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Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2016
How did life start on Earth? Scientists believe that the solar flares from the sun four billion years ago was enough to trigger a spark of life.

By David Aragorn
The Images From India’s First Ever Space Shuttle Launch Are Astonishing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2016
It’s a huge milestone for India and for the growth of reusable spacecraft worldwide.

By Around the Web Editor
Hiding From Hostile Aliens Is Pointless, They Already Know We’re Here Warns Expert 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 24, 2016
The only thing we can do now is try to make a good first impression.

By Around the Web Editor
ASASSN’s creed—a surprising ultraviolet rebrightening observed in a superluminous supernova 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
ASASSN-15lh is the name given to the hypernovae that was viewed by a team of astronomers. They watch as the explosion brightens the area to an absolute brightness.

By David Aragorn
Pluto’s ‘Fretted’ Terrain 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
New Horizons gives us a picture of Pluto’s surface, and the area is ‘fretted’.

By David Aragorn
New Hubble Portrait of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
Our red neighboring planet is not as red as we think as Hubble takes a picture that gives us a better view of Mars.

By David Aragorn
How to get the BEST view of MARS in 2016 0
- Featured Articles, Space
- May 20, 2016
As Earth catches up to Mars in its orbit, the Red Planet will appear to halt its nightly eastward motion and move westward (in retrograde) into Libra from April 17 through August 17 before moving rapidly eastward again for the rest of 2016.

By Around the Web Editor
Faintest early-universe galaxy ever, detected and confirmed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
Astronomers have discovered the youngest galaxy ever born.

By David Aragorn
Van Allen Probes reveal long-term behavior of Earth’s ring current 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
New findings based on a year’s worth of observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current – an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet – behaves in a much different way than previously understood.

By David Aragorn
Huge Fireball over Northeastern US 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 19, 2016
690 Reports The AMS has received nearly 700 reports so far about a fireball event over Northeastern US on May 17th 2016 around 12:50am EDT (4:50 UT). The fireball was seen primarily from Maine but witnesses from Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada) also

By David Aragorn