space

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 successfully touches down on Ryugu asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
The probe was due to fire a pellet into the surface of the asteroid to try to capture dust

By David Aragorn
SpaceX launches satellites, moon mission on Falcon 9 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Indonesian communications satellite, an Israeli lunar lander and a U.S. Air Force smallsat launched Feb. 21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

By David Aragorn
We’re ‘Well On Our Way’ to Discovering Alien Life, NASA Chief Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2019
We may not have to wait much longer to get our first glimpse of E.T., NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said.

By David Aragorn
Meet Hippocamp! Neptune’s Smallest Moon Has a Name (and a Violent Past)0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
A faint and frigid little moon doesn’t have to go by “Neptune XIV” anymore.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s atmosphere stretches out to the moon – and beyond 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
The gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630,000 kilometers away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet, according to a new study based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, and published in AGU’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

By David Aragorn
SpaceShipTwo aims to reach space again 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
Virgin Galactic plans to conduct a fifth test flight Feb. 20 of its suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo.

By David Aragorn
Israel to launch first privately funded moon mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 20, 2019
Attempt to become fourth country to send spacecraft to the surface blasts off this week

By David Aragorn
Gateway Foundation Shows off Their Plans for an Enormous Rotating Space Station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 20, 2019
Since the end of the Apollo-era, one of the main goals of NASA, Roscosmos and other space agencies has been the development of technologies that will enable a long-term human presence in space.

By David Aragorn
Japan Just Shot a Fake Asteroid with a Space Bullet … for Science 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 20, 2019
Say you need to prepare to shoot bullets into an asteroid and suck up the debris kicked up from the blast, then tuck it away for safekeeping. There’s no better way than to shoot bullets into a fake asteroid here on Earth and watch what happens in slow motion.

By David Aragorn
Mars’ lake may need an underground volcano to exist 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 20, 2019
Scientists try to explain how a body of water could remain liquid in such a cold environment

By David Aragorn