40-year-old Viking experiment discover life on Mars?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
In 1976, two Viking landers became the first US spacecraft from Earth to touch down on Mars. They took the first high-resolution images of the planet, surveyed the planet’s geographical features, and analyzed the geological composition of the atmosphere and surface. Perhaps most intriguingly, they also performed experiments that searched for signs of microbial life in Martian soil.

By David Aragorn
The Sun’s Mysterious Tilt Gets A Surprising Explanation Astronomers point to Planet Nine.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 23, 2016
“So Planet Nine has tilted the entire disk of the solar system by 6 degrees and because we live on that disk…to us it looks like the sun is tilted, but it’s actually the other way around.”

By Around the Web Editor