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Nuclear In Space — The NETS Meeting 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2019
The NETS meeting is wrapping up today at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

By David Aragorn
Wine on Mars? The World’s Oldest Wine-Making Country Wants to Make It Happen 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2019
The first human colonists on Mars will have to forgo many of the creature comforts of Earth — things like enjoying an ozone layer, for example, or opting out of rearing genetically engineered Martian babies. Fortunately, one essential earthly amenity these hardscrabble colonists may not have to give up is wine.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Has A Gravestone In Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2019
We’re all still mourning NASA’s Opportunity rover, which the agency officially declared dead earlier this month following several months of radio silence in the wake of a heavy Martian dust storm that left Opportunity’s solar panels covered with a thick layer of red dust. But if it’s any consolation, the intrepid little rover has a fitting memorial out in the asteroid belt.

By David Aragorn
Computer servers ‘stranded’ in space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 28, 2019
A pair of Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers sent up to the International Space Station in August 2017 as an experiment have still not come back to Earth, three months after their intended return.

By David Aragorn
An Exploding Asteroid Blasted Across Mars’ Surface in the Last 10 Years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 28, 2019
Sometime in the last decade, something heavy slammed into the Martian atmosphere and shattered into a hard rain of superheated material. Those pieces fell to the Red Planet’s surface, dotting the Martian dirt with a pattern of pockmarks.

By David Aragorn
‘FarFarOut’: astronomer finds potential furthest object in solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 28, 2019
Mystery shrouds ‘very faint’ planetary body that appears to be 140 times further from the sun than Earth

By David Aragorn
TESS Discovers Pair of Warm Giant Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2019
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two ‘warm’ gas giants orbiting a nearby dwarf star.

By David Aragorn
Colliding neutron stars shot a light-speed jet through space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2019
An emerging consensus suggests the crash can explain distant gamma-ray bursts

By David Aragorn
Japanese asteroid hunter touches down 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 26, 2019
The Hayabusa2’s target – the asteroid named Ryugu – is thought to be as old as the solar system itself.

By David Aragorn
SOLAR EXPLOSION MISSES EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 26, 2019
On Feb. 24th, a magnetic filament on the sun became unstable and erupted. The blast hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. NOAA analysts have modeled the expanding storm cloud, and they say it will miss Earth. No geomagnetic storm will result from the explosion.

By David Aragorn