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NASA’s new space suits are delayed, making a 2024 Moon landing ‘not feasible’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 12, 2021
The agency’s lunar-grade astronaut suits are behind schedule, an inspector general report says

By David Aragorn
Higher but still slim odds of asteroid Bennu slamming Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 12, 2021
The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
SCIENTISTS SAY NASA’S MARS ROVER IS ON THE SITE OF ANCIENT PONDS, NOT A HUGE LAKE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 11, 2021
WAS THE GALE CRATER AN ANCIENT LAKE — OR A SERIES OF TINY PONDS?

By David Aragorn
Part Of Ancient Billion-Year-Old Subcontinent Found Under New Zealand 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- August 11, 2021
A team of geologists have discovered a billion-year-old supercontinent hiding underneath New Zealand.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s huge moon Ganymede stuns in new infrared image from NASA’s Juno probe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 11, 2021
Scientists are using infrared to better explore Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system.

By David Aragorn
Space Force Reluctant to Investigate UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 11, 2021
“It makes perfect sense,” one official who is currently advising the military on the issue said, noting that Space Force’s responsibilities are more global than the other branches of the military, which gives U.S. Space Command access to advanced surveillance technologies.

By David Aragorn
A lunar magnetic field may have lasted for only a short time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 11, 2021
Apollo-era samples suggest that any lunar magnetosphere endured no more than 500 million years

By David Aragorn
Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Matter Generated by Collisions of Light 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 10, 2021
According to theory, if you smash two photons together hard enough, you can generate matter: an electron-positron pair, the conversion of light to mass as per Einstein’s theory of special relativity.

By David Aragorn
Origin of dinosaur-ending asteroid possibly found. And it’s dark.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2021
About 66 million years ago, an estimated 6-mile-wide (9.6 kilometers) object slammed into Earth, triggering a cataclysmic series of events that resulted in the demise of non-avian dinosaurs.

By David Aragorn
UFO stigma, alien conspiracy theories are relics of Cold War paranoia 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- August 10, 2021
For more than seven decades, highly credible witnesses and sophisticated sensors observed mysterious objects flying in ways that defy easy explanation. But until recently, former presidents, top intelligence officials, members of Congress and pilots had never spoken so openly about UFOs — or the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

By David Aragorn