Space

Big black holes can settle in the outskirts of small galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 28, 2019
The first surveys of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies turn up surprises

By David Aragorn
Exotic matter uncovered in the sun’s atmosphere 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 27, 2019
Scientists from Ireland and France have announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun’s atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Humans on Mars could become a new species 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 25, 2019
An evolutionary biologist has outlined what is likely to happen when people start living full-time on Mars.

By David Aragorn
First satellites for Musk’s Starlink internet venture launched into orbit 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 25, 2019
SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit on Thursday for Musk’s new Starlink internet service.

By David Aragorn
Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into Red Planet’s history 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2019
Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars’ north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arizona.

By David Aragorn
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 23, 2019
New research explains how Earth became a habitable planet

By David Aragorn
In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2019
NASA hasn’t launched living creatures to deep space (on purpose) since 1972.

By David Aragorn
Is the Great Red Spot Unraveling?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2019
Around the world, amateur astronomers are monitoring a strange phenomenon on the verge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS).

By David Aragorn
7 things we’ve learned about Ultima Thule, the farthest place visited by humans 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 21, 2019
About a billion miles more distant than Pluto is Ultima Thule, a peanut-shaped object in the outer solar system that’s the farthest place ever visited by humans.

By David Aragorn
Shrinking moon may be generating moonquakes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2019
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as it shrinks down to a raisin, the Moon gets wrinkles as it shrinks. Unlike the flexible skin on a grape, the Moon’s surface crust is brittle, so it breaks as the Moon shrinks, forming “thrust faults” where one section of crust is pushed up over a neighboring part.

By David Aragorn