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Going Back to the Moon Won’t Break the Bank, NASA Chief Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 1, 2018
Sending humans back to the moon won’t require a big Apollo-style budget boost, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

By David Aragorn
Water worlds could support life, study says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 1, 2018
Scientists challenges idea that life requires ‘Earth clone’

By David Aragorn
Bigfoot is having a moment. Turns out NC is a hot bed of Sasquatch fans.0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- September 1, 2018
On Sept. 8, the foothills town of Marion will host the state’s biggest-ever Bigfoot festival, a sasquatch tribute expected to draw thousands.

By David Aragorn
Did a Micrometeoroid Poke a Hole in the Space Station?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2018
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station spent part of their day today (Aug. 30) fixing a tiny air leak in a Soyuz capsule docked to the station.

By David Aragorn
Hubble observes energetic lightshow at Saturn’s north pole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2018
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have taken a series of spectacular images featuring the fluttering auroras at the north pole of Saturn. The observations were taken in ultraviolet light and the resulting images provide astronomers with the most comprehensive picture so far of Saturn’s northern aurora.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Operations Campaign 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2018
After an almost two-year journey, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target. Kicking off the mission’s asteroid operations campaign on Aug. 17, the spacecraft’s PolyCam camera obtained the image from a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km).

By David Aragorn
Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2018
Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully steer asteroids into Earth’s atmosphere and mine them for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?

By David Aragorn
‘Pyramid of eyes’ discovered at heart of 4300-year-old city in northern China 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 31, 2018
The ruins were thought to be an unexcavated portion of China’s famous Great Wall. But a recent examination has unearthed something much, much older.

By David Aragorn
How a NASA Scientist Looks in the Depths of the Great Red Spot to Find Water on Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 30, 2018
For centuries, scientists have worked to understand the makeup of Jupiter.

By David Aragorn
Scientists identify a new kind of human brain cell 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 30, 2018
‘Rosehip’ neurons not found in rodents, may be involved in fine-level control between regions of the human brain

By David Aragorn

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