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Taurids Meteor Shower showing November 10-11 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 8, 2017
When and how to observe the Taurids Meteor Shower this weekend November 11-12

By David Aragorn
Whilst The Human Race Sleeps, NASA Have Already Discovered a 100 Habitable Planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 8, 2017
It has recently been announced (never very loudly) that NASA’S Kepler spacecraft has found at least more than 100 confirmed alien planets – and probably far more than they actually make out to have discovered!

By David Aragorn
British professor claims he found alien life floating 25 miles above Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 8, 2017
Dr. Milton Wainwright is trying to convince the world that the found alien life floating some 25 miles in our planet’s atmosphere – but while tabloids gobbled up his story like no tomorrow, the scientific community is much more reluctant to accept his results. Is there any truth to these claims? Let’s have a look.

By David Aragorn
Monster Planet, Tiny Star: Record-Breaking Duo Puzzles Astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 6, 2017
A giant planet has been found orbiting an ultracool dwarf star — the largest planet compared to its star ever found — leaving scientists baffled at how the duo could have formed.

By David Aragorn
Here Be Monsters: Study Identifies Likely Location of Merging Black Hole Giants 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 4, 2017
Scientists on the hunt for colliding black holes should turn their eyes to the quiet, outer regions of galaxies like the Milky Way, a new study suggests.

By David Aragorn
Filling the early universe with knots can explain why the world is three-dimensional 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 3, 2017
The next time you come across a knotted jumble of rope or wire or yarn, ponder this: The natural tendency for things to tangle may help explain the three-dimensional nature of the universe and how it formed.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers find half of the missing matter in the universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 2, 2017
Scientists produce indirect evidence of gaseous filaments and sheets known as Whims linking clusters of galaxies in the cosmic web

By David Aragorn
Sinuous Gullies Snake Down Sand Dune on Mars (Photo)0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 1, 2017
These Martian gullies may be linear, but they’re far from straight.

By David Aragorn
Martian Ridge Brings Out Rover’s Color Talents 0
- Earth Mysteries
- November 1, 2017
Color-discerning capabilities that NASA’s Curiosity rover has been using on Mars since 2012 are proving particularly helpful on a mountainside ridge the rover is now climbing.

By David Aragorn
Scientists detect comets outside our solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 1, 2017
Scientists from MIT and other institutions, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets — comets outside our solar system — orbiting a faint star 800 light years from Earth.

By David Aragorn