Prometheus Popping0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2016
Saturn’s potato-shaped moon Prometheus is shown in this close-up from Cassini.
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Russia develops satellite to remove space garbage from near-Earth space0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2016
Russia’s state-run corporation Roscosmos develops a project of a space cleaner – a satellite that will be able to “blow away” space junk.
2016 Is About To Get Even Longer, As Scientists Add An Extra Second To The New Year’s Eve Countdown0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2016
The countdown for the end of the year 2016 is going to be one second longer, thanks to a “leap second” that will be added on to the end of it, according to Science Alert.
NEOWISE mission spies one comet, maybe two0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2016
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. Another—definitely a comet—might be seen with binoculars through next week.
New Year’s Comet To Be Visible From Northern Hemisphere With Binoculars Or Telescopes0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2016
NASA is reporting that on New Year’s Eve, comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova is going to be visible from locations in the Northern Hemisphere, including New York City and London.
Scientists plan on contacting the closest Earth-like exoplanet to our Solar System0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2016
Scientists are making preparations to send a transmission to Proxima b – the closest Earth-like exoplanet to our Solar System.
China plans to land probes on far side of moon, Mars by 20200
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2016
China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020.
The Edge of Physics: Do Gravitons Really Exist?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 29, 2016
According to physicists, it will be a long time before gravitons are considered part of the established subatomic pantheon.
“Hidden Mass” of the Universe Has Decreased Since Big Bang –“May Still Be Disintegrating”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2016
The universe is suspected to be loosing its mass ever since the big bang.
More fast radio bursts detected from same location0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 24, 2016
Repeated wave blasts suggest nondestructive event as source
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