STRANGE BLUE COMET0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2018
Beyond the orbit of Mars, blue Comet PanSTARRS (C/2016 R2) is behaving strangley.
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On Mars, atmospheric methane—a sign of life on Earth—changes mysteriously with the seasons0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2018
From the pasture to the swamp, methane emissions on Earth are the effluvia of life. So what are whiffs of the gas doing on barren Mars?
Saturn’s moon Titan sports Earth-like features0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2018
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn’s moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain.
Record-Breaking 2,000 New Asteroids Approached Earth in 2017 and Astronomers Expect to Spot Even More in 20180
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 6, 2018
We’ve had plenty of near-misses in the year of 2017, and now we’re expecting more meteors??
Glassy debris points to relatively recent asteroid impact in southeast Asia0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- January 6, 2018
A kilometer-size asteroid slammed into Earth about 800,000 years ago with so much force that it scattered debris across a 10th of our planet’s surface. Yet its impact crater remains undiscovered. Now, glassy remains believed to have come from the strike suggest the asteroid hit southeast Asia as our close ancestors walked the Earth.
ELECTRIC-BLUE CLOUDS CIRCLING ANTARCTICA0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 6, 2018
NASA’s AIM spacecraft is monitoring a vast ring of electric-blue clouds circling high above Antarctica.
Tabby’s Star: Alien megastructure not the cause of dimming of the ‘most mysterious star in the universe’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2018
Scientists are one step closer to solving the mystery behind the ‘most mysterious star in the universe.’
Nasa’s to-do list for 2018: Robots in Mars, asteroid visits, touching the sun and more0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 3, 2018
2018 is slated to be an exciting year for Nasa and its fans.
All the biggest and best space discoveries of 20170
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2017
We learned more about neutron stars, found more planets and said goodbye to Cassini in 2017. We end the year with a better picture of the Universe than we started it with.
Genes in Space-3 successfully identifies unknown microbes in space0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 30, 2017
Being able to identify microbes in real time aboard the International Space Station, without having to send them back to Earth for identification first, would be revolutionary for the world of microbiology and space exploration.
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