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Ghost particle travels 750 million light-years, ends up buried under the Antarctic ice 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- March 8, 2021
Why so late, little neutrino?

By David Aragorn
Eerie Stars of ‘Dark Matter’ May Be Behind Largest Gravitational Wave Detection Yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2021
On 21 May 2019, from a distance of 7 billion light-years away, our gravitational wave detectors were rocked by the most massive collision yet. From analysis of the signal, astronomers concluded that the detection was the result of two black holes smashing together, weighing in at 66 and 85 times the mass of the Sun respectively.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes on landing in test flight mishap 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2021
SpaceX launched a prototype Starship rocket Tuesday from its Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility, successfully sending the silver booster up to an altitude of about six miles as planned. But the unpiloted test flight ended with a spectacular explosion when the rocket failed to right itself and slow down enough for a tail-first landing.

By David Aragorn
White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2021
Astronomers are looking for the bones of dead planets inside the corpses of dead stars — and they may have just found some.

By David Aragorn
China’s Yutu 2 rover finds ‘milestone’ on far side of the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 26, 2021
This weird elongated rock shard could have been displaced by a meteor impact.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s Second ‘Moon’ Will Take a Final Lap Before Waving Bye-Bye to Us For Good 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 5, 2021
Earth’s second moon will make a close approach to the planet next week before drifting off into space, never to be seen again.

By David Aragorn
Is there life on Mars? Not if we destroy it with poor space hygiene 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2021
As countries begin an age of Martian exploration, planetary protection advocates insist we must be careful of interplanetary contamination

By David Aragorn
Why The ‘Happy Face Crater’ on Mars Is Happier Than Ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2021
Who has an even bigger grin than ten years ago? This goofy-looking crater on Mars.

By David Aragorn
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2020
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of a wide range of expertise available at the institute. One such project is the study of black holes that could have formed in the early universe, before stars and galaxies were born.

By David Aragorn
In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2020
Almost a millennium ago, a major upheaval occurred in Earth’s atmosphere: a giant cloud of sulphur-rich particles flowed throughout the stratosphere, turning skies dark for months or even years, before ultimately falling down to Earth.

By David Aragorn