Space

Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.

By David Aragorn
First ‘image’ of a dark matter web that connects galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

By David Aragorn
The Mystery of How Black Holes Collide and Merge Is Beginning to Unravel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
A new study pursues a kind of “paleontology” for gravitational waves in an attempt to explain how and why black holes collide and merge.

By David Aragorn
Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.

By David Aragorn
The Surface of Saturn’s Titan is Electrically Charged –“It’s a Strange, Electrostatically Sticky World”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2017
“Titan’s extreme physical environment requires scientists to think differently about what we’ve learned of Earth’s granular dynamics,” said Josef Dufek, with the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Landforms are influenced by forces that aren’t intuitive to us because those forces aren’t so important on Earth. Titan is a strange, electrostatically sticky world.” Visually, Titan is the

By David Aragorn
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2017
Mars’s atmosphere harbours a layer of electrically charged metal atoms, and they’re not behaving as expected.

By David Aragorn
Atmosphere containing water detected around rocky exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
An Earth-sized planet orbiting a dim star 39 light years away has a hazy atmosphere that could indicate the presence of a “water world”.

By David Aragorn
New Evidence Shows We Might Have Gotten Cosmic Evolution Entirely Wrong 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
The discovery of ZF-COSMOS-20115 is challenging our long-established assumptions about how galaxies form. The “red and dead” galaxy demonstrates just how little we still understand of how the universe began.

By David Aragorn
Clinoforms in Melas Chasma 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
In this image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a group of steeply inclined light-toned layers is bounded above and below by unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another) that indicate a “break” where erosion of pre-existing layers was taking place at a higher rate than deposition of new materials.

By David Aragorn
Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
Mars can blame Jupiter for its small stature. The Red Planet may be much smaller than we expect because Jupiter’s gravity beat it up as it was forming.

By David Aragorn