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Toyota unveils manned lunar rover concept 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 15, 2019
The automotive giant has designed a new pressurized vehicle that astronauts can drive around on the moon.

By David Aragorn
ALMA observes the formation sites of solar-system-like planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2019
Researchers have spotted the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust around the star, at distances comparable to the asteroid belt and the orbit of Neptune in our Solar System, suggest that we are witnessing the formation of a planetary system similar to our own.

By David Aragorn
Small asteroid to sweep closer than moon’s distance 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 14, 2019
The house-sized asteroid – designated 2019 EA2 – will pass safely by our planet on the night of March 21-22, 2019.

By David Aragorn
NASA considering flying Orion on commercial launch vehicles 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 13, 2019
NASA is considering moving the Orion spacecraft that was to fly on the first Space Launch System mission to a commercial rocket to keep that mission on schedule for mid-2020.

By David Aragorn
What scientists found after sifting through dust in the solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 13, 2019
Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it’s often in rings. Several dust rings circle the Sun. The rings trace the orbits of planets, whose gravity tugs dust into place around the Sun, as it drifts by on its way to the center of the solar system.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Bennu, target of NASA’s sample return mission, is rotating faster over time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 13, 2019
In late 2018, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at Bennu, the asteroid it will be studying and sampling over the next several years.

By David Aragorn
Kepler Space Telescope’s first exoplanet candidate confirmed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2019
An international team of astronomers, led by University of Hawaii graduate student Ashley Chontos, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate identified by NASA’s Kepler Mission. The result was presented at the fifth Kepler/K2 Science Conference held in Glendale, CA.

By David Aragorn
Proposed NASA SmallSat Mission Could Be First To Visit Pallas, Our Third Largest Asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2019
Pallas, our solar system’s third largest and wholly unexplored asteroid, is the target for a potential SmallSat NASA flyby mission for possible launch in 2022. This remnant protoplanet, in fact, remains the largest unexplored planetary body inside the orbit of Neptune.

By David Aragorn
If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 11, 2019
Despite what Hollywood tells us, stopping an asteroid from creating an extinction-level event by blowing it up may not work.

By David Aragorn
Merging magnetic blobs fuel the sun’s huge plasma eruptions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 9, 2019
Before coronal mass ejections, plasma shoots up, breaks apart and then comes together again.

By David Aragorn