space

How upcoming missions to Mars will help predict its wild dust storms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
Future trips by rovers and astronauts will need better forecasts to survive dangerous weather

By David Aragorn
4 mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
There’s something unusual lurking out in the depths of space: Astronomers have discovered four faint objects that at radio wavelengths are highly circular and brighter along their edges. And they’re unlike any class of astronomical object ever seen before.

By David Aragorn
‘We are all Martians!’: space explorers seek to solve the riddle of life on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
With the red planet’s launch window about to open, the US, China and the UAE are all sending craft to look for answers

By David Aragorn
Scientists propose plan to determine if Planet Nine is a primordial black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
Scientists at Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and along with it, determine once-and-for-all the true nature of the hypothesized Planet Nine. The paper, accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, highlights the ability of the future Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) mission to observe accretion flares, the presence of which could prove or rule out Planet Nine as a black hole.

By David Aragorn
Comet captured streaking across Stonehenge night sky 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2020
A comet has been captured on camera streaking across the skies over Stonehenge.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Nasa asteroid mission passes key milestone 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 13, 2020
Design review stage passed for craft intended to visit iron-and-nickel mini-world in 2026

By David Aragorn
White dwarfs reveal new insights into the origin of carbon in the universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2020
A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

By David Aragorn
Nasa Mars rover Perseverance is attached to rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 10, 2020
Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet.

By David Aragorn
Weird green gel-like substance found on the moon finally identified 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2020
No, it’s not space snot.

By David Aragorn
Space Force proposes headquarters staff led by generals and civilians 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 9, 2020
Maj. Gen. Chance Saltzman wil serve as acting staff director of the Office of the Chief of Space Operations.

By David Aragorn