| China leads in outer space pollution: Russian space agency China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the US and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said... | |
| 'Most ancient' animal species on Earth discovered in Scotland A rare shrimp, believed to be the most ancient animal species on Earth, is alive and well in Scotland, discovered... |
| World's oldest surviving creature found in Britain A rare shrimp that may be the most ancient animal species on earth is alive and well in Britain, scientists have... |
| 1.5 km wide asteroid on collision course with Earth in 50 years Scientists are warning that we need to start blasting asteroids before they collide with Earth - the latest threat being asteroid 1999 RQ36 - set to hit the Earth in 50... |
| Ambitious Venus Mission Ideas Include Robots, Planes, Humans The surface of Venus in infrared, as depicted by the Magellan spacecraft. While not molten any longer, Venus' atmosphere blankets the planet to maintain lead-melting air temperatures--a similar... |
| NASA's Moon Program Slowdown Within the Law, Report Finds As the sun rises over Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure and the arms of the vehicle stabilization system have been retracted from around the... |
| Some space shuttle workers get layoff notice CAPE CANAVERAL Florida (Reuters) - NASA's prime space shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance, sent layoff notices this week to more than 15 percent of its 8,100-member shuttle work force,... |
| NOAA: State of the Climate, 2009 State of the Climate report released today draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable. More than... |
| Male Modesty A Turn Off For Women Posted on: Friday, 30 July 2010, 07:20 CDT Macho, macho man. I’ve got to be, a macho man. Macho, macho man. I’ve got to be a macho! — The Village PeopleIt’s more than 30 years since that... |
| Global Earth Energy Doubles Capacity With Opening of New State-of-the-Art Facility GLER ) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary RCI Solar, Inc., a North American provider of renewable energy products and services, has opened a new, 15,000 square foot, state-of-the-art... |
| Commercial Spaceflight Supporters Rally to Stall Vote on NASA Bill WASHINGTON — A flurry of behind-the-scenes maneuvering took place late Wednesday as opponents of a NASA authorization bill fought back efforts by leaders of the U.S. House Science and... |
| Rare Find: Failed Star Circling Sun-Like Star The sun-like star, PZ Tel A and its brown dwarf companion, PZ Tel B. For size comparison, the size of Neptune's orbit is shown; PZ Tel B is one of few brown dwarfs imaged at a distance closer than 30... |
| Cosmic Trojans may sneak comets towards Earth THE Trojan horse of legend held in its belly the men and means to help sack ancient Troy. Now it appears another type of Trojan could endanger every life on Earth. So says a study of the Trojan... |
| Satellite quantum communication circles closer Communications protected by quantum encryption systems offer unconditional security – if you know which way is up. A new quantum protocol is the first that promises to work independently of... |
| Claims Five: When Harbinger met Sea The Stars | Chris Cook Sea The Stars is nowhere to be seen as Harbinger comes home 11 lengths clear in the King George at Ascot last Saturday. Photograph: Stefan... |
| China leads in outer space pollution - Russian space agency China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the United States and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Friday. All... |
| Is a cosmic chameleon driving galaxies apart? At that point our friendly cosmologist might give voice to a little embarrassment. Because if measurements of the distance to faraway supernovae are to be believed, around 5 billion years ago the... |
| Japan in pact for rare earth exploration in Namibia Submit your comment State-backed Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp has agreed with Namibia to explore and develop mineral resources, especially rare earth and rare metals, it said on Friday,... |
| Cassini Helps With Dune Whodunit Cassini radar sees sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan (upper photo) that are sculpted like Namibian sand dunes on Earth (lower photo). The bright features in the upper radar photo are not clouds... |
| Greening The Moon And Mars Future manned missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say. Now they hope to launch new experiments to follow up... |
| Brown Dwarf Found Orbiting A Young Sun-Like Star The range of sizes of a brown dwarf compared to Jupiter and the Sun and the Earth (to scale). Brown Dwarfs are more massive than planets but less massive than stars. But they have similar diameters... |
| 'Welfare robots' to ease burden in greying Japan Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly. To ease the burden... |
| Wyle Scientist To Study Stress In Haughton-Mars Project Spaceflight Analog A remote Canadian island is being used to simulate isolated space flight conditions for a NASA-funded medical research study that could produce important information to assist astronauts in potential... |
