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SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE SOLAR ECLIPSE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2017
On Sunday, Feb. 26th, the Moon passed in front of the sun, off-center, transforming the solar disk into a crescent across much of Earth’s southern hemisphere.

By David Aragorn
An Enormous Exoplanet Is Having a Strange Influence on Its Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 24, 2017
There’s a star about 370 light-years from here that’s pulsating in response to its unusually heavy planetary companion. It’s the first time that astronomers have seen this sort of interaction between a planet and its host star.

By David Aragorn
There Are Organic Molecules on the Dwarf Planet Ceres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2017
That could tell us something really interesting about Earth.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX successfully lands its third Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 23, 2017
That’s eight landings now out of 14 attempts.

By David Aragorn
A GASH IN THE SUN’S ATMOSPHERE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2017
An unusually wide and sinuous hole has opened in the sun’s atmosphere, and it is stretching like a gash across the sun’s entire southern hemisphere.

By David Aragorn
NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2017
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star.

By David Aragorn
ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2017
It’s not a total eclipse, but it’s the next best thing.

By David Aragorn
NASA announces press conference over new exoplanet findings 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2017
NASA says it has some big news to tell the world.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 reaches for the stars after aborted launch, Dragon eyes encounter at ISS 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 22, 2017
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Sunday in an historic launch from a NASA pad, depositing a spacecraft into orbit before successfully returning to earth as Elon Musk’s SpaceX moved to stake its claim to shuttling humans into space.

By David Aragorn
Black holes are even stranger than you can imagine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 18, 2017
Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare “middleweight” black hole, a relative newcomer to the black hole family.

By David Aragorn