space

The meteor shower that brought Tunguska is due in June 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
That disastrous rock may now looks to have been a Beta Taurid passenger

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Enters Close Orbit Around Bennu, Breaking Record 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2019
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and broke a space exploration record.

By David Aragorn
Imagine Giving Birth in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2019
A start-up wants a woman to deliver a child 250 miles above Earth. The first question: Why?

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Going To Crash a Satellite Into an Asteroid—On Purpose 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2019
On the off chance that giant asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth—and Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are unavailable—NASA is putting together a backup plan

By David Aragorn
Ultima Thule is Contact Binary, New Horizons Team Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2019
New images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — taken from as close as 17,000 miles (27,000 km) on approach — revealed Ultima Thule as a contact binary.

By David Aragorn
2018 was a busy year in space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2019
We said hello to some spacecraft and good-bye to a few favorites

By David Aragorn
Hippo-shaped asteroid skims past Earth on closest approach for 400 years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 4, 2019
Mile-long rock shaped like water-loving pachyderm is rotating lazily through space under close watch by scientists who feared it could be on a collision course

By David Aragorn
Incoming! A June meteor swarm could be loaded with surprises.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 4, 2019
Scientists studying a mysterious event over Siberia in 1908 call for a special observation campaign next summer.

By David Aragorn
New Theory: The Universe is a Bubble, Inflated by Dark Energy 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 4, 2019
A mind-bending new theory claims to make sense not just of the expanding universe and extra dimensions, but string theory and dark energy as well. According to the new model, proposed in the journal Physical Review Letters by researchers from Uppsala University, the entire universe is riding on an expanding bubble in an “additional dimension” — which

By David Aragorn
Asteroid News: Radar Study And The Lucy Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 4, 2019
As 2018 comes to a close let’s take a look at what is happening with all the objects surrounding the Earth.

By David Aragorn