space

NASA found a bunch more potentially habitable planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
But our days of massive exoplanet dumps may be numbered.

By David Aragorn
Light wormholes could wire space invisibly 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
Invisible channels offer optical collusion.

By David Aragorn
Radio astronomers peer deep into the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

By David Aragorn
Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2017
Quantum satellite Micius has sent entangled photons to ground stations on Earth

By David Aragorn
Astronomers see mysterious nitrogen area in a butterfly-shaped star formation disk 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2017
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in the north-west.

By David Aragorn
Messages from fake aliens decoded quickly in online SETI contest 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 16, 2017
Do you speak alien? For years radio telescopes have been listening to the cosmos in the hope of picking up an alien message. We have had no luck yet, so while we wait René Heller organised a trial run. He simulated receiving a message from outer space and then challenged the general public to decrypt it.

By David Aragorn
Our sun might have been born with an evil twin called ‘Nemesis’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2017
The family isn’t close.

By David Aragorn
Mining the Heavens: Astronomers Could Spot Asteroid Prospects 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2017
Smithsonian astrophysicist Martin Elvis would like to see astronomers take on a crucial role for future asteroid mining: as astronomical prospectors scoping out the next big catch.

By David Aragorn
Scientists use meteorites to show that Jupiter is almost as old as the solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 16, 2017
Jupiter may have been a very early bloomer, gaining significant mass within the first million years of the solar system’s birth, according to a new analysis of meteorite fragments.

By David Aragorn
Czech scientists see growing risk of asteroid hitting Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2017
The risk is growing that Earth will be hit by an asteroid from a meteor stream known as the Taurids, Czech astronomers said on Tuesday.

By David Aragorn