space

Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2018
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope uncover a cosmic titan lurking in the early Universe

By David Aragorn
Earth Dodges a Meteor Storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2018
On Oct. 8-9, Europeans outdoors around midnight were amazed when a flurry of faint meteors filled the sky.

By David Aragorn
What’s the difference between a comet and an asteroid?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2018
They both orbit the sun, but they’re very different.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Twenty New Fast Radio Bursts 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 16, 2018
Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory have nearly doubled the known number of fast radio bursts — mysterious and rarely detected bursts of energy from space. The team’s discoveries, reported in the journal Nature, include the closest and brightest fast radio bursts ever detected.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Voyager 2 Probe About to Leave Solar System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2018
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside the Solar System. Currently, the probe is approximately 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) from Earth.

By David Aragorn
Every NASA Mission Should Be Looking for Alien Life, Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2018
Searching for signs of alien life should be part of every future NASA mission, researchers wrote in a new report.

By David Aragorn
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 12, 2018
A US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut were forced to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS).

By David Aragorn
A Third Probe Landed on Asteroid Ryugu—but It Had Just 16 Hours to Live 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 10, 2018
A German-French probe called MASCOT was sent to the surface of Ryugu, an asteroid located 190 million miles from Earth, to collect valuable data. But it needed to work fast—the shoebox-sized probe had only 16 hours to live.

By David Aragorn
3 compelling reasons why we haven’t found aliens yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 9, 2018
Aliens have always captured our imaginations. The universe is large and filled with other planets but somehow it seems like humans are alone. So we decided to break down three theories on why we haven’t found any aliens yet. Following is a transcript of the video.

By David Aragorn
We may not have found aliens yet because we’ve barely begun looking 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 6, 2018
A new calculation compares the effort so far to exploring a hot tub’s–worth of Earth’s oceans

By David Aragorn