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Will moon mining be BANNED?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 18, 2017
International space law could prevent billionaires from extracting precious metals from the lunar surface

By David Aragorn
A Little Cluster in the Big Dog 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 18, 2017
The constellation Canis Majoris, the ‘Big Dog’, is home to many fine open clusters of blue-white stars along the stubby Orion Arm of the Milky Way. There are some real gems here, including the modest but delightful open star cluster NGC 2362, a group that hosts some of the youngest-known stars. Centered on the bright star τ (tau) Canis Majoris, this cluster, in a telescope, looks like a large diamond set among many smaller blue-white gems.

By David Aragorn
Hacking the Human Brain—New Tech Could Make It a Reality 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 18, 2017
Your thoughts are your own, right? Perhaps not. New technology is bringing that day closer when the unscrupulous may actually be able to hack human thoughts.

By David Aragorn
Zero Point Documentary 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, UFO News
- February 17, 2017
The story of Mark McCandelish and the Fluxliner.

By David Aragorn
King of the “Contactees”: The bizarre UFO saga of George Adamski.0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 17, 2017
In November 1952, a man named George Adamski, a Polish-born, California-bred ranch owner and operator of a burger stand, claimed that he and several friends were walking in the desert near Desert Center, California when an alien spacecraft swooped down and landed near them.

By David Aragorn
NASA wants to send a life-detecting lander to Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 17, 2017
It will look for life in the Jovian moon’s saltwater ocean.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sharpens Paradox of Ancient Mars 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 17, 2017
Curiosity rover findings add to a puzzle about ancient Mars because the same rocks that indicate a lake was present also indicate there was very little carbon dioxide in the air to help keep a lake unfrozen.

By David Aragorn
We finally have a computer that can survive the surface of Venus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2017
Sulphuric rain is easy; not being cremated by 500°C or crushed by 90 atmospheres is hard.

By David Aragorn
Mercury’s Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2017
New analysis of observations made by NASA’s MESSENGER mission reveal where the solar system’s innermost planet’s water ice is but not where it’s from.

By David Aragorn
Aliens are probably out there, according to Winston Churchill 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2017
A newly-investigated essay from 1939 reveals Churchill’s thoughts on E.T.

By David Aragorn