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Some Stars Around Galaxy May Be From Elsewhere 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 18, 2018
Data from the Gaia satellite reveal 20 new high-speed stars, 13 of which appear to have originated outside of the Milky Way.

By David Aragorn
Plant hormone makes space farming a possibility 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 18, 2018
With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants’ growth — even under the challenging conditions found in space.

By David Aragorn
COMING SOON, THE COMET OF THE YEAR 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 18, 2018
Astronomers are calling Comet 46P/Wirtanen the “comet of the year.”

By David Aragorn
Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2018
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope uncover a cosmic titan lurking in the early Universe

By David Aragorn
Earth Dodges a Meteor Storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2018
On Oct. 8-9, Europeans outdoors around midnight were amazed when a flurry of faint meteors filled the sky.

By David Aragorn
What’s the difference between a comet and an asteroid?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2018
They both orbit the sun, but they’re very different.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Twenty New Fast Radio Bursts 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 16, 2018
Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory have nearly doubled the known number of fast radio bursts — mysterious and rarely detected bursts of energy from space. The team’s discoveries, reported in the journal Nature, include the closest and brightest fast radio bursts ever detected.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe About to Leave Solar System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2018
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside the Solar System. Currently, the probe is approximately 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Every NASA Mission Should Be Looking for Alien Life, Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2018
Searching for signs of alien life should be part of every future NASA mission, researchers wrote in a new report.

By David Aragorn
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 12, 2018
A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS).

By David Aragorn