space

How to Make Tools on Mars, Using Dust 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 2, 2017
You can’t carry everything you need from Earth, so researchers made 3-D–printed shapes with mocked-up Mars dust

By David Aragorn
Mars Trojans may be part of a planet that was destroyed long ago 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 29, 2017
Mars has an asteroid entourage, with nine so-called Trojans trailing in its wake. Now it seems these travelling companions all had the same violent beginning: as the innards of a mini-planet, eviscerated in a violent collision. Some remnants may even have been incorporated into the material that became Mars.

By David Aragorn
Did A Comet Impact Push Humans Into Technological Overdrive?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2017
A new study from the University of Edinburgh has linked comet activity to a period of cooling in Earth’s past.

By David Aragorn
Make Mars Livable with Asteroids: Researchers Propose Terraforming Plan 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2017
A research team has devised a plan to make a portion of Mars more Earth-like by slamming an asteroid into it.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided the Building Blocks for RNA 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2017
Life begins with a bang.

By David Aragorn
New Super-Earth May Be Best Yet for Finding Signs of Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 22, 2017
The potentially habitable world is close enough that existing telescopes could look for an atmosphere and sniff for traces of extraterrestrials.

By David Aragorn
Could Cubesats Trigger a Space Junk Apocalypse?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 22, 2017
The growing popularity of small satellites as well as the upcoming deployment of low-Earth orbit mega-constellations will likely greatly increase the amount of space junk as well as the frequency of catastrophic collisions, a study led by the United Kingdom’s University of Southampton suggests.

By David Aragorn
Some ‘Tatooine’ Alien Planets May Be Able to Support Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 21, 2017
Life on an alien planet with two suns in its sky, like Luke Skywalker’s home world Tatooine in the “Star Wars” films, may indeed be possible, a new study suggests.

By David Aragorn
Scientists measure brightness of the universe with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 21, 2017
Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.

By David Aragorn
Forget About Terraforming Mars. Here’s Why.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 21, 2017
The Red Planet lacks a source of carbon dioxide that could transform its thin, cold atmosphere into something resembling conditions on Earth.

By David Aragorn