There’s Mysteriously Large Amounts of Methane on Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 30, 2017
The mystery isn’t just that we see methane when we shouldn’t. It’s also that, in a sense, we see too much of it.
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Titan: Sand Dunes On Saturn’s Moon Are Electric And Do Not Move, Scientists Say0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 30, 2017
Scientists studying the conditions on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, have found that the particles covering much of its surface are electrically charged. Not only that, but the particles tend to clump together and become immovable dunes climbing to as high as 300 feet.
Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes, says study0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 30, 2017
The massive black hole is able to rapidly grow as intense radiation from a galaxy nearby shuts down star-formation in its host galaxy.
Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 30, 2017
The huge rocks that hurtle through space may prove to be lifesavers for astronauts. Clays extracted from asteroids could be used on deep space missions to shield against celestial radiation.
No one knows what to do with the International Space Station0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2017
Congress has only approved funding through 2024. What happens then?
Asteroid Impacts Spawned Colossal 500-Foot-High Tsunamis in Mars’ Ancient Oceans0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2017
“The possibility that a large ocean once occupied the Martian northern plains is one of the most important and controversial hypotheses to have originated from the exploration of Mars,” the researchers wrote in the study.
Star in closest orbit ever seen around black hole0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2017
Astronomers have found evidence of a star that whips around a likely black hole twice an hour. This could be the tightest orbital dance ever seen by a black hole and a companion star in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Stephen Hawking will travel to space on board Richard Branson’s ship, professor says0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2017
‘I thought no one would take me’, the cosmologist and physicist said
Mars Volcano Died at Same Time As Dinosaurs0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 25, 2017
Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned.
NASA observatory captures a rare stretch of our sun without spots0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 23, 2017
Like a giant egg yolk in the sky
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