space

ESA Makes Robotics History With Rock Sampling Gripper Controlled from Space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 3, 2019
An astronaut was able to control a rock-sampling rover, all the way from the International Space Station.

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
Researchers identify a minimoon fireball 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2019
A team of researchers at Curtin University studying data from Australia’s Desert Fireball Network has identified a minimoon fireball. In their paper published in The Astronomical Journal, the group describes how they found the fireball and the methods they used to show that it had come from a minimoon.

By David Aragorn
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2019
At a two-day ministerial meeting held in Seville, Spain this week, the European Space Agency’s member states approved the most ambitious plan to date by agreeing to provide nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.8 billion) for the next three years to boost the future of ESA and the whole European space sector. This is the agency’s biggest increase in funds in the last 25 years.

By David Aragorn
‘Dust Towers’ Spotted on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2019
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed a high number of ‘dust towers’ — concentrated clouds of dust that warm in sunlight and rise high into the air — during the global Martian dust storm in 2018.

By David Aragorn
Scientists inch closer than ever to signal from cosmic dawn 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2019
Around 12 billion years ago, the universe emerged from a great cosmic dark age as the first stars and galaxies lit up. With a new analysis of data collected by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope, scientists are now closer than ever to detecting the ultra-faint signature of this turning point in cosmic history.

By David Aragorn
A surprisingly big black hole might have swallowed a star from the inside out, and scientists are baffled 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2019
About 15,000 light years away, in a distant spiral arm of the Milky Way, there is a black hole about 70 times as heavy as the Sun.

By David Aragorn
There Might Be Cracks in the Universe — But We Can’t See Them from Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2019
The cracks, if they exist, are old, remnants of a time shortly after the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
A newfound black hole in the Milky Way is weirdly heavy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2019
The object is locked in orbit with a star about 13,800 light-years away from Earth

By David Aragorn
Planets around a black hole? Calculations show possibility of bizarre worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2019
Theoreticians in two fields defied the received wisdom that planets only orbit stars like the sun. They proposed the possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole.

By David Aragorn