NASA

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2019
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice and gases during the close approach of comet 46P/Wirtanen in late 2018. This is the most complete and detailed observation to date of the formation and dissipation of a naturally-occurring comet outburst. The team members reported their results in the November 22 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

By David Aragorn
NASA finds Indian Moon lander with help of amateur space enthusiast 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 3, 2019
India’s Vikram lunar lander, which crashed on its final approach to the Moon’s surface in September, has been found thanks in part to the sleuthing efforts of an amateur space enthusiast.

By David Aragorn
University takes U-turn, deletes press release that claimed aliens living on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 3, 2019
A few months back, a top NASA scientist had suggested that alien discovery will be made within 2021

By David Aragorn
NASA shows off stunning new Moon lander concept 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 27, 2019
As NASA gets ready to return to the Moon in 2024, the space agency is working on new designs for a lunar lander, including a futuristic design it shared on Monday.

By David Aragorn
The threat of killer asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 27, 2019
A giant space rock wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Could Earth be hit again?

By David Aragorn
‘Possibility of life’: scientists map Saturn’s exotic moon Titan 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2019
Scientists on Monday unveiled the first global geological map of Saturn’s moon Titan including vast plains and dunes of frozen organic material and lakes of liquid methane, illuminating an exotic world considered a strong candidate in the search for life beyond Earth.

By David Aragorn
Daring Mars mission to send rocks back to Earth in hunt for past life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2019
Europe poised to join US in complex plan to find evidence of fossil microbes on red planet

By David Aragorn
NASA’s adorable underwater rover might be the first to discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.

By David Aragorn
How to watch over 400 meteors shoot through the sky for an hour Thursday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
The night sky could light up with hundreds of shooting stars for an hour on Thursday thanks to a spectacular celestial event.

By David Aragorn
Advocates promote planetary defense mission ahead of ESA ministerial 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.

By David Aragorn