NASA

Hubble’s Contentious Constant 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2017
There are two leading ways to measure the universe’s rate of expansion, and for fifteen years, they more or less agreed with one another. Not anymore, and that’s a big deal.

By David Aragorn
Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2017
Astronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through the solar system on a steep trajectory from interstellar space—the first confirmed object from another star.

By David Aragorn
Origami in Orbit: Ancient Art Inspires Efficient Spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 21, 2017
The ancient art of origami has inspired designs for numerous pieces of hardware on NASA missions, allowing scientists to pack more technology into smaller space-bound packages.

By David Aragorn
Is the Sun Getting Brighter?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 17, 2017
What does the data tell us about the sun, and should we be worried?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission Performs First Supersonic Parachute Test 0
- From Around the Web
- November 17, 2017
Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful.

By David Aragorn
New NASA Mission Concept Aimed at Studying Why Planets Lose their Atmospheres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 15, 2017
A team of NASA scientists want to use Earth as a laboratory to understand how planets lose their atmospheres and has proposed a mission that the agency recently selected as one of five for further consideration as a possible NASA Explorer mission.

By David Aragorn
Orbital ATK’s S.S. Gene Cernan to Deliver Supplies to Space Station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 13, 2017
Orbital ATK will launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit to the International Space Station, targeted for November 11, 2017, from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Just Sent Back Stunning New Photos of Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 11, 2017
Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 miles per hour, NASA’s $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24. But the sun slipped between the giant planet and Earth for more than a week, blocking the spacecraft from beaming home its precious bounty of data. Now that the conjunction is over, however,

By David Aragorn
Something scorching hot is melting Antarctica from below, and NASA thinks they know what it is 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 10, 2017
Antarctica is a weird place.

By David Aragorn
Dawn explores Ceres’ interior evolution 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 10, 2017
Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.

By David Aragorn