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Senate restores funding for NASA Earth science and satellite servicing programs 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2017
NASA’s Restore-L mission would develop satellite servicing technology and refuel the Landsat 7 spacecraft.

By David Aragorn
Has Cassini found a universal driver for prebiotic chemistry at Titan?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2017
The international Cassini-Huygens mission has made a surprising detection of a molecule that is instrumental in the production of complex organics within the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.

By David Aragorn
“Extinction by Ice” –Massive Comets From Oort Belt More Common Threat to Earth Than Previously Thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2017
“Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big,” said Amy Mainzer, co-author based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and principal investigator of the NEOWISE mission. “Studies like this will help us define what kind of hazard long-period comets may pose.”

By David Aragorn
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2017
Worlds with a permanent day and night side aren’t obvious places to look in the search for extraterrestrial life. Apart from having extremes of temperature, such planets would make it hard for a biological clock to get going.

By David Aragorn
Are Mars’ Trojan Asteroids Pieces of the Red Planet?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2017
The Trojan asteroids that follow Mars in its orbit might have come from the planet itself, blown off in an ancient impact rather than being late arrivals, a new study suggests.

By David Aragorn
Yes, ancient civilizations on Mars sound crazy. And yet…0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2017
If such civilizations really existed in the past, could we find them today?

By David Aragorn
Scientists Spot Water-Rich Rocks on Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 27, 2017
Data from an Indian lunar orbiter hints at substantial water in the lunar interior

By David Aragorn
More hints of Martian hot springs may hold promise for Mars 2020 mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 27, 2017
One potential landing site appears to have ridges that hint at past hydrothermal activity

By David Aragorn
Why NASA is freezing the Hubble Space Telescope’ s successor ahead of 2018 launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2017
The super-sized successor to NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope is more than a year away from deploying its massive two-storey tall, gold-plated mirrors in the harshness of deep space. That’s why scientists are busy freezing the US$9 billion, 6,200 kilogram spacecraft to see if they can break it here on Earth.

By David Aragorn
MASSIVE EXPLOSION ON THE FARSIDE OF THE SUN 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2017
On Sunday July 23rd, a spectacular CME emerged from the farside of the sun.

By David Aragorn