space

China Makes Historic 1st Landing on Mysterious Far Side of the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 3, 2019
Humanity just planted its flag on the far side of the moon.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX launches first GPS 3 satellite 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 27, 2018
SpaceX launched the U.S. Air Force’s newest GPS satellite Dec. 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket, completing the company’s 21st and final launch of the year.

By David Aragorn
Mile-wide, potentially hazardous asteroid 2003 SD220 to swoosh by Earth on Saturday 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 26, 2018
A potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), designated 2003 SD220 (or 163899), is expected to fly by the Earth on Saturday, December 22, at around 1:04 UTC.

By David Aragorn
Most-distant solar system object ever observed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2018
Outer solar system experts find ‘far out there’ dwarf planet

By David Aragorn
Saturn is losing its rings at ‘worst-case-scenario’ rate 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 19, 2018
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.

By David Aragorn
Matter Sucked in by Black Holes May Travel into the Future, Get Spit Back Out 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 19, 2018
Black holes are among the most mysterious places in the universe; locations where the very fabric of space and time are warped so badly that not even light can escape from them.

By David Aragorn
Mystery of coronae around supermassive black holes deepens 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 18, 2018
Researchers from RIKEN and JAXA have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) to measure, for the first time, the strength of magnetic fields near two supermassive black holes at the centers of an important type of active galaxies.

By David Aragorn
A New Year message from the edge of the solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 18, 2018
On 1 January 2019 the New Horizons probe will begin transmitting data from Ultima Thule, 4bn miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt. What will it find?

By David Aragorn
Video from Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity shows stunning view of Earth from the edge of space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2018
The spaceplane reached an altitude of 51.4 miles.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
NASA’s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.

By David Aragorn