| Japan experts call for robot expedition to moon An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020. ... |
| Rocks On Mars May Provide Link To Evidence Of Living Organisms Roughly 4 Billion Years Ago A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The... |
| Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View This is the first dust devil that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six-and-a-half years on Mars. The whirlwind appeared in a routine drive-direction image taken... |
| ViewRanger GPS Outdoor Navigation Tool Now Available GPS ViewRanger is the perfect companion for outdoor enthusiasts including campers and hikers, as well as field-based applications such as search-and-rescue. National Geographic recently selected... |
| INRIX Expands The Largest Traffic Network In Europe INRIX has announced it has expanded its European real-time traffic coverage to 18 countries making it the largest traffic network in Europe. With the launch of real-time traffic information in... |
| Planetary Society Urges Debate On NASA Authorization Bill The Planetary Society has issued a statement about the request that the U.S. House of Representatives suspend the rules when voting on the NASA Authorization bill: The U.S. House of Representatives... |
| Navigation That Makes Sense Of Life's Twists And Turns Garmin-Asus and Optus have announced a smartphone designed for those looking for a true 'all-in-one' navigation experience to help make sense of life's twists and turns. The Garmin-Asus A50,... |
| Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry. This is gang... |
| Dune 'Whodunit' on Saturn's Moon Titan The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists... |
| Cosmic Log: Showdown over space policy Quantum fluctuations in space, science and exploration, from the Large Hadron Collider to Hubble, Mars and beyond. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science... |
| What's that weird thing around Saturn's second-largest moon? In 2008, researchers detected a sharp, symmetrical drop in electrons around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. This could be caused by a ring of debris, but the Cassini spacecraft, which has flown... |
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| Google Earth Starts To Depict Rain, Snow Buzz This Google Earth is meant to give its users a realistic view of the world, and the program by and large accomplishes that. A new upgrade will make it even more accurate, though, by showing... |
| Ring Around Rhea? Probably Not Rhea, taken by the Cassini spacecraft in March, 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Back in 2005, a suite of six instruments on the Cassini spacecraft detected what was thought to be an... |
| Antarctic Observatory Finds Weird Pattern of Cosmic Rays This "skymap," generated in 2009 from data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, shows the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere.... |
| Opportunity Rover Captures Her First Dust Devil on Mars This is the first dust devil that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six-and-a-half years on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Texas A&M... |
| Extreme Close-Up of the Face on Mars The 'face' on Mars, a popular landform in Cydonia Region on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Here's a picture you probably won't see in the tabloid racks while waiting in line... |
| New Geek Destination: Klingon Cave Tours Star Trek: The Experience" is no longer open, here's the next best thing. A company is getting ready to provide self-guided tours of the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney, Australia, and one of... |
| Where In The Universe Challenge #113 what it is. Post your guesses in the comments section, and check back on later at this same post to find the answer. To make this challenge fun for everyone, please don’t include links or extensive... |
| This Week in Space — Apollo-Soyuz Anniversary Edition Space " with Miles O'Brien, but it is a special edition that takes a look at the 35th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz project with exclusive interviews, and more. There's also a look at... |
| Stunning New Image of Wolf-Rayet Star and the Carina Nebula Wolf–Rayet stars are named after the two French astronomers who first identified them in the mid-nineteenth century, and WR 22 is one of the most massive ones we know of. It is a member of a double... |
| Tools Get Loose During ISS Spacewalk Space Station earlier today, outfitting the newest module for future dockings of Russian vehicles. Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko set up the Kurs automated rendezvous on the... |
| Carnival of Space #164 carnivalofspace@gmail.com , and the next host will link to it. It will help get awareness out there about your writing, help you meet others in the space community – and community is what blogging... |
| Panel OKs report seeking lunar exploration using robots+ TOKYO, July 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)An advisory panel on Thursday adopted a report that urges the Japanese government to implement a 200 billion yen moon exploration program using robots, including... |
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