January 18, 2017
An experimental Japanese micro-satellite launch rocket failed to reach orbit with its payload.
http://www.space.com/35341-experimental-japanese-rocket-launch-fails.html
SpaceX successfully returned to orbit with the launch of a 10-satellite payload aboard a Falcon 9 booster, and a successful return rocket landing. The payload of communications satellites achieved low earth orbit.
http://www.space.com/35338-spacex-return-to-flight-rocket-launch-landing-success.html
As the Cassini spacecraft winds down its final year of exploration, scientists look back on the 12-year anniversary of the Huygens lander which touched down on Saturn's moon Titan following its journey to Saturn aboard the Cassini spacecraft.
http://www.space.com/35315-saturn-moon-titan-landing-anniversary-huygens.html
A new study suggests that methanogens, some of the simplest and earliest life forms to exist on Earth, could survive under the low atmospheric pressures of a simulated Martian environment.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/16/scientists-find-lifes-most-ancient-ancestors-could-actually-survive-on-mars/
Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft has identified a planet-wide atmospheric disturbance on Venus that is believed to have been caused by mountainous terrain on the planet's surface.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/01/16/venus-atmosphere-bow-wave/#.WH4IVtQrLs0
Citizen scientists continue to play a role in parsing together imagery from NASA's Juno spacecraft, as it orbits Jupiter.
http://www.space.com/35334-crescent-jupiter-great-red-spot-photo.html
A new study has suggested that, despite existing within the habitable zone of its parent star, the closest confirmed exoplanet - which orbits Proxima Centauri - was likely desiccated early in its history, rendering it a desert waste unsuitable for life.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/proxima-centauri-b-likely-a-desert-world/
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