ESA

Over 23,000 people have applied to become ESA astronauts this year.

That's a record.

Greenland

 Space Age technology is revealing a landscape under the ice sheets of Greenland that includes mountains, lakes, and evidence of a meteoritic impact.

It also includes the longest canyon in the world.

B;ack Holes

 Computer simulations suggest a huge number of supermassive black holes could be ranging across the universe.

Possibly a dozen could be patrolling the edges of the Milky Way alone.

Comets

 A new study suggests thrre may be more interstellar comets whipping through this solar system than we know.

Indeed, most of the material in the Oort Cloud might be from outsde.

Nelson

 NASA chief  Bill Nelson reiterated this week in Denver that he expects to land Americans on the Moon by 2024.

That is supposed to include the first woman on the Moon.

ispace

 Tokyo-based ispace is building a 9-foot tall lunar lander.

It's designed to be able to land anywhere on the Moon and survive the lunar night.

UFO

 Investigative reporter Leslie Kean, in an interview with Space.com, says a government task force is needed to push the UFO story forward.

She also says the government has photos and video far superior to what has been released.

Dust

 Scientists have found that even small dust storms have played a role in drying out Mars.

Storms throw dust into the air and the dust pushes water molecules higher into the atmosphere where they are broken apart by ultraviolet radiation.

Asteroids

 Asteroids are full of precious metals and other valuable mineral resources.  They also often contain water.

To mine them, some are saying, instead of going into deep space, we should bring asteroids into Earth orbit.

Cattle Mutilations

 Tucker Carlson reports there's a clear connection between UFOs and cattle mutilations.

Linda Moulton Howe has been reporting that for forty years.

Curiosity

 Climbing Mount Sharp. Curiosity has reached layers of drier rock.

They could tell us how Mars' climate died out.

Broken Arm

 Astronomers have found a sort of break in one spiral arm of the Milky Way.

Now they need to determine how it happened.

Ingenuity

 Ingenuity flew its twelfth time on Mars recently.

It was a scouting foray for Perseverance.

Musk

 According to CNBC, Elon Musk said over the weekend that Starship will be stacked for orbital flight in a few weeks.

He also recently said SpaceX could fly humans to the Moon before 2024.

UFO

 Two planes-- one military and one airliner-- reported seeing a bright green UFO over Canada on July 30.

Exactly what was seen has not yet been determined.

Starliner

 Boeing's Starliner capsule is still grounded.  No new launch date has been set.

The problem seems to be sticky valves.

Perseverance

 Perseverance's first attempt to collect samples failed.

Engineers are trying to determine what went wrong.

Gale

 Mars' Gale crater may have had several small, transient lakes through time, not one large, enduring one, according to a new study.

That would cut down the chances for life.

Hot Jupiter

 Scientists have not understood why Jupiter's upper atmosphere is so hot so far from the sun.  Now they think the heat is linked to the planet's aurorae.

The upper atmosphere is about as hot as the surface of Venus.

Starship

 Elon Musk's Starship atop the Super Heavy booster is the tallest rocket ever.

It stands 395 feet tall.

L 98=59

 L 98-59 is a red dwarf about 35 light years from Earth which has three planets in its habitable zone, all of which could be similar to Earth.

The arrangement is similar to the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Ticket

 Virgin Galactic is selling spaceeflight tickets.

The basic price is $450,000.

Curiosity

Curiosity has now been on Mars for nine Earth years.

It has been a remarkable mission.

Perdpective

 CVS Health has announced quarterly revenues of over $72 billion.

That's more then triple NASA's annual budget.

UFO

     UFO researchers hold there have been many crash landings of alien craft around the world.

So.They have the skill and technology to get here across light years, but regularly crash?

Iceland

 A new study suggests-- contrary to current mainstream thought-- that Iceland is the last remnant of an ancient continent.

The new theory says the continent slipped beneath the waves 10 million years ago.