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‘Dragonfly’ Drone Could Explore Saturn Moon Titan 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 6, 2017
A proposed eight-bladed drone could soar across Saturn’s moon Titan, exploring multiple sites over the course of decades.

By David Aragorn
NASA Astronauts Are Close to Identifying Unknown Microbe Colonies That Grow in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 5, 2017
What lurks above.

By David Aragorn
Is dark matter ‘fuzzy’?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 4, 2017
Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the properties of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up a majority of matter in the universe.

By David Aragorn
It’s Official. Humans Are Going to Mars. NASA Has Unveiled Their Mission.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 3, 2017
Though the undertaking will no doubt include many challenges, NASA is finally ready to make humanity’s dream of sending people to Mars a reality. To that end, the agency has shared its five-part plan for reaching the Red Planet.

By David Aragorn
Scientists measure brightness of the universe with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 21, 2017
Images taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications.

By David Aragorn
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
Enceladus is ripe for life. In one final pass through the icy moon’s liquid plumes, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found molecular hydrogen, which indicates favourable conditions for life in Enceladus’s subsurface sea.

By David Aragorn
Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.

By David Aragorn
Clinoforms in Melas Chasma 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2017
In this image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a group of steeply inclined light-toned layers is bounded above and below by unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another) that indicate a “break” where erosion of pre-existing layers was taking place at a higher rate than deposition of new materials.

By David Aragorn
NASA to Reveal New Discoveries in News Conference on Oceans Beyond Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 12, 2017
NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency’s Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 13.

By David Aragorn
NASA unveiled new plans for getting humans to Mars, and hardly anyone noticed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2017
Last week, NASA did something many have demanded it do since the Space Launch System was unveiled in 2011: Provide more details on how the agency will send humans to Mars.

By David Aragorn