NASA beefs up security after laptop theft.
ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because […]
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Cold planet Mars.
Nature reveals a setback in the search for life on Mars. We’re learning more about the atmosphere there, and there doesn’t seem to be enough […]
Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared. found on archive.org (pdf).
Happy 12 years in space, ISS astronauts.
Mount Washington Valley Astronomy marks a dozen years of humans living in space: On the 12th anniversary of crews continuously living and working aboard the […]
Alien communication: More like Twitter, less like War and Peace.
Digital Journal points out that we might already be in contact with aliens – we’re just not looking for the right kind of messages: The […]
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)”
SONG: “Hi There! (We’re Robots From Earth)” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Mars rover Curiosity zaps ‘Coronation’ rock […]
Our ROBOT is SHOOTING LASERS at MARS.
How can Christian Science Monitor be so calm about this? Curiosity is on an alien planet vaporizing stuff with lasers: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has […]
A new, magnetic atom
ArsTechnica looks into the fiery plasma of a blazing neutron star to discover a bizarre frontier of physics based on stuff that’s made from a […]
Planets stay in the dark – for want of the money to see them.
Scientific American editorializes on the planetary implications of NASA’s budget being cut: The president’s proposed budget for 2013 includes drastic cutbacks to planetary science of […]
Science Art: Artist concept of proposed mission to the Jupiter system, NASA/JPL, 2009
This is concept art originally painted to help NASA and ESA imagine what it might be like to explore Jupiter and its moons Ganymede and […]
“Splashdown Successful!”
Elon Musk celebrates his historic spacecraft’s return home – in less than 140 characters.
Here’s why Pioneer slowed down…
Physics World has a solution for the Pioneer Anomaly – the strange slowdown experienced by both Pioneer space probes as they passed beyond the farthest […]
NASA wants your Mars ideas.
The space administration needs YOU – and your vision of what we should do on Mars: “This is a two-way capability open to anyone,” says […]
Live in Hawaii. Pretend it’s Mars. Eat space food. Get paid.
Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan: We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii […]
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!”
SONG: “Antarctica Awakes!” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake”, Washington […]