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Top Conspiracy Theories Around the World 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, UFO News
- December 30, 2020
Online searches reveal the top conspiracy theories in each country!

By David Aragorn
Here are the highlights from a busy year in space launches 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2020
So many things launched into space this year: Six humans traveled aboard commercial crew vehicles, three spacecraft began journeys to Mars and several hundred distractingly shiny satellites took to the sky.

By David Aragorn
Short-Period Hot Jupiter Discovered Circling HAT-P-68 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2020
Astronomers using data from the HATNet (Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network) survey have discovered a transiting giant planet orbiting the K5-type dwarf star HAT-P-68.

By David Aragorn
Starwatch: wildly twinkling Sirius outshines the sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2020
Search out the brightest star in the night sky and its parent constellation

By David Aragorn
How future spacecraft might handle tricky landings on Venus or Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2020
Fan-powered descents and nimble landing legs are just two ideas for touching down safely

By David Aragorn
The world’s oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about ‘seven sisters’ stars may reach back 100,000 years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2020
In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters”. Look carefully and you will probably count six stars. So why do we say there are seven of them?

By David Aragorn
NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in ‘Dance of Avoidance’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2020
Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune’s two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.

By David Aragorn
These science claims from 2020 could be big news if confirmed 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2020
Findings in need of more proof include potential signs of life on Venus and Earth’s oldest parasites

By David Aragorn
Ancient DNA sheds light on the peopling of the Mariana Islands 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 28, 2020
To reach the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, humans crossed more than 2,000 kilometers of open ocean, and around 2,000 years earlier than any other sea travel over an equally long distance. They settled in the Marianas around 3,500 years ago, slightly earlier than the initial settlement of Polynesia.

By David Aragorn
OneWeb resumes satellite launches with flight from Russian cosmodrome 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 22, 2020
OneWeb, the satellite firm rescued by the British government and India’s Bharti Group, resumed flights on Friday in its push to provide global broadband coverage as 36 of its satellites blasted off into orbit from Russia’s Far East.

By David Aragorn