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Asteroids that could wipe out an entire CONTINENT are hidden by the Taurids meteor shower, astronomers claim 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 25, 2017
European academics say Taurids are a ‘very real source of potentially hazardous’ space rocks

By David Aragorn
Largest-ever simulations help uncover the history of the galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 25, 2017
Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of galaxies like our Milky Way.

By David Aragorn
SPRITE SEASON BEGINS 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 25, 2017
High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances at the edge of space.

By David Aragorn
Something Weird Is Happening to the ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2017
Tabby’s star, famous for its inexplicable dips in brightness, is going through one of those dips right now.

By David Aragorn
Naked singularity might evade cosmic censor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2017
Spacetime singularities might exist unhidden in strangely curved universes

By David Aragorn
Distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2017
In 2016, researchers published “slam dunk” evidence, based on iron-60 isotopes in ancient seabed, that supernovae buffeted the Earth — one of them about 2.6 million years ago. University of Kansas researcher Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, supported those findings in Nature with an associated letter, titled “Supernovae in the neighborhood.”

By David Aragorn
Scientists just heard something really weird in space, and can’t figure out where it came from 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2017
Researchers from around the world are scratching their heads over a newly discovered radio burst detected on Earth, but with a completely unknown origin.

By David Aragorn
Comet 67P Found to Be Producing Its Own Oxygen in Deep Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2017
The finding shows that oxygen can be generated in space without the need for life, and could influence how researchers search for signs of life on exoplanets.

By David Aragorn
An Asteroid May Kill Us All. Congress Is Pinching Pennies.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 19, 2017
Spending $50 million a year is a pittance in terms of managing this existential risk.

By David Aragorn
The Search for Life on Mars Is about to Get Weird 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 18, 2017
Astrobiologists ponder sending gene sequencers, weather stations, drilling rigs and more to the Red Planet

By David Aragorn