space

Faintest early-universe galaxy ever, detected and confirmed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
Astronomers have discovered the youngest galaxy ever born.

By David Aragorn
Van Allen Probes reveal long-term behavior of Earth’s ring current 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 20, 2016
New findings based on a year’s worth of observations from NASA’s Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current – an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet – behaves in a much different way than previously understood.

By David Aragorn
Galactic ‘gold mine’ explains the origin of nature’s heaviest elements 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 19, 2016
Distant neutron stars colliding into each other gives scientists clues to the creation of our world’s r-process elements.

By David Aragorn
Stellar mystery deepens 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 18, 2016
Using recent advancements in Australian telescope technology, a Monash University-led research team has made an unexpected discovery that a large group of stars are dying prematurely, challenging our accepted view of stellar evolution.

By David Aragorn
Supernova reserve fuel tank clue to big parents 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 18, 2016
Some supernovae have a reserve tank of radioactive fuel that cuts in and powers their explosions for three times longer than astronomers had previously thought.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers discover a Neptune-mass alien world with Earth-like density 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2016
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like exoplanet that is the size of Neptune.

By David Aragorn
8.8 billion habitable Earth-size planets exist in Milky Way alone 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2016
There are about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, with 40 billion of them like our sun.

By Around the Web Editor
The Moon-Walking, Alien-Hunting, Psychic Astronaut Who Got Sued By NASA 0
- From Around the Web
- May 17, 2016
Mitchell pointed out that UFO sightings were common near military bases, but not necessarily because they were actually just experimental aircraft or weapons tests: the alien presence was a warning.

By Around the Web Editor
The Mystery of the ‘Only Camera to Come Back from the Moon’0
- From Around the Web
- May 17, 2016
But Coeln, the auctioneer, produced another bit of proof ahead of the auction on Saturday: “It has moon dust on it,”

By Around the Web Editor
Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR 0
- Featured Videos, Space
- May 12, 2016
This sequence of images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Comet 252P/LINEAR as it passed by Earth. The visit was one of the closest encounters between a comet and our planet.

By David Aragorn