space

NASA’s sun-kissing probe gets a hot new name 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2017
Everything you need to know about NASA’s plans to touch the sun.

By David Aragorn
Mars was probably habitable for longer than we thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2017
It was warm and wet right around the time life got its start on Earth.

By David Aragorn
Solar Explosion Misses Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 1, 2017
On May 30th, a dark filament of magnetism tore through the sun’s atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Scientists solve mystery of how most antimatter in the Milky Way forms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 1, 2017
A team of international astrophysicists led by The Australian National University (ANU) has shown how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms.

By David Aragorn
Russian Outlet Claims NASA Took An Amazing, Totally True Image Of 3 UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- May 31, 2017
Nooooo, says a NASA spokesman.

By David Aragorn
Naked Singularities Can Form in ‘Saddle-Shaped’ Universe, Physicists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2017
A team of theoretical physicists at the University of Cambridge, UK, has used computer simulations to predict the existence of a so-called naked singularity, which interferes with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

By David Aragorn
Space-Time is Constantly Moving, Physicists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2017
A team of researchers from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, has tackled the question ‘what causes the slow accelerating expansion of the Universe’ in a study that tries to resolve a major incompatibility issue between two theories: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

By David Aragorn
We Just Learned A Lot Of Unexpected Things About Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2017
Forget everything you knew about gas giants, because based on the latest results from the Juno mission, we were wrong. We were so wrong.

By David Aragorn
A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 29, 2017
Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

By David Aragorn
We finally have the Juno spacecraft’s first results on Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 27, 2017
Here are eight surprising things NASA has learned so far.

By David Aragorn