Space

NASA camera spots China’s Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2020
Spacecraft or space rock?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its nuclear power source 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
The nuclear power generator for NASA’s Perseverance rover has been installed on the spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral, and mission managers gave a green light Wednesday to continue preparations for the rover’s July 30 launch.

By David Aragorn
China launches its first unmanned mission to Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of space-faring nations.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Nasa delays James Webb space telescope to October 2021 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Delay is result of coronavirus pandemic and technical challenges as troubled project is set to cost £6.8bn

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Directly Image Two Giant Exoplanets around Young Sun-Like Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Astronomers using the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a second planetary-mass companion orbiting TYC 8998-760-1, a 16.7-million-year-old solar-type star previously known to host one giant planet. The researchers have also managed to directly image this multi-planet system.

By David Aragorn
Astrophysicists Have Made the Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2020
This is the result of a 20-year collaboration of several hundred scientists from around 30 different institutions around the world.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find ‘lost’ planet in breakthrough that could help us discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2020
World was spotted by Nasa telescopes – but then disappeared, until now

By David Aragorn
Asteroid shower rained space rocks on Earth and the moon 800 million years ago 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- July 22, 2020
An asteroid shower thought to have struck the moon and Earth 800 million years ago may have helped trigger Earth’s greatest ice ages, a new study finds.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity rover is about to drill into this weird rock 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 22, 2020
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has arrived at its next drilling location and plans to take samples of a rock known as “Breamish.”

By David Aragorn
Likely active volcanoes found on Venus, defying theory of dormant planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2020
Researchers identify 37 ring-like structures known as coronae that are believed to be living volcanoes

By David Aragorn