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NASA Places Final Parts on Its Space Launch System Due to Send a Rocket to the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2019
This will be NASA’s first moon landing since Apollo 11.

By David Aragorn
Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2019
Astronomers have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass possible for a neutron star.

By David Aragorn
Storm Area 51 weekend has arrived. Here’s what’s actually happening.0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- September 21, 2019
A guide to the competing alien-themed events taking place in Nevada in the aftermath of a viral meme.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Japan’s Hayabusa 2 targets final asteroid landing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2019
Two target markers deployed around Ryugu ahead of lander’s planned descent next month

By David Aragorn
Scientists use fossilised finger bone DNA to rebuild ancient human 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 20, 2019
Unprecedented feat reveals little-known Denisovans resembled Neanderthals but had ‘super-wide’ skulls

By David Aragorn
When Physics Collide: The Rapport between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 20, 2019
These two physics theories have not been linkable in the past.

By David Aragorn
NASA couldn’t find India’s crashed Moon lander, and hope is fading fast 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2019
It’s now been nearly two full weeks since India’s lunar lander, Chandrayaan-2, went quiet moments before what was supposed to be a soft landing on the Moon.

By David Aragorn
Alien enthusiasts descend on Nevada desert near secretive U.S. base 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- September 20, 2019
UFO enthusiasts began descending on rural Nevada on Thursday near the secret U.S. military installation known as Area 51, long rumored to house government secrets about alien life, with local authorities hoping the visitors were coming in peace.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Dust Triggered an Explosion of Life on Ancient Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- September 19, 2019
466 million years ago, the break-up of a large space rock may have led to major changes in our planet’s biodiversity

By David Aragorn
33ft ‘frozen dragon’ pterosaur found in Canada 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- September 19, 2019
Palaeontologists have identified one of the largest flying creatures ever to live on planet Earth. This gargantuan creature, which soared through the Cretaceous skies over 76 million years ago, has been named Cryodrakon boreas, which means ‘frozen dragon of the north.’

By David Aragorn