space

SUNSPOTS VANISHING FASTER THAN EXPECTED 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 2, 2018
Sunspots are becoming scarce. Very scarce. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots.

By David Aragorn
NASA Reveals New Results from Galileo’s Historic Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 2, 2018
On June 27, 1996, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made humanity’s first flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, discovering that it is the only moon known to possess an internally generated magnetic field.

By David Aragorn
Mars 2020 spacecraft heat shield damaged in test, launch date not affected: NASA 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2018
A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six-wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an “unexpected” fracture during a structural test this month, causing the space agency to build a replacement, the space agency said.

By David Aragorn
New estimates of Mercury’s thin, dense crust 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2018
Mercury is small, fast and close to the sun, making the rocky world challenging to visit. Only one probe has ever orbited the planet and collected enough data to tell scientists about the chemistry and landscape of Mercury’s surface. Learning about what is beneath the surface, however, requires careful estimation.

By David Aragorn
ExoMars Rover prepares for shake down ahead of Mars trip 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2018
The European Space Agency’s mission to search for life on Mars has reached an important milestone with its six-wheeled surface rover prototype ready for its “shake and bake”.

By David Aragorn
Hubble captures first image of surviving companion to a supernova 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 27, 2018
And it seems that the companion star caused the explosion.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Miners’ Arkyd-6 Satellite Aces Big Test in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 27, 2018
Some of Planetary Resources’ asteroid-mining tech just passed a major space test.

By David Aragorn
Space agencies aim to deliver rocks from Mars to Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 26, 2018
The US and European space agencies are edging towards a joint mission to bring back rock and soil samples from Mars.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers discover 14 galaxies poised to collide and form colossal cluster 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 26, 2018
Astronomers have discovered the beginnings of a gigantic “cosmic pileup” in the far reaches of the universe that has never been seen before and could form one of the largest structures in the cosmos.

By David Aragorn
Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 26, 2018
High impact research.

By David Aragorn