Planet crash that made moon left key elements for life on Earth, scientists say0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
Most of carbon and nitrogen that makes up our bodies probably came from passing planet, researchers believe
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Birth of massive black holes in the early universe revealed0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
The light released from around the first massive black holes in the universe is so intense that it is able to reach telescopes across the entire expanse of the universe.
A Fleeting Moment in Time0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
European Southern Observatory’s Cosmic Gems Programme captures last breath of a dying star
Seeing double could help resolve dispute about how fast the universe is expanding0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
Astronomers uses split images of quasars to produce a new estimate of the Hubble constant
Cassini Team Finds Evidence of Summer Rainfall at Titan’s North Pole0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
Observations from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provide evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in the northern hemisphere of the hazy moon.
Steam-Powered Spacecraft Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Forever, Refueling Itself in Space0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2019
The era of renewed space exploration has led to some rather ambitious proposals.
Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2019
The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesized by some astronomers to be shaped by an unknown ninth planet, can instead be explained by the combined gravitational force of small objects orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, say researchers.
Asteroid strikes ‘increase threefold over last 300m years’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion
Apophis asteroid could strike Earth in 2068, warn Russian scientists0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
The ominously-named Apophis asteroid could have hundreds of opportunities to hit the Earth over the course of the next century, Russian scientists have warned.
Stargazers share images of the super blood wolf moon0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 21, 2019
Sky gazers were treated to a rare lunar eclipse known as a super blood wolf moon on Sunday night, in which sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere lit the celestial body in a dramatic fashion and turned it red.
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