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‘Mini-Neptunes’ beyond solar system may soon yield signs of life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 30, 2021
Cambridge astronomers identify new hycean class of habitable exoplanets, which could accelerate search for life

By David Aragorn
China eyes ‘ultra-large spacecraft’ spanning miles in US$2.3m crewed mission push 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 28, 2021
Science and technology ministry’s funding arm proposes five-year project on building ‘ultra-large spacecraft’ to aid exploration and stay in long-term orbit

By David Aragorn
We trained AI to recognise footprints, but it won’t replace forensic experts yet 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 27, 2021
We rely on experts all the time. If you need financial advice, you ask an expert. If you are sick, you visit a doctor, and as a juror you may listen to an expert witness. In the future, however, artificial intelligence (AI) might replace many of these people.

By David Aragorn
Larger Minority in U.S. Says Some UFOs Are Alien Spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 27, 2021
View that some UFOs are alien spacecraft is up eight points since 2019

By David Aragorn
Cool Places We Could Migrate to Beyond Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 27, 2021
Our solar system is home to some unusual places we could potentially migrate to if Earth were to die.

By David Aragorn
China’s Mars rover assigned extended mission after exceeding life expectancy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 27, 2021
But first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun

By David Aragorn
Ancient Babylonians Mastered Trigonometry WAY Before Pythagoras 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 27, 2021
No hate to the Greek philosopher, but he wasn’t the first to use Pythagorean triples.

By David Aragorn
Study: Interstellar Visitors Outnumber Solar System Objects in Oort Cloud 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 27, 2021
The recent detection of 2I/Borisov, the first known interstellar comet to visit our Solar System, implies that interstellar objects outnumber the non-interstellar ones in the Oort Cloud, whereas the reverse is true near the Sun due to the stronger gravitational focusing of bound objects, according to a new paper authored by Harvard & Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics astronomers Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb.

By David Aragorn
‘Flashes of Creation’ recounts the Big Bang theory’s origin story 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 26, 2021
A new book tells the history of George Gamow, Fred Hoyle and the origin of the universe

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Fastest-Orbiting Asteroid Ever Seen 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 26, 2021
The newly-discovered asteroid 2021 PH27 has a diameter of about 1 km (3,280 feet) and orbits the Sun in just 113 days — the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in our Solar System after Mercury.

By David Aragorn