Space

Asteroid-sampling mission zeroes in on tiny space rock 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2018
US spacecraft aims to return the largest trove of space dirt to Earth since NASA’s final Apollo mission in the 1970s.

By David Aragorn
Scientists’ collection of gravitational waves just got a lot bigger 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 5, 2018
Scientists added 4 new sets of spacetime ripples to their inventory

By David Aragorn
The International Space Station is crawling with bacteria and some may be harmful 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2018
Don’t worry, no one has gotten sick yet.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Create Global Thermal Maps of Jupiter’s Moon Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2018
A new series of daytime images of Europa from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has helped astronomers create first global thermal maps of this icy moon.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has finally arrived at asteroid Bennu 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2018
Scientists hope the probe will reveal if such space rocks helped kick-start life on Earth

By David Aragorn
Astronomers measure total starlight emitted over 13.7bn years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 1, 2018
Stars have radiated 4×10^84 photons since the universe begun with formation peaking 11bn years ago

By David Aragorn
Watch NASA arrive at the asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2018
NASA’s asteroid-chaser will reach its target, Bennu, on Dec. 3 and you don’t want to miss a thing.

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover new ‘pinwheel’ star system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2018
An international team of scientists has discovered a new, massive star system — one that also challenges existing theories of how large stars eventually die.

By David Aragorn
InSight Successfully Lands on Mars, Sends First Images 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2018
After an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458 million km) journey from Earth, NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down Monday, November 26, 2018, near Mars’ equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at approximately 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST, 8 p.m. GMT). The landing signal was relayed via one of NASA’s two small experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats.

By David Aragorn
A HYPERACTIVE COMET IS APPROACHING EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2018
Small but hyperactive Comet 46P/Wirtanen is approaching Earth and could soon become visible to the naked eye.

By David Aragorn