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LOST ASTEROID RETURNS TO EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Almost 8 years ago, the Catalina Sky Survey discovered an asteroid as wide as a football field.

By David Aragorn
Ancient, Exiled Asteroid Discovered Beyond Neptune 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2018
Astronomers have spotted a carbon-rich asteroid in the icy region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt — the first such asteroid ever found exiled from the inner solar system.

By David Aragorn
An asteroid that nobody knew was coming flew very, very close to our planet. Gulp.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 14, 2018
An asteroid that nobody knew was coming whizzed by us a few weeks ago.

By David Aragorn
ICE AGE WARNING: Sunspots begin to disappear from Sun as Earth braces for cold snap 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 12, 2018
FEWER and fewer sunspots are appearing on the Sun as ball of fire prepares to go into a solar minimum which could lead to a mini Ice Age.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX’s latest upgrade aims to make rockets even more reusable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2018
Today’s launch will mark the debut of a slightly different rocket, called Falcon 9 Block 5, that SpaceX has crafted to more quickly send an already used rocket back into space

By David Aragorn
Astronomers observe star reborn in a flash 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2018
An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study stellar evolution in real time.

By David Aragorn
ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2018
We may soon be on our way to Venus. A mission to our neighbouring planet is one of three finalists in the running to be the European Space Agency’s (ESA) next mission in its Cosmic Vision programme.

By David Aragorn
Reconnection tames the turbulent magnetic fields around Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2018
When the solar wind – which is really a driving rain of charged particles from the sun – strikes Earth’s protective magnetic field, the shock generates roiling, turbulent magnetic fields that enshroud the planet and stretch for hundreds of thousands of miles.

By David Aragorn
Helium Detected in Atmosphere of Exoplanet for First Time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2018
An international team of astronomers has detected helium — the second-most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen — in the atmosphere of WASP-107b, a super-Neptune exoplanet approximately 200 light-years away in the Virgo constellation. This is the first time this inert gas has been detected in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.

By David Aragorn
Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 9, 2018
ESO telescopes find first confirmed carbon-rich asteroid in Kuiper Belt

By David Aragorn