space

The president wants NASA back on the moon by 2024—a risky and unrealistic request 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2019
We’ll need more money, more time, or both.

By David Aragorn
A Giant 1,115-Foot Asteroid Just Skimmed Past Earth On Its Closest-Ever Approach 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2019
The asteroid is estimated to be twice as big as the Pyramid of Khufu in Giza and will return for another visit 16 years from now.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s unknown journey revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2019
It is known that gas giants around other stars are often located very near their sun. According to accepted theory, these gas planets were formed far away and subsequently migrated to an orbit closer to the star.

By David Aragorn
Evidence of a real ninth planet discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2019
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Detects Migrating Water on Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 27, 2019
Using data from the LAMP (Lyman Alpha Mapping Project) instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary researchers have observed water molecules moving around the dayside of the Moon.

By David Aragorn
Ultima Thule may be a frankenworld 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 27, 2019
Astronomers are closer to uncovering the distant space rock’s origin story

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Surprise Discovery on Bennu Just Changed What We Know About Asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 26, 2019
A shock discovery is in from Bennu. The NASA spacecraft analysing the asteroid has observed it shooting out plumes of dust that surround it in a dusty haze – a phenomenon we’ve never seen in an asteroid before.

By David Aragorn
‘Unseen’ Meteor That Exploded Over Bering Sea Caught on Camera After All 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 26, 2019
A meteor that snuck by the world’s telescopes and exploded over the Bering Sea was caught on camera after all.

By David Aragorn
Astronauts work on ISS power upgrades in first spacewalk of 2019 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 25, 2019
NASA astronauts Nick Hague, pictured top, and Anne McClain spent more than six and a half hours outside the International Space Station on March 22, 2019.

By David Aragorn
Big Questions About Small Worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 23, 2019
Scientists who study the solar system tend to ask big questions: How was our solar system formed? Where did the building blocks of life come from? What hazards from above threaten life on our planet? To find answers, they’re looking more and more at small worlds.

By David Aragorn