space

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes Eleventh Jupiter Flyby, Delivers New Photos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
NASA’s Juno orbiter successfully made its eleventh flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018.

By David Aragorn
Asteroids Could Be ‘Time Capsules’ Showing How Life Began on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
As much as we tend to panic over the idea of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, one possible explanation for life on Earth is that an asteroid brought it here in the first place.

By David Aragorn
Tiny Martian Moons Hint at Red Planet’s Adolescent Rejection 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2018
Like a teenage diary you can’t throw away, Mars might carry a reminder of its difficult formative years in its tiny moons. A paper published by the Royal Astronomical Society suggests the strangely small Phobos and Deimos could result from a traumatic slingshot rejection of the Red planet from the inner solar system early in its formation, stunting its own growth and removing debris to form a larger moon like our own.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s K2 Mission Discovers 95 New Extrasolar Planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 17, 2018
Astronomers using data from NASA’s extended Kepler mission, known as K2, have discovered 95 new exoplanets, with sizes ranging from mostly rocky super-Earths and fluffy mini-Neptunes to Jupiter-like gaseous giants.

By David Aragorn
A NASA Observatory Just Saw a Total Solar Eclipse … in Space!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2018
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured gorgeous views of a total solar eclipse on Sunday (Feb. 11), making the mission’s birthday even more special.

By David Aragorn
What will it take to go to Venus?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2018
Despite no go-ahead for missions, scientists are still trying to get to Earth’s evil twin

By David Aragorn
A Valentine ‘Rose’: Superhot Stars Glow in the Rosette Nebula’s Heart 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2018
Happy Valentine’s Day… from space!

By David Aragorn
‘Oumuamua had a violent past and has been tumbling around for billions of years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2018
The first discovered interstellar visitor to our solar system has had a violent past, which is causing it to tumble around chaotically, a Queen’s University Belfast scientist has discovered.

By David Aragorn
Two Asteroids Flew Safely Past Earth This Week 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2018
2018 CC and 2018 CB — two small asteroids recently discovered by NASA-funded astronomers — safely flew past our planet this week.

By David Aragorn
The first planets beyond the Milky Way may have been discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 10, 2018
The “rogue” worlds are said to be located 3.8 billion light-years away.

By David Aragorn