Space

Is there an ancient civilisation on Mars?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2016
UFO hunters claim to have found ‘walled cities’ in Nasa images

By David Aragorn
China’s First Astronaut Was ‘Spooked’ By Mysterious Knocking And Banging On His Capsule In Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2016
Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei made the revelation during a recent interview when he talked about the experiences of his 21-hour space mission aboard the Shenzhen 5 in 2003.

By David Aragorn
First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 1, 2016
By studying the light emitted from an extraordinarily dense and strongly magnetized neutron star using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers may have found the first observational indications of a strange quantum effect, first predicted in the 1930s. The polarization of the observed light suggests that the empty space around the neutron star is subject to a quantum effect known as vacuum birefringence.

By David Aragorn
Private moon rovers may visit the Apollo 17 landing site 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 1, 2016
German Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy

By David Aragorn
NASA spacecraft embarks on ring-skimming mission at Saturn 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 1, 2016
NASA’s Saturn-orbiting spacecraft, Cassini, has begun an unprecedented mission to skim the planet’s rings.

By David Aragorn
MESOSPHERIC BORE (IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK)0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2016
This month, a lot is happening in the mesosphere.

By David Aragorn
Are aliens trying to tell us something? Brightest burst of radio waves detected 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2016
The Parkes Observatory in Australia had detected the blip of radio waves, and everyone is trying to figure out what this signal could mean.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Uncover New Evidence for Life on Ancient Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2016
Pictures from NASA’s Spirit Rover suggest that ancient life on Mars may have been involved in the building of silica deposits.

By David Aragorn
Destination Moon? Belgium joins the space race 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2016
Soon Belgium will enter the space race as The Interfederal Space Agency of Belgium (ISAB), inspired by the popular comic-strip hero Tintin.

By David Aragorn
‘Thigh Bone’ on Mars Is Just Another Rock, NASA Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 25, 2016
A photo from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars set the Internet abuzz this week with claims that the robot had found a “thigh bone” on the Red Planet. But not so fast. That so-called bone? Just a weathered Martian rock, NASA says.

By David Aragorn