space

Elon Musk Shows us What’s Inside the Starship 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2019
On Saturday, Sept.28th, Elon Musk stood before a crowd at SpaceX’s testing facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

By David Aragorn
Listen to What Mars Sounds like through NASA’s InSight Lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2019
You’ll hear blistering gusts of wind, robotic arm movements, and seismic Martian activity.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX’s Elon Musk plans to launch this Mars rocketship within months 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2019
Company unveils newly assembled Starship, predicts orbital flight in next 6 months

By David Aragorn
Terrawatch: the mysteries of the moon’s largest crater 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2019
A recent Chinese mission has revealed more about the South Pole Aitken basin

By David Aragorn
Tons of Water in Asteroids Could Fuel Satellites, Space Exploration 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2019
When it comes to mining space for water, the best target may not be the moon: Entrepreneurs’ richest options are likely to be asteroids that are larger and closer to Earth.

By David Aragorn
Is Planet Nine Really Just an Old Black Hole?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 1, 2019
New research argues Planet Nine is really just a black hole left over from the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Near-Earth objects could be used by extraterrestrials ‘to watch our world,’ stunning study suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 1, 2019
Although Earth only has one moon, it does have other natural satellites, including asteroid 2016 HO3, known as a “co-orbital object.” These tiny celestial objects could be an “attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence,” according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
Elon Musk to provide update on SpaceX’s Starship this weekend 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2019
In the last few months, teams of SpaceX engineers working on the flat coastal plains of South Texas and in a nondescript industrial yard on Florida’s Space Coast have been building two futuristic-looking stainless steel rockets — or Starships — prototypes for a reusable vehicle the company claims could one day ferry people to Mars.

By David Aragorn
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2019
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA’s WFIRST space telescope, according to new models of gas giant planet formation by Carnegie’s Alan Boss, described in an upcoming publication in The Astrophysical Journal. His models are supported by a new Science paper on the surprising discovery of a gas giant planet orbiting a low-mass star.

By David Aragorn
NASA plays Where’s Waldo? with India’s crashed Moon lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 28, 2019
You’d think spotting a crashed lander on the surface of the Moon would be easier, but NASA is discovering that the hunt can be trickier than you might expect. Searches for India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, have turned up empty-handed so far, with the failed mission so far escaping the high-resolution eye of NASA’s lunar satellites.

By David Aragorn