NASA

Galactic X-rays could point to dark matter proof 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 8, 2017
A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark matter.

By David Aragorn
NASA Scientist Studies Whether Solar Storms Cause Animal Beachings 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 7, 2017
A long-standing mystery among marine biologists is why otherwise healthy whales, dolphins, and porpoises — collectively known as cetaceans — end up getting stranded along coastal areas worldwide.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a short propulsive maneuver Wednesday to refine its track toward a New Year’s Day 2019 flyby past 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) some 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Massive UFO appears next to the ISS as NASA cuts live feed transmission again 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- January 31, 2017
A massive UFO appeared on NASA’s live feed filmed by the onboard cameras of the International Space Station. As the alleged UFO came closer, NASA decided to turn off the transmission causing rage among UFO believers. UFO hunters claim that this is conclusive proof that Alien crafts are visiting Earth. Is this the Black Knight Satellite?

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Data From Pluto Finally Arrives, And Astronomers Are ‘Putting A Bow Around It’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 27, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons space probe has been busy the past few years. After traveling roughly 4.67 billion miles to reach the dwarf planet Pluto’s system in July of 2015, the spacecraft is now moving on to its next target, an object discovered in the Kuiper Belt by the Hubble Space Telescope in June of 2014 and dubbed 2014 MU69.

By David Aragorn
NASA approves five more years for Hubble Space Telescope 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2017
Hubble will soon start seeing double.

By David Aragorn
Dwarf Planet Ceres Camouflaged by Asteroid Dust 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2017
The dwarf planet Ceres is cloaked in a layer of asteroid dust that disguises its true surface composition, a new study suggests.

By David Aragorn
NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2017
“We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl Sagan famously said. Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars generated much of the material that makes up our bodies, our planet and our solar system. When stars explode in violent deaths called supernovae, those newly formed elements escape and spread out in the universe.

By David Aragorn
Mars Rover Curiosity Examines Possible Mud Cracks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 21, 2017
Scientists used NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud.

By David Aragorn
Huygens: ‘Ground Truth’ From an Alien Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 19, 2017
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing.

By David Aragorn