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Our sun might have been born with an evil twin called ‘Nemesis’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2017
The family isn’t close.

By David Aragorn
Mining the Heavens: Astronomers Could Spot Asteroid Prospects 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2017
Smithsonian astrophysicist Martin Elvis would like to see astronomers take on a crucial role for future asteroid mining: as astronomical prospectors scoping out the next big catch.

By David Aragorn
Scientists use meteorites to show that Jupiter is almost as old as the solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2017
Jupiter may have been a very early bloomer, gaining significant mass within the first million years of the solar system’s birth, according to a new analysis of meteorite fragments.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Collision May Have Tipped Saturn’s Moon Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2017
Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn that could host life, may have tipped over long ago.

By David Aragorn
Czech scientists see growing risk of asteroid hitting Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2017
The risk is growing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, Czech astronomers said on Tuesday.

By David Aragorn
Supermassive Black Holes May Be Pulling The Atmosphere Off Planets And Making Them Uninhabitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2017
Scientists have discovered black holes may be doing more damage to their surroundings than originally thought.

By David Aragorn
Black holes swallow stars whole according to new study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 14, 2017
Observations suggest that black holes swallow doomed stars whole, increasing the mystery surrounding these celestial monsters

By David Aragorn
After LIGO detects a third black hole collision, gravitational wave astronomy is here to stay 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2017
Scientists on the lookout for subtle disturbances in the fabric of space-time have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie some 3 billion light-years away, much farther two previous discoveries.

By David Aragorn
Dark Energy May Lurk in the Nothingness of Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2017
A new study may help reveal the nature of dark energy, the mysterious substance that is pushing the universe to expand outward. Dark energy may emerge from fluctuations in the nothingness of empty space, a new hypothesis suggests.

By David Aragorn
Planet is ‘hotter than most stars’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2017
Scientists have found a hellish world where the “surface” of the planet is over 4,000C – almost as hot as our Sun.

By David Aragorn