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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
Astronomers use the music of the spheres to track TRAPPIST-1’s seventh planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 3, 2017
An international research team led by a University of Washington astronomer has worked out the intricate dance of seven planets circling an ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1, nailing down the coordinates of the outermost world in the process.

By David Aragorn
Rings and asteroids may explain ‘alien megastructure’ star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2017
It may not be aliens after all. A fresh model that might explain the so-called “alien megastructure” star evokes only natural phenomena, such as a ringed planet that puts Saturn to shame and clouds of comets that contain more mass than Jupiter.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s sun-kissing probe gets a hot new name 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2017
Everything you need to know about NASA’s plans to touch the sun.

By David Aragorn
Scientists imbue robots with curiosity 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2017
In a twist on artificial intelligence (AI), computer scientists have programmed machines to be curious—to explore their surroundings on their own and learn for the sake of learning.

By David Aragorn
Mars was probably habitable for longer than we thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2017
It was warm and wet right around the time life got its start on Earth.

By David Aragorn
Ancient Slingshot Was as Deadly as a .44 Magnum 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 2, 2017
An excavation in Scotland shows that Roman soldiers used lead ammo with lethal accuracy.

By David Aragorn