space

Scientists confirm the universe has no direction 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 23, 2016
The universe is not spinning or stretched in any particular direction, according to the most stringent test yet.

By David Aragorn
Hubble finds planet orbiting pair of stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 22, 2016
Two’s company, but three might not always be a crowd — at least in space.

By David Aragorn
China Space Station Is Falling To Earth: Tiangong 1 Confirmed To Be Out Of Control And Headed Straight For Us While Replacement Blasts Off?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 22, 2016
The Chinese space station Tiangong 1 is indeed failing and is slowly headed towards the Earth. While China’s first space laboratory will make a fiery reentry in the second half of 2017, its replacement has already left Earth, indicated Chinese officials.

By David Aragorn
New NASA budget could put asteroid grabbing mission in jeopardy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2016
A NASA plan to lasso a piece of an asteroid and haul it closer to Earth could face a threat from the US Congress. A bipartisan spending bill introduced in the Senate this week has harsh words about the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission, which is meant to be a sort of dry run for a future human mission to Mars.

By David Aragorn
A Splendor Seldom Seen 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2016
Until recently, we’ve never seen the planet Saturn from the dark side of it, but now Cassini has given us a beautiful sight of a back-lit Saturn.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Voyager I hit by third solar ‘tsunami’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2016
After traveling for 37 years, Voyager I is recording pulses from the sun that confirm it has entered a different region near the edge of the solar system called interstellar space.

By David Aragorn
From Water Power To EmDrive, The Quest To Put Tiny Satellites Into Orbit 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 18, 2016
The spacefaring nations of the world are competing with private companies to build an economy in orbit, colonize the moon, and exploit resources from passing asteroids, but to reach other planets something more is needed.

By David Aragorn
Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 15, 2016
There’s a party in the galactic centre. We may have found the first solid evidence of a dense conference of stars around the Milky Way’s heart, which may one day help us observe the supermassive black hole living there.

By David Aragorn
‘Shangri-La’ On Saturn Moon Titan Teeming With Sand Dunes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 15, 2016
New close-up photos of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, show its mysterious and massive dunes in more detail than ever before.

By David Aragorn
New Horizons discovery raises solar wind riddle around Pluto 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 15, 2016
The New Horizons probe has uncovered another Plutonian mystery – this time involving the solar wind.

By David Aragorn