Space

Spacewalk Reassignments: What’s the Deal?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 30, 2019
On Friday, March 29, Christina Koch and Anne McClain were scheduled to perform a spacewalk together to upgrade the power systems of the International Space Station.

By David Aragorn
Researchers find that the sun’s magnetic field is ten times stronger than previously believed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 30, 2019
The sun’s magnetic field is ten times stronger than previously believed, new research from Queen’s University Belfast and Aberystwyth University has revealed.

By David Aragorn
Deep groundwater may generate surface streams on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2019
New research suggests that deep groundwater could still be active on Mars and could originate surface streams in some near-equatorial areas on Mars.

By David Aragorn
The president wants NASA back on the moon by 2024—a risky and unrealistic request 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2019
We’ll need more money, more time, or both.

By David Aragorn
A Giant 1,115-Foot Asteroid Just Skimmed Past Earth On Its Closest-Ever Approach 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2019
The asteroid is estimated to be twice as big as the Pyramid of Khufu in Giza and will return for another visit 16 years from now.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s unknown journey revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2019
It is known that gas giants around other stars are often located very near their sun. According to accepted theory, these gas planets were formed far away and subsequently migrated to an orbit closer to the star.

By David Aragorn
Evidence of a real ninth planet discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2019
Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Detects Migrating Water on Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 27, 2019
Using data from the LAMP (Lyman Alpha Mapping Project) instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary researchers have observed water molecules moving around the dayside of the Moon.

By David Aragorn
Ultima Thule may be a frankenworld 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 27, 2019
Astronomers are closer to uncovering the distant space rock’s origin story

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Surprise Discovery on Bennu Just Changed What We Know About Asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 26, 2019
A shock discovery is in from Bennu. The NASA spacecraft analysing the asteroid has observed it shooting out plumes of dust that surround it in a dusty haze – a phenomenon we’ve never seen in an asteroid before.

By David Aragorn