NASA

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover weighed the mountain it’s climbing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2019
Rock under the rover’s wheels is more like soil than cement, a clue to how Mount Sharp formed

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Find Dark Energy May Vary Over Time 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 30, 2019
A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton suggests that dark energy may have varied over cosmic time, as reported in our latest press release.

By David Aragorn
Once Around the Sun! NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Aces 1st Trip Around Our Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2019
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.

By David Aragorn
The Hubble telescope found the brightest quasar ever and also needs a fix 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 16, 2019
One of the premier cameras on the Hubble Space Telescope is no longer working and NASA has shut it down while the issue is investigated.

By David Aragorn
Nasa spacecraft spots gaseous planet three times the size of Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 10, 2019
Tess mission has detected three new planets and six supernovae in its first three months

By David Aragorn
Less than a year after launch, TESS is already finding bizarre worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
The first few exoplanets nabbed by the telescope are unlike any yet seen

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Going To Crash a Satellite Into an Asteroid—On Purpose 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2019
On the off chance that giant asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth—and Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are unavailable—NASA is putting together a backup plan

By David Aragorn
Saturn is losing its rings at ‘worst-case-scenario’ rate 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 19, 2018
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.

By David Aragorn
NASA releases first data from OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2018
Take a peek at asteroid Bennu: porous, blue, and with a water-rich parent body.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
NASA’s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.

By David Aragorn