space

Once Around the Sun! NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Aces 1st Trip Around Our Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2019
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed its first loop around the sun and entered the second of 24 planned orbits.

By David Aragorn
Where is Earth’s submoon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets, so it was natural to ask if smaller moons could orbit larger ones

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Have Made a Breathtaking Image Staring Deeper Into Space Than Ever Before 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
A few years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope did something amazing: over the course of 841 orbits and hundreds of exposures, it imaged a tiny region of space in the constellation of Fornax, peeling back the layers of time by 13 billion years, to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Warn of Steady Increase in Asteroid Impacts on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
One of the scientists involved in the study pointed out that although the number of space rocks striking earth is increasing, the probability of an asteroid strike wiping out mankind is extremely low.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s Essential Elements for Life Probably Came from Another Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2019
Planetary researchers believe that our Moon was created more than 4.4 billion years ago in a catastrophic collision between proto-Earth and a hypothetical planet-sized body known as Theia. According to new research, our planet received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other life-essential elements from that planetary collision.

By David Aragorn
Space in 2019 will be all about the moon, and one weird asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2019
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong’s historic step, robots from China, India, Israel, the US and elsewhere are heading back.

By David Aragorn
How realistic are China’s plans to build a research station on the Moon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2019
The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, laying the groundwork for a lunar base.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Bizarre Quadruple Star System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2019
The newly discovered system could lead to finding even stranger distant planets.

By David Aragorn
A METEOROID HITS THE MOON DURING LUNAR ECLIPSE 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2019
On Jan. 21st at 04:41:43 UT, a meteoroid slammed into the Moon.

By David Aragorn
Black hole radio jet ‘pointed directly at Earth’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2019
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way seems to be pointing a radio jet directly towards us.

By David Aragorn