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Planetary Society Says LightSail 2 Demonstrated Flight by Light 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2019
The Planetary Society says that its LightSail 2 satellite has demonstrated the ability to change its orbit by the power of light.

By David Aragorn
TESS finds potentially habitable super-Earth 31 light-years away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2019
After completing its first year of observations in the southern sky, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted some intriguing new exoplanets only 31 light-years away from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Apollo 11 installed an experiment on the Moon that is still working today 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2019
NASA’s Apollo 11 mission broke new ground in a lot of obvious ways. Landing humans on the lunar surface was a huge accomplishment, as was the first (and each subsequent) moonwalk.

By David Aragorn
Star orbiting massive black hole lends support to Einstein’s theory 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 31, 2019
Observations of light coming from a star zipping in orbit around the humongous black hole at the center of our galaxy have provided fresh evidence backing Albert Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity, astronomers said on Thursday.

By David Aragorn
NASA finds three alien planets, including the ‘missing link’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 31, 2019
If a planet with three suns isn’t your thing, what about a sun with three planets?

By David Aragorn
How Astronomers Missed the Massive Asteroid That Just Whizzed Past Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 30, 2019
A large asteroid just whizzed past our planet — and astronomers weren’t expecting it.

By David Aragorn
Unexpected ‘city killer’ asteroid narrowly misses Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 30, 2019
NASA ran a simulation in May for a similar-sized asteroid measuring up to 80 metres in diameter.

By David Aragorn
We Just Found a MAJOR Clue About How Life Started in the Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2019
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovered these electrically charged molecules shaped like soccer balls. These “buckyballs” could shed insight on the creation of stars and planets.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX finally reveals cause of April spacecraft explosion 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2019
A leaky valve started one serious explosion

By David Aragorn
LightSail 2: First Images Released from Fully Deployed Solar Sail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 26, 2019
The Planetary Society’s solar sail was successfully deployed. Now we have the images to prove it.

By David Aragorn