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Astronomers just discovered a Morse code message in the dunes of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 12, 2016
NASA has spotted a series of strange, dark dunes on Mars that look uncannily like the dots and dashes that make up Morse code.

By David Aragorn
Behind the scenes of protostellar disk formation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 12, 2016
Astrophysicists researching the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star HL Tauri discover revealing substructures within the disc that have never been seen before.

By David Aragorn
Mars canyons study adds clues about possible water 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2016
Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet’s largest canyon system.

By David Aragorn
Water Clouds Detected And Confirmed On Brown Dwarf In A System Far, Far Away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2016
Astronomers are revealing that they have found strong evidence of water clouds detected on a body outside of the solar system during the same week NASA celebrated the entry of their JUNO spacecraft into Jupiter’s orbit.

By David Aragorn
‘Frankenstein’ Galaxy Surprises Astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2016
About 250 million light-years away, there’s a neighborhood of our universe that astronomers had considered quiet and unremarkable. But now, scientists have uncovered an enormous, bizarre galaxy possibly formed from the parts of other galaxies.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers spot giant planet with 3 suns 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2016
‘This is a system for which I would not want to design a calendar’

By Around the Web Editor
Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2016
Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar system

By David Aragorn
This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2016
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers spy giant planet, three stars in odd celestial ballet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 7, 2016
Astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other ever found, one that loops widely around one star that is locked in a gravitational embrace with two others in a triple-star system, creating a curious celestial ballet.

By David Aragorn
Space junk cleanup mission prepares for launch 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 7, 2016
RemoveDebris operation will test a range of devices, including nets and harpoons, designed to sweep up litter orbiting Earth

By David Aragorn