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One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2016
One full year of Earth, captured in a timelaps of pictures as NOAA’s DSCOVER hovers above.

By David Aragorn
‘Air Conditioning’ Could Make Exoplanets Habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2016
Alien worlds orbiting within the habitable zones of small red dwarf stars may become truly habitable if their atmospheric circulation balances the temperature extremes.

By David Aragorn
NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2016
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer — the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission.

By David Aragorn
SETI Wants New Ideas: Search Is On For Alien Life Forms Of All Kinds, Not Just The Intelligent Ones 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2016
SETI are leaving no stone unturned as they search for any signs of alien life, not just intelligent ones

By David Aragorn
Asteroid that formed moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2016
The moon has many interesting features, but what had caused the many impact shapes on it in the past?

By David Aragorn
Five years after shuttle, NASA awaits commercial crew capsules 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 20, 2016
Five years after Atlantis completed the space shuttle program’s final voyage, NASA is still at least a year away from launching its astronauts from U.S. soil.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2016
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system and found indications that increase the chances of habitability on two exoplanets.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Viking Data Lives on, Inspires 40 Years Later 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2016
Even 40 years later, the NASA Viking 1 and 2 data still inspires for Mars exploration to this day.

By David Aragorn
Wow! Another 104 confirmed exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2016
104 new exoplantes discovered by an international science team led at the University of Arizona.

By David Aragorn
X marks the spot at the center of the Milky Way galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 19, 2016
Two astronomers—with the help of Twitter—have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy.

By David Aragorn