space

Chinese rover sends first pictures from the dark side of the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2019
The rover is the first to land on the dark side of the moon.

By David Aragorn
Aging Voyager 1 spacecraft undermines idea that dark matter is tiny black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2019
Humanity’s most far-flung spacecraft, NASA’s 41-year-old Voyager 1, has poked a hole in a long-shot theory of dark matter.

By David Aragorn
Light shed on mystery space radio pulses 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 10, 2019
Astronomers have fresh insight on a mysterious source of recurring radio pulses from space.

By David Aragorn
Nasa spacecraft spots gaseous planet three times the size of Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 10, 2019
Tess mission has detected three new planets and six supernovae in its first three months

By David Aragorn
Mysterious radio signals from deep space detected 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada.

By David Aragorn
What could Chang’e 4 discover on far side of the moon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
Chang’e 4 will test soil composition, try to grow plants, and listen for traces of Big Bang

By David Aragorn
‘Missing’ galactic mergers come to light with new technique 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
Galaxy mergers—in which two galaxies join together over billions of years in sometimes-dramatic bursts of light—aren’t always easy for astronomers to spot. Now, scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new technique for finding these cosmic couplings in surveys of the night sky.

By David Aragorn
Less than a year after launch, TESS is already finding bizarre worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
The first few exoplanets nabbed by the telescope are unlike any yet seen

By David Aragorn
Astrophysicists Find First Observational Evidence for ‘Dark Matter Heating’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
An international team of astrophysicists from the University of Surrey, Carnegie Mellon University and ETH Zürich has found evidence that dark matter can be heated up and moved around, as a result of star formation in galaxies.

By David Aragorn
ASTEROID FLYING BY EARTH HAS A MOON 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
Yesterday, Jan. 7th, near-Earth asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past the Earth-Moon system only 2.8 million miles away.

By David Aragorn