space

Large unknown mass discovered on the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2019
Scientists have identified a large, anomalous mass embedded deep beneath the Moon’s largest crater.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s new early-warning meteor impact system is needed more than ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2019
Scientists fear a repeat of the 2013 strike in Russia and the devastating 1908 impact

By David Aragorn
Living and working around the moon: NASA makes plans for a new space station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2019
Imagine, a few years from now, looking up into the night sky and seeing a full moon, brightly illuminating the landscape in front of you.

By David Aragorn
The Holographic Universe Explained 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 6, 2019
We live in a universe with 3 dimensions of space and one of time. Up, down, left, right, forward, back, past, future. 3+1 dimensions. Or so our primitive Pleistocene-evolved brains find it useful to believe. And we cling to this intuition, even as physics shows us that this view of reality may be only a very narrow perception. One of the most startling possibilities is that our 3+1 dimensional universe may better described as resulting from a spacetime one dimension lower – like a hologram projected from a surface infinitely far away.

By David Aragorn
Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2019
New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa.

By David Aragorn
No Signs of Aliens in the Closest 1,300 Stars, Hunt Funded by Russian Billionaire Reveals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2019
While the truth might be out there, technological aliens don’t seem to be — at least not yet.

By David Aragorn
Amateur Astronomers Help the Ministry of Defence Track Space Objects and Prevent Collisions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 5, 2019
Astronomers from the Basingstoke Astronomical Society are using commercially available telescopes to help the Ministry of Defence.

By David Aragorn
Space miners race to an asteroid worth quintillions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2019
Could 16 Psyche make every person on Earth a billionaire? The space mining race is heating up.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s TESS mission finds its smallest planet yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2019
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.

By David Aragorn
Scientists conclude cigar-shaped interstellar object not an alien spaceship 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 4, 2019
After investigating the nature of a mysterious and apparently cigar-shaped object called ‘Oumuamua spotted in 2017 speeding through our solar system, astronomers remain uncertain over how to classify it, but are confident it is not an alien spaceship.

By David Aragorn