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Marsquakes reveal the Red Planet boasts a liquid core half its diameter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2021
Data from NASA’s InSight lander also hint at the thickness of the planet’s crust

By David Aragorn
Jeff Bezos offers Nasa $2bn in exchange for moon mission contract 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2021
Bezos claims Nasa’s decision will delay moon mission

By David Aragorn
Largest known comet is heading close enough to us to become visible 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 27, 2021
Astronomers have discovered the largest known comet, and it’s about a thousand times more massive than others.

By David Aragorn
Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- July 27, 2021
Are there intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations capable of building technologies that can travel between the stars? An international research project is poised to find out.

By David Aragorn
Meteor lights up the night in Norway 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2021
An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.

By David Aragorn
Marsquakes reveal the anatomy of the Red Planet’s interior 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2021
Seismic waves from quakes detected by NASA’s robotic InSight lander have helped scientists decipher the anatomy of Mars, including the first estimates of the size of its large liquid metal core, thickness of its crust, and nature of its mantle.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find Evidence Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Caused Mile-High Tsunami 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- July 22, 2021
The hidden fragment, dating as old as 1.3 billion years, is helping scientists trace the history of the mysterious “lost continent” of Zealandia.

By David Aragorn
Elon Musk’s SpaceX a Step Closer to Mars As Starship’s Super Heavy Booster Test a Success 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2021
SpaceX has successfully conducted a three-engine “static fire” test on the third iteration of its Super Heavy booster, one of the key components behind its ambitions for interplanetary travel.

By David Aragorn
Want to see ‘fireballs’ light up the sky? Here’s how to catch the Perseid meteor shower 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 20, 2021
Gaze upon the night sky as the best meteor shower of the year makes its annual return.

By David Aragorn
U.S. approves Blue Origin license for human space travel ahead of Bezos flight 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2021
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it approved a Blue Origin license to carry humans on the New Shepard launch system into space.

By David Aragorn