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Sugar derivatives in meteorites shows enantiomeric excess 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 22, 2016
A slice from the 4.5-billion-year-old Allende meteorite. This rock was formed along with the solar system.

By David Aragorn
X-ray Echoes of a Shredded Star Provide Close-up of ‘Killer’ Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 22, 2016
Scientists and Astronomers have witnessed an amazing event of a star being ripped apart by a black hole, and they were able to observe and study this special class of black holes in full detail for the first time.

By David Aragorn
Newborn giant planet grazes its star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 21, 2016
While monitoring a star barely two million years old called V830 Tau, located in the Taurus stellar nursery some 430 light years away, that an international team of astronomers discovered the youngest known hot Jupiter.

By David Aragorn
‘Space tsunami’ causes the third Van Allen Belt 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2016
Scientists have observed huge plasma waves from space that has battered into earth like a giant space tsunami.

By David Aragorn
Extreme trans-Neptunian objects lead the way to Planet Nine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2016
The motions of the extreme trans-Neptunian objects suggest that there is an unknown planet in the confines of the solar system.

By David Aragorn
Small Asteroid Is Earth’s Constant Companion 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2016
A small asteroid has been discovered in an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, and it will remain so for centuries to come.

By David Aragorn
Unexpected excess of giant planets in star cluster 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2016
Astronomers have found far more planets like this in the cluster than expected.

By David Aragorn
Second gravitational wave detected from ancient black hole collision 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2016
Following February’s historic announcement, LIGO has again spotted ripples in the fabric of spacetime, from the collision of a second set of black holes

By David Aragorn
We have the technology to look for ET right now – why don’t we?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 17, 2016
The search could be on. A new study suggests that Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has the potential to search three freshly discovered planets to see if anyone lives there.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Mars Recruitment Posters Will Convince You to Go Die in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2016
We will be teachers, and welders, and farmers, and satellite technicians, and guards against the Martian night-octopuses that presumably overrun its lunar plains.

By Around the Web Editor