space

Curiosity rover finds its crater was habitable for 700 million years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 10, 2017
And there are indications that groundwater persisted for far longer.

By David Aragorn
Strange cosmic radio burst pinned down to giant stellar nursery 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 9, 2017
Talk about rocking the cradle. Sharp new images have identified a throng of newborn stars as the source of a fast radio burst. The discovery strengthens the idea that these brief pulses of radio waves arise from newly formed neutron stars, super-dense objects just 20 kilometres across.

By David Aragorn
Do Stars Vanish Into a Black Hole or Crash Against a Surface? A New Test Answers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 8, 2017
Some have cast doubt about the existence of black hole event horizons from which nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull.

By David Aragorn
Black holes crash together and make waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 7, 2017
Three billion years ago, in a third of a second, two black holes crashed into each other and merged into a single entity, converting two solar masses into energy that shook the fabric of spacetime, sending gravitational ripples across the universe that were detected on Earth last January, researchers announced Thursday.

By David Aragorn
Study estimates amount of water needed to carve Martian valleys 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 7, 2017
Findings suggest Red Planet had ocean, active hydrologic cycle

By David Aragorn
We’ve just found the hottest planet ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 7, 2017
This gas giant gives “hot Jupiter” a whole new meaning.

By David Aragorn
A Potential “Planet X” Discovered by ALMA 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2017
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has discovered a new object very near Alpha Centauri in the sky.

By David Aragorn
LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2017
Three’s a party. The LIGO collaboration has made its third observation of gravitational waves emanating from a pair of merging black holes – giving us more insight into how these pairs form and building up our catalogue of them.

By David Aragorn
Scientists are trying to confirm the existence of a giant ringed planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2017
Fifty times the size of Jupiter.

By David Aragorn
‘Halos’ discovered on Mars widen time frame for potential life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2017
Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica—called “halos”—has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed.

By David Aragorn