Space

China’s Mars rover outlasts its life expectancy, keeps on going 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 21, 2021
The more Mars rovers, the merrier.

By David Aragorn
There’s a Wobble in the Moon’s Orbit. That’s Not Good.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 20, 2021
The quirk could cause unprecedented coastal flooding next decade.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers see galaxies in ultra-high definition 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 20, 2021
Astronomers have captured some of the most detailed images ever seen of galaxies in deep space.

By David Aragorn
See some of the most intriguing photos from NASA’s Perseverance rover so far 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 20, 2021
Six months ago, the craft started sending back never-before-seen views of the Red Planet

By David Aragorn
Black holes could give away their size by their ‘messy eating’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 19, 2021
Astronomers think they have a new way to calculate the size of supermassive black holes: by studying the feeding patterns of these invisible giants.

By David Aragorn
Milky Way Galaxy Has 3,000 Light-Year-Long String of Stars Poking Out of It: ‘Remarkable’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 19, 2021
Astronomers have discovered a splinter of stars and gas sticking out of the Milky Way Galaxy that is around 3,000 light-years long.

By David Aragorn
Russia Claims NASA Astronaut Had Mental Breakdown in Space, Damaged Equipment to Go Home Early 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 18, 2021
It’s a bizarre smear campaign.

By David Aragorn
NASA recalculates the odds (low, whew!) of asteroid Bennu striking Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 18, 2021
Mark the date: 24 September 2182. That’s the day, according to a study released today, that a half-kilometer-wide asteroid called Bennu—recently visited by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft—has the greatest chance of colliding with Earth in the next 300 years. The researchers behind the NASA-sponsored study emphasize that the risk of an impact remains very small—one in 2700, or 0.037%—and that, armed with the wealth of data from OSIRIS-REx’s 2 years orbiting the asteroid, they now know much more about it and the risk it poses.

By David Aragorn
Saturn’s rippling rings point to massive, soupy core hidden inside 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 18, 2021
The findings might challenge established models of the formation of gas giants.

By David Aragorn
Hidden Magnetic Patterns Inside Meteorites Reveal Secrets of The Early Solar System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 17, 2021
The Solar System is positively lousy with magnetic fields. They drape around (most of) the planets and their moons, which interact with the system-wide magnetic field swirling out from the Sun.

By David Aragorn