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Saturn’s rings could contain millions of ‘moonlets’, new Nasa images reveal 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 9, 2017
Images from the Cassini spacecraft are most detailed ever taken, and include previously unseen features within the rings.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sharpens Paradox of Ancient Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2017
Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet’s surface.

By David Aragorn
Galactic X-rays could point to dark matter proof 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2017
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark matter.

By David Aragorn
GREEN COMET APPROACHES EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2017
A small comet named “45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova” (45P for short) is approaching Earth. At closest approach on Feb. 11th, the comet will be 7.4 million miles from our planet, visible in binoculars and small telescopes.

By David Aragorn
Closest Earth-Size Planet May Get Robot Visitors—Here’s How 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 7, 2017
A proposed project would send soap-size spacecraft to orbit Proxima Centauri, offering enough time to study the star’s intriguing world.

By David Aragorn
The Zoo Hypothesis: Are aliens avoiding Earth?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2017
Where is everybody? Are we really alone out here, or are aliens avoiding us?

By David Aragorn
‘Ghost particles’ could improve understanding the universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 3, 2017
Trillions of neutrinos, or ghost particles, are passing through us every second. While scientists know this fact, they don’t know what role neutrinos play in the universe because they are devilishly hard to measure.

By David Aragorn
Moon found to be periodically showered with oxygen ions from Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2017
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan, examining data from that country’s moon-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft, has found evidence of oxygen from Earth’s atmosphere making its way to the surface of the moon for a few days every month.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a short propulsive maneuver Wednesday to refine its track toward a New Year’s Day 2019 flyby past 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) some 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Plasma tidal wave may tell us if black holes destroy information 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2017
A laser-driven tidal wave could test a question that has long plagued physics: is the information inside a black hole lost forever or somehow preserved through the mysterious machinations of quantum mechanics?

By David Aragorn