space

Trump’s Space Force aims to create ‘American dominance in space’ by 2020 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2018
What the heck is a Space Force? We finally (sort of) know.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers saw the first mass eruption from a star that’s not the sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2018
The coronal mass ejection was as massive as scientists expected, but less energetic

By David Aragorn
There and back again: Mantle xenon has a story to tell 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2018
The Earth has been through a lot of changes in its 4.5 billion year history, including a shift to start incorporating and retaining volatile compounds from the atmosphere in the mantle before spewing them out again through volcanic eruptions.

By David Aragorn
TESS Spots Comet C/2018 N1 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 8, 2018
Before NASA’s newest planet-hunter TESS started science operations on July 25, the spacecraft sent back a series of images showing the motion of C/2018 N1, a comet recently discovered by the agency’s NEOWISE satellite.

By David Aragorn
Air Force remains silent after huge meteor hits near US military base 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 8, 2018
A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event.

By David Aragorn
What does Mars’ lake mean for the search for life on the Red Planet?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2018
The water body, if confirmed, could potentially harbor microbes

By David Aragorn
NASA Awards Top Five Design Finalists in 3D Printed Martian Habitat Challenge 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2018
Future missions to Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter explorers. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, a Centennial Challenges competition, seeks ways to create or develop the technologies needed to create such habitats on-site, and challenges citizen inventors to lead the way. Now a panel of experts from NASA, academia and industry has selected the top five teams to share a $100,000 prize in the Phase 3: Level 1 of the competition.

By David Aragorn
A star orbiting a black hole shows Einstein got gravity right — again 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2018
It’s the first time an effect of general relativity has been observed in such an environment

By David Aragorn
Meteorite Researchers Find Strong Evidence Early Sun Was Highly Active 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2018
By examining microscopic ice-blue crystals of mineral hibonite trapped inside a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, an international team of scientists was able to figure out what the Sun was like before the Earth formed.

By David Aragorn
Blood-curdling video shows near-Earth asteroids spotted by NASA have skyrocketed in 20yrs 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 31, 2018
A mesmerising – and alarming – new animation from NASA demonstrates just how dramatic the increase in near-Earth asteroids entering our Solar System has become over the last 20 years.

By David Aragorn