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Alien star streaked through our solar system and jostled its contents, scientists say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2018
Ten thousand simulations of object’s potential orbits show 98 per cent likelihood it passed through inner Oort cloud

By David Aragorn
China says space station burns up over South Pacific 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2018
China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.

By David Aragorn
Image: Proba-1 pyramid spotting 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2018
A view looking north to south of Egypt’s famous Giza Pyramid Complex, as seen by ESA’s Proba-1 minisatellite.

By David Aragorn
Hubble uses cosmic lens to discover most distant star ever observed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2018
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered. The hot blue star existed only 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. This discovery provides new insight into the formation and evolution of stars in the early Universe, the constituents of galaxy clusters and also on the nature of dark matter.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Find Super-Earth with Mercury-Like Composition: K2-229b 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2018
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type dwarf star K2-229. What’s the most intriguing is that one of these extrasolar planets is a super-Earth class object with a Mercury-like composition.

By David Aragorn
Why a galaxy with no dark matter could make it hard to prove there’s no dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2018
What’s the matter with dark matter?

By David Aragorn
Kepler Captures Details of Unusual Stellar Explosion: FELT Supernova 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2018
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has caught a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient (FELT) in the act.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid-bound spacecraft finds signs of life—on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2018
A camera onboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Pacific Ocean, Baja California in Mexico, and parts of the southwestern United States. The dark lines are missing data caused by short exposure times

By David Aragorn
CHINA’S DOOMED SPACE STATION 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 27, 2018
China’s Tiangong-1 space station is about to return to Earth–as a massive fireball.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Space Telescope Observes NGC 5714 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 27, 2018
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 5714.

By David Aragorn