Cool science stuff

SpaceX succeeds in landing an orbital rocket booster safely for potential re-use, which can substantially reduce the cost of space exploration.

Musk says they hope to be able to re-launch a used booster sometime next year.

The Falcon Has Landed! Epic Views of SpaceX's Amazing Rocket Landing

 

And Jeff Bezos snarked about it...before Twitter put him in his place.

Jeff Bezos won't let Elon Musk just have this moment of SpaceX victory

 

That is awesome. This is a fantastic time to be alive.

 

Scientists hope to photograph black hole's event horizon next year. Could allow them to test relativity in ways never done before.

Event Horizon Telescope Prepares To Take First Black Hole Picture

 

We need some reporters in the science world, stat!

Seems "reliable sources" are whispering the new observatory searching for the elusive gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's relativity has at last detected them. But are the rumors true?

Scientists may have detected gravity waves for the first time ever

 

Wow, event horizon pics and gravity waves - both amazing.

Thanks for posting those. Great stuff.

 

Meanwhile, I new front has opened in the coming Drone Wars.

 

It seems the alien megastructure theory is still in play for "Tabby's star" (KIC 8462852) as the leading conventional theory for the star's odd behavior -- a swarm of large comets -- is apparently ruled out when a check of past photographic records show the star has been steadily dimming for almost 100 years.

Comets can’t explain weird ‘alien megastructure’ star after all

 

Suck it, Pluto: A much larger ninth planet may be orbiting far beyond Neptune.

Planet 9, a 'New Pluto,' Discovered in Our Solar System

 

Coming soon: A way to finally detect a trace of dark matter (maybe).

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-speed-trap-for-dark-matter

 

Don't know if you all caught this one earlier this month, but there was a mysterious 'bump' at hadron collider:
Physicists offer theories to explain mysterious collision at Large Hadron Collider // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame

 

Scientists might have discovered a new ninth planet, for now creatively named "Planet Nine."
Suck it, Pluto.

Ninth planet may have been discovered, researchers say - CNN.com