Did Venus, Earth’s ‘Twisted Sister’ Hellscape Planet, Once Harbor Water — and Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 24, 2019
Vast seas may have covered “hellish hothouse” Venus for billions of years.

Vast seas may have covered “hellish hothouse” Venus for billions of years.

But nobody said it was supposed to be easy.

The time has come. We’re going to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid.

A team of astrophysicists from Columbia University proposes that the strange long-term dimming of the KIC 8462852 star (also known as Tabby’s star or Boyajian’s star) is the result of a disk of debris — torn from a melting moon – that is accumulating and orbiting the star.

This will be NASA’s first moon landing since Apollo 11.

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.

Two target markers deployed around Ryugu ahead of lander’s planned descent next month

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.

466 million years ago, the break-up of a large space rock may have led to major changes in our planet’s biodiversity

The behemoth at the center of the galaxy flared up in near-infrared wavelengths



