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Building blocks of life found in famous Mars meteorite 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 5, 2020
And the organics contain nitrogen, another ingredient necessary for life as we know it.

By David Aragorn
The 2020 Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight! See ‘crumbs’ of Comet Halley rain on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 4, 2020
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight (May 4), with the best views arriving before dawn on Tuesday (May 5).

By David Aragorn
Researchers Find Nitrogen-Bearing Organics in Ancient Martian Meteorite 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 2, 2020
Four-billion-year-old carbonates in a Martian meteorite called Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 contain nitrogen-bearing organic molecules, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.

By David Aragorn
Mars’ magnetic field emerged earlier and lasted longer than previously thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 2, 2020
Mars’ ancient magnetic field emerged earlier and persisted for longer than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
The sun is less active than similar stars. That’s good news 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2020
The sun appears to be far less active than similar stars in terms of brightness variations caused by sunspots and other phenomena – a “boring” personality, according to scientists, that may not be a bad thing for us Earthlings.

By David Aragorn
Black hole dance partners blast out flares brighter than a trillion stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2020
After NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an intense flare, right on cue in 2019, astronomers can finally claim to have solved this mystery

By David Aragorn
A 30-pound piece of the moon is up for sale 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2020
A piece of the moon that’s bigger than the rocks Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth is up for sale at the famed Christie’s auction house.

By David Aragorn
Is space-time smooth or chunky?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2020
A new study tried to find out.

By David Aragorn
High-Inclination Centaur Asteroids Came from Interstellar Space: Study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 30, 2020
At least 17 high-inclination Centaurs and two trans-Neptunian objects were captured by the Solar System from the interstellar medium, according to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

By David Aragorn
A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 30, 2020
This stuff would have existed for thousands of years before disappearing.

By David Aragorn