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Tiny Satellites Are the Future of Space Exploration 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2020
The future of space exploration might be through tiny satellites that can fit in the palm of your hand.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find evidence of ‘ghost population’ of ancient humans 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 14, 2020
Traces of unknown ancestor emerged when researchers analysed genomes from west African populations

By David Aragorn
Asteroid experts catch final glimpse of Solar Orbiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2020
Last night, ESA’s Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped our planet’s gravity, in contrast to their normal objects of study—potentially hazardous rocks that could strike it.

By David Aragorn
Supercharged light pulverises asteroids, study finds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2020
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer

By David Aragorn
In a Single Grain of Moon Dust, ‘Millions of Years’ of Lunar History 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2020
Researchers can now analyze precious samples of lunar rock atom by atom

By David Aragorn
Scientists reveal strange ‘golf ball’ asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2020
Scientists have discovered an asteroid with such a strange surface that they have named it the “golf ball”.

By David Aragorn
Ancient Genes Reveal The Last Mammoths on Earth Were a Sickly Mess 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 13, 2020
Four thousand years ago, the last woolly mammoths quietly died on their final bastion – the isolated Wrangel Island, north of Russia in the frozen Arctic. Their demise was sudden, and strange; now, new evidence points to the mammoths themselves as partial agents of their own demise.

By David Aragorn
Canadian telescope hears mystery radio signal repeating every 16 days 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 12, 2020
Something — or someone — has its deep-space music on repeat.

By David Aragorn
Someone Turned 50,000 Hours of UFO Podcasts Into a Searchable Database 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 11, 2020
Over the last seven months, this ufologist set auto-transcription software to work on transcribing two million pages of UFO-related podcasts and videos.

By David Aragorn
Solar Orbiter: ESA, NASA Successfully Launch New Mission to Study Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 11, 2020
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to study our Sun, launched at 05:03 CET on February 10, 2020 (11:03 p.m. EST on February 9) on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. At 06:03 CET (12:24 a.m. EST), mission controllers at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal from the spacecraft indicating that its solar panels had successfully deployed. In the first two days after launch, Solar Orbiter will deploy its instrument boom and several antennas that will communicate with Earth and gather scientific data.

By David Aragorn

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