Space

Walking With Venus’ Wind 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 22, 2017
The hellishly hot planet fries spacecraft electronics, so NASA scientists devised a machine inspired by ancient technology.

By David Aragorn
US Government Issues NASA Demand, ‘Get Humans to Mars By 2033’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 22, 2017
With a budget $19.508 billion, will NASA be able to get people onto the red neighboring planet?

By David Aragorn
An almost impossible engineering project lets us time travel to the start of the universe 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 21, 2017
Time travel is possible, in a way.

By David Aragorn
Potential life could have spread with relative ease amongst newly-discovered group of seven exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 21, 2017
The odds of life spreading between the worlds of the newly-discovered seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system are up to 1,000 times greater than in our own solar system. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis posted March 2 to the arXiv, an online repository of scientific papers.

By David Aragorn
Briny Ice Oozes in Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Ice Volcanoes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 21, 2017
On the dwarf planet Ceres, volcanoes rage — but instead of hot lava coming out of them as on Earth, they spew brine and ice.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Discovery of Runaway Star Yields Clues to Breakup of Multiple-Star System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 20, 2017
As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England’s throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star war far away in the Orion Nebula.

By David Aragorn
The radical NASA plan to turn the SUN into a giant ‘magnifying glass’ to look for alien worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 18, 2017
Scientists have devised a radical plan to use the sun as a massive telescope, tapping into an effect known as gravitational lensing to view alien worlds in ultra-high resolution.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Witnesses Massive Comet-Like Object Pollute Atmosphere of a White Dwarf 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 17, 2017
For the first time, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup of a comet being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the burned-out remains of a compact star.

By David Aragorn
Alien Life Planet-Jumping? Scientists Pitch Trappist-1 Panspermia Probability 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 17, 2017
The prospect of discovering alien life on any one — or several — of the Trappist-1 planets has captivated the imaginations of the people of Earth since NASA broke the news of the red dwarf star’s treasure trove of Earth-sized worlds, not to mention the fact that three — and later four — of the seven planets were located within the star’s habitable zone. And now, a study has emerged presenting the probability with which alien life might have prospered within the Trappist-1 planetary system through panspermia (that is, moving from world to world via collision and or ejecta transference).

By David Aragorn
Relativistic Electrons Uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen Probes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 16, 2017
Earth’s radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years ago, but their behavior is still not completely understood.

By David Aragorn