Nasa to hold major announcement after artificial intelligence makes planet-hunting breakthrough0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2017
The mysterious discovery was made by harnessing Google’s machine learning prowess
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Zips Off To Collect Asteroid Sample0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2017
NASA’s latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect asteroids’ orbital paths and their potential for impacting Earth, and the origins of life in the solar system.
NASA Just Unveiled Its Plan to Retrieve The First-Ever Samples From Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2017
NASA has unveiled its plan for its next Mars rover, “Mars 2020”, which will collect samples from the surface of the red planet.
“We’re Re-thinking the Evolution of the Universe” –13-Billion-Year Voyage of the Light from Oldest Most Massive Known Black Hole0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 8, 2017
Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar known, which is so far from us that its light has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us.
Gold, water and platinum: Australians lead the way towards asteroid mining boom0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2017
Australia will have asteroid mining before we have people living on Mars, according to leading Australian scientists.
UA Students Participate in First Global Planetary Defense Exercise0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 6, 2017
Students are part of a drill that tests astronomers’ ability to respond to a highly unlikely — but not impossible — scenario: an asteroid on course to collide with Earth.
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon: Geminid Parent at Its Closest and Brightest!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 6, 2017
The parent asteroid of December’s Geminid meteor shower, 3200 Phaethon, is about to make a historically close flyby. Get ready to watch it race across the sky.
Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 5, 2017
Three times further away from the sun than the Earth lies an enormous lump of metal. Around 252km in diameter, the metallic “M-class” asteroid 16 Psyche is the target of NASA’s next mission to the belt of giant rocks that encircles the inner solar system. And the space agency now plans to visit it much sooner than originally planned.
Will Earth’s Lava Flows Decipher Ancient Mars’?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- December 5, 2017
Lava flow: an unstoppable destructive force that burns pretty much everything in its path. When a volcano erupts, it’s important that people in surrounding areas have adequate time to evacuate. To provide those crucial extra hours, or minutes, researchers are using drones to improve hazard predictions, and perhaps tell us something about life on ancient Mars.
How Close Are We to Photographing a Black Hole?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2017
What does a black hole look like? No one knows for sure. Artists make their images based on what physicists think they look like. But that could be about to change.
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