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Elon Musk: SpaceX can colonise Mars and build moon base 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2017
Musk says project codenamed BFR would also allow commercial travel to anywhere on Earth in under an hour

By David Aragorn
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to be Launched Spring 2019 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2017
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now is planning to launch between March and June 2019 from French Guiana, following a schedule assessment of the remaining integration and test activities. Previously Webb was targeted to launch in October 2018.

By David Aragorn
NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station near the moon. Here’s why.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 29, 2017
We all like having options.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Find Record-Breaking Oxygen-Deficient Galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2017
The oxygen level in J0811+4730, a star-forming dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, some 630 million light-years away, is the lowest yet discovered in any star-forming galaxy, according to an international team of astronomers from the University of Virginia and the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s asteroid chaser zips by Earth for gravity boost 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2017
An unmanned NASA spacecraft traveling to a distant asteroid veered toward Earth on Friday for a gravitational slingshot maneuver that will better aim it toward the Sun-orbiting space rock, Bennu, the US space agency said.

By David Aragorn
Australia to create national space agency 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 27, 2017
Australia on Monday committed to creating a national space agency as it looks to cash in on the lucrative and fast-evolving astronautical sector.

By David Aragorn
Gobekli Tepe Constellations 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2017
This is meant to provide a brief analysis to explain the origin of several of the animal figures from the Gobekli Tepe temple site in Turkey, arising about 9000 BC and haralded as the earliest (known) temple of the world.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious comet spotted a decade ago revealed to be two ‘dancing asteroids’ circling each other 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2017
New Hubble images have now revealed the object is actually two asteroids.

By David Aragorn
Europe withdraws from anti-asteroid mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2017
An upcoming mission designed to test out the deflection of a large asteroid has hit a bit of a snag.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Find New Evidence for Surface Water Ice at Mercury’s North Pole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2017
A new study led by Brown University planetary researchers adds three new large members to the list of water ice-filled craters near Mercury’s north pole and shows evidence that smaller-scale deposits scattered around the north pole; those deposits may be small, but they could add up to a lot more previously unaccounted-for ice.

By David Aragorn