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Did the Universe Boot Up with a “Big Bounce?”0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2016
The cosmos may have rebounded from an earlier contraction and “big crunch” into a “big bang” that started it all over again

By David Aragorn
‘The Lolladoff plate’ is a 12,000 year old stone dish found in Nepal 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 8, 2016
Shortly after World War II the polish professor Lolladoff showed a strange stonedisk to the english scientist Dr. Karyl Robin-Evans. Lolladoff claims to have bought the disk in Mussorie (Northern India) and that it is supposed to be from a mysterious people called the “Dzopa” who had used it for religious rituals.

By David Aragorn
Sun-Like Stars Generate Magnetic Field in Unexpected Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 5, 2016
Unusual X-ray emissions coming from four old red dwarf stars suggest these old fogeys have something in common with our sun: their magnetic fields are weakening over time, new research shows.

By David Aragorn
Fleet of robots could hunt for life on icy moon Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 5, 2016
Delicate space nets. Probes landing with the force of a bomb. Ice-burrowing tunnellers. These are a few of the robots poised to grab the baton from NASA’s Cassini orbiter in the search for alien life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s ISS Live Stream To Be Discontinued 0
- Featured Articles, Space
- August 4, 2016
That means all the space anomalies, like the countless Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or UAPs that UFO enthusiasts around the world capture and report on, will no longer be available for public scrutiny.

By Sid Goldberg
What’s Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2016
In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn’t visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres’ inner structure: Dawn’s own motion.

By David Aragorn
New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2016
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of Jupiter, condensing as ice, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers. The study reveals the freezing effects of Jupiter’s shadow during daily eclipses on the moon’s volcanic gases.

By David Aragorn
9 Incredible Photos of our Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2016
Space is beautiful. These are nine images of the most beautiful sights we have of space that people have taken pictures of.

By David Aragorn
How comets are born 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2016
Detailed analysis of data collected by Rosetta show that comets are the ancient leftovers of early Solar System formation, and not younger fragments resulting from subsequent collisions between other, larger bodies. Understanding how and when objects like Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko took shape is of utmost importance in determining how exactly they can be used to interpret

By David Aragorn
Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2016
Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful X-ray bursts. This song of X-rays, coming from a chorus of millions of black holes, fills the entire sky — a phenomenon astronomers call the cosmic X-ray background.

By David Aragorn