space

A Japanese Startup Will Try to Land on the Moon Next Year 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 24, 2016
Google Lunar X-Prize contestant Team HAKUTO has a promising rover that will be launched to the moon in the new year.

By David Aragorn
The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Should Include Alien Defense Systems, Scientists Suggest 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 23, 2016
A couple of scientists have considered how the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is conducted and, working off the idea that sufficiently advanced alien beings would at least attempt to build defensive structures around their world to defend against potentially catastrophic extraplanetary threats, suggest that one way such beings might be found would be through their defense systems. In fact, the scientists contend, the aliens would not necessarily have to be much more advanced than humans.

By David Aragorn
China Trumps NASA With Working “StarTrek” EM Propulsion Drive –“Testing Now Aboard the Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory”0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 22, 2016
Scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) claim NASA’s results ‘re-confirm’ what they’d already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites ‘as quickly as possible.’

By David Aragorn
3 MASSIVE, perfectly aligned towers discovered on the surface of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- December 22, 2016
Located in the area of Terra Meridiani, researchers have spotted three massive ‘Towers’ on the Martian Surface that are so perfectly aligned, that just as the Pyramids of Giza on Earth, these Martian towers seem to mimic the constellation of Orion.

By David Aragorn
Are Mars’ Dark Streaks Really Evidence of Liquid Water?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2016
The intriguing story of Mars’ mysterious dark streaks may have a new twist.

By David Aragorn
STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 20, 2016
All you need is a wormhole, the Large Hadron Collider or a rocket that goes really, really fast.

By David Aragorn
Crash Course 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 20, 2016
Saturn’s moon, Mimas, is on a crash course through Saturn’s rings as it gets closer to the planet’s surface.

By David Aragorn
Rosetta’s last words—science descending to a comet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2016
ESA’s Rosetta completed its incredible mission on 30 September, collecting unprecedented images and data right until the moment of contact with the comet’s surface.

By David Aragorn
One of Saturn’s moons may be our best option for life after Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2016
Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, is probably the best option to sustain life for future generations.

By David Aragorn
Dwarf planet Ceres is flush with ice, NASA studies show 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2016
The dwarf planet Ceres, an enigmatic rocky body inhabiting the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is rich with ice just beneath its dark surface, scientists said on Thursday in research that may shed light on the early history of the solar system.

By David Aragorn