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NASA’s surprise Australian location pick for world-first rocket launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2019
The world’s biggest space agency, NASA, has chosen a tiny and remote location in Australia for a world-first rocket launch.

By David Aragorn
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2019
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln.

By David Aragorn
Hyperactive Comets Contain ‘Ocean-Like’ Water 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2019
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the hyperactive Jupiter-family comet 46P/Wirtanen as it made its closest approach to Earth in December 2018. Now the latest analysis of SOFIA’s data reveals that water in hyperactive comets may share a common origin with Earth’s oceans, reinforcing the idea that comets played a key role in bringing water to our planet billions of years ago.

By David Aragorn
New V-shaped airplane will use less fuel than the Airbus A350 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 6, 2019
A new V-shaped airplane is being developed by TU-Delft and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The improved aerodynamic shape and reduced weight will mean the craft uses 20% less fuel than the Airbus A350, which is today’s most advanced aircraft.

By David Aragorn
The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2019
The finding confirms that gases are orbiting the Milky Way’s gravitational behemoth

By David Aragorn
ESA Draws Up Plans to Bring Back a Sample From Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2019
NASA isn’t the only space agency with a hunger for the Red Planet. The European Space Agency would also like to snatch samples from Mars, and now they’re making their own plans for a mission that will bring back priceless pieces of our neighboring planet.

By David Aragorn
Rogue Chinese scientist made ‘foolish’ choice in gene-edited babies 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 5, 2019
A rogue Chinese scientist who caused outrage last year when he said he had created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies in an attempt to protect them from HIV may also have put them at risk with a “foolish” choice of gene, experts said on Monday.

By David Aragorn
Ex-Defense Official: UFOs Pose A “Vital National Security Threat”0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 5, 2019
According to a top ex-defense official, the United States is not the only nation that has struggled to explain UFO sighting. Not only have the sightings been happening worldwide, but Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, says the unidentified flying objects pose a “vital national security threat.”

By David Aragorn
Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2019
It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun — why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface?

By David Aragorn
The Southern Ocean may be less of a carbon sink than we thought 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 4, 2019
The water surrounding Antarctica may be belching more CO2 than it takes in

By David Aragorn