Space

Did life on Earth come from Space?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2018
It must have started somewhere.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Discovery Boosts Evidence for Planet Nine 1
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2018
Where is Planet 9? An asteroid might have given us a clue.

By David Aragorn
Remains of an Ancient Civilization Discovered on Mars by NASA’s Planet Surveyor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2018
Outlines of a House, Church and Graveyard, Helmet and Statue of a Giant Frog.

By David Aragorn
World’s ‘Most Advanced’ Camera Will Hunt for Alien Worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 23, 2018
A new type of camera developed by U.S. researchers will allow astronomers to directly image planets around nearby stars in the search for another Earth.

By David Aragorn
This is earth’s real first line of defense against asteroid strikes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 23, 2018
What do we have if a world-ending asteroid is heading straight for us?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s MarCO-B CubeSat Captures Earth-Moon Image 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2018
NASA’s MarCO-B spacecraft — one of two CubeSats accompanying the space agency’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander — used a fisheye camera to snap its first photo on May 9, 2018.

By David Aragorn
Multiverse Might Not Be as Inhospitable to Life as Previously Thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 16, 2018
Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbor life, are burning issues in modern cosmology. Now, new research — published in two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society — has shown that life could potentially be common throughout the Multiverse, if it exists; and the key to this is dark energy, a form of energy that naturally permeates all space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the Universe.

By David Aragorn
First 3-D map of a gas cloud in space shows it’s flat like a pancake 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Its newfound shape could explain why the structure is missing stars

By David Aragorn
Moon of Jupiter prime candidate for alien life after water blast found 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft flew through a giant plume of water that erupted from the icy surface of Europa, new analysis shows

By David Aragorn
Old NASA spacecraft points to new evidence of watery plumes over Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
A fresh look at data from a 1997 flyby of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, suggests that NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew directly through a watery plume, raising hopes of probing the jets for signs of life around the second planet from Earth.

By David Aragorn