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Nasa’s Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars – but still has much more than half of its journey to go 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2020
The rover is taking a curved route due to the Sun’s gravitational pull

By David Aragorn
Mars-sized rogue planet found drifting through the Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2020
Astronomers have discovered a planetary free agent floating through the Milky Way, unbound to the gravity of any nearby stars. The discovery, detailed Thursday in Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests the Milky Way may be teeming with rogue planets.

By David Aragorn
LIGO and Virgo announce 39 new gravitational wave discoveries during first half of third observing run 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2020
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released a catalog of results from the first half of its third observing run (O3a), and scientists have detected more than three times as many gravitational waves than the first two runs combined.

By David Aragorn
Massive asteroid subject of new findings 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2020
A University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomer has revealed critical new findings linked to a large asteroid expected to pass extremely close to Earth.

By David Aragorn
Bulging with a galaxy’s data 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2020
Astronomers get to the heart of the Milky Way.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers find new way to hunt the elusive Planet 9 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 29, 2020
Finding Planet Nine may require looking at telescope images in a different light.

By David Aragorn
NASA says its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover hit a fun milestone today 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2020
NASA’s Perseverance rover launched for Mars in late July, carrying with it a small helicopter and a suite of instruments to increase exploration of the Red Planet.

By David Aragorn
Ultraviolet shines light on origins of our solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2020
In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team of researchers has compared the composition of the sun to the composition of the most ancient materials that formed in our solar system: refractory inclusions in unmetamorphosed meteorites.

By David Aragorn
NorthStar and Thales Alenia Space begin work on satellites to combat space collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2020
Canada’s NorthStar Earth & Space and Thales Alenia Space said on Tuesday they will begin work on a commercial satellite system to combat the threat of collisions in space.

By David Aragorn
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion engine could mean a three month trip to Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 28, 2020
A company from Seattle called Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) has developed a concept for a new type of propulsion unit and delivered details to NASA. The company claims that the new Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) engine is safer and more reliable than previous designs.

By David Aragorn