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This is earth’s real first line of defense against asteroid strikes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 23, 2018
What do we have if a world-ending asteroid is heading straight for us?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s MarCO-B CubeSat Captures Earth-Moon Image 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2018
NASA’s MarCO-B spacecraft — one of two CubeSats accompanying the space agency’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander — used a fisheye camera to snap its first photo on May 9, 2018.

By David Aragorn
Multiverse Might Not Be as Inhospitable to Life as Previously Thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 16, 2018
Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology. Now, new research — published in two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society — has shown that life could potentially be common throughout the Multiverse, if it exists; and the key to this is dark energy, a form of energy that naturally permeates all space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the Universe.

By David Aragorn
First 3-D map of a gas cloud in space shows it’s flat like a pancake 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Its newfound shape could explain why the structure is missing stars

By David Aragorn
Moon of Jupiter prime candidate for alien life after water blast found 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft flew through a giant plume of water that erupted from the icy surface of Europa, new analysis shows

By David Aragorn
Old NASA spacecraft points to new evidence of watery plumes over Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
A fresh look at data from a 1997 flyby of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, suggests that NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew directly through a watery plume, raising hopes of probing the jets for signs of life around the second planet from Earth.

By David Aragorn
LOST ASTEROID RETURNS TO EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Almost 8 years ago, the Catalina Sky Survey discovered an asteroid as wide as a football field.

By David Aragorn
Ancient, Exiled Asteroid Discovered Beyond Neptune 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Astronomers have spotted a carbon-rich asteroid in the icy region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt — the first such asteroid ever found exiled from the inner solar system.

By David Aragorn
An asteroid that nobody knew was coming flew very, very close to our planet. Gulp.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 14, 2018
An asteroid that nobody knew was coming whizzed by us a few weeks ago.

By David Aragorn
ICE AGE WARNING: Sunspots begin to disappear from Sun as Earth braces for cold snap 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 12, 2018
FEWER and fewer sunspots are appearing on the Sun as ball of fire prepares to go into a solar minimum which could lead to a mini Ice Age.

By David Aragorn