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Evidence for carbon-rich surface on Ceres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
Ceres offers insight into the synthesis, transport of organic matter in the inner solar system

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx finds signs of water on the asteroid Bennu 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
The craft will spend 2019 scoping out the best spot to grab a handful of space rock dust

By David Aragorn
Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
It’s the second probe ever to exit the heliosphere

By David Aragorn
Chang’e-4 Lunar probe is on its way to the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
Last week we talked about the Chinese Chang’e-4 lunar probe that China was set to launch to study the far side of the moon. The probe launched in the early hours of Saturday morning and that lunch went off without a hitch. China sent the probe towards the moon atop a Long March-3B rocket.

By David Aragorn
Sounds of Mars wind captured by Nasa’s InSight lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
Scientists celebrate recording low-frequency rumblings – ‘an unplanned treat’

By David Aragorn
Near-Earth asteroid removed from risk list 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 10, 2018
European Space Agency cancels 2026 collision risk – leaving just 794 possibilities. Andrew Masterson reports.

By David Aragorn
How NASA’s Mission to Bennu Will Keep Earth Safe from Asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 10, 2018
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission won’t just take pretty pictures of the asteroid Bennu—it will also help scientists learn whether the rock will one day threaten Earth.

By David Aragorn
InSight Lander Sending Back First Mars Photos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 8, 2018
After a long journey, it’s time to get to work.

By David Aragorn
Mesmerizing video shows what would happen if an asteroid crashed into Earth’s oceans 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 8, 2018
In films like Armageddon, Hollywood has tried (and failed) to take on the question of what would happen if a comet or asteroid plunged into the oceans on Earth, but what has scientific research actually determined it may look like?

By David Aragorn
Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2018
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses ‘negative mass.”

By David Aragorn