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Mysterious bundle of string on Mars’ surface found by Perseverance rover0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2022
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an unusual image of something lying in the red sand of Mars: a bundle of string.

By David Aragorn
Fastest-growing black hole ever seen is devouring the equivalent of 1 Earth per second0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2022
This behemoth has been powering an ultrabright quasar for 9 billion years.

By David Aragorn
Curiosity Has Found Some Truly Weird-Looking, Twisty Rock Towers on Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2022
The Curiosity rover has found an outstanding rock formation piercing the alien landscape of Mars. Amongst the shallow sands and boulders of the Gale Crater rise several twisting towers of rock – the spikes of sediment look almost like frozen streams of water poured from an invisible jug in the sky.

By David Aragorn
Telescopes reveal why Neptune is more blue than Uranus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 14, 2022
Neptune and Uranus are so similar that scientists sometimes refer to the distant, icy planets as planetary twins. But these ice giants have one big difference: their color.

By David Aragorn
The Moon May Have Been Covertly Siphoning Earth’s Water For Billions of Years0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2022
There are water molecules and ice up on the Moon, so how did they get there? Asteroid and comet collisions are likely to have produced some of it, but a new study suggests another source of lunar water: the Earth’s atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Dream Chaser space plane gets FAA approval to land at Alabama airport0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2022
The private spacecraft could be flying cargo missions to the space station as soon as 2023.

By David Aragorn
This Space Rock’s Weird Chemistry Suggests It Came From a Supernova 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2022
A rare stellar death may have formed a rock that eventually landed in Egypt.

By David Aragorn
The Sun Is Made of Way More Metal Than We Thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 1, 2022
Astronomers have found that the sun is more metallic than we previously thought, potentially solving an astronomical mystery that scientists have grappled with for years.

By David Aragorn
Something’s Glowing at The Galactic Core, And We Could Be Closer to Solving The Mystery0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2022
Something deep in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is glowing with gamma radiation, and nobody can figure out for sure what it might be.

By David Aragorn
Researchers found a new roadblock in the quest to inhabit the Moon0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 27, 2022
A new study says that growing plants on the Moon is possible. But it causes a massive amount of stress on the plants. The researchers published their findings in Communications Biology. It’s the first study to show success at growing plants in lunar soil returned from the Apollo missions all those years ago.

By David Aragorn