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9 Dec 2013
- 22:15 UTC The Daily Galaxy NASA Presents Hesperian-Era Evidence that Mars Could Have... In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory has determined the age of a Martian rock, found evidence the planet could have ...
- 22:13 UTC Urban Astronomer NASA's WISE decision In September this year, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope was reactivated to begin its new mission (NEOWISE) to search for and classify potentially hazardous Near-Earth Objects, like ...
- 22:10 UTC Lunar Networks It's not bragging if you do it Climbing high over the central Pacific, a forward camera on the Long March 3B third stage captured the deployment of Chang'e-3 on its 112 hour "Journey to the Moon." Launched ...
- 21:59 UTC Astro Watch First Age Measurement on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year ...
- 21:58 UTC New Scientist Alien life could have basked in big bang's afterglow The cosmic radiation that existed about 15 million years after the big bang could have made the whole universe warm enough to support life
- 21:56 UTC SPACE.com Northern Lights Dance Over Maine Farmhouse in Stunning Ph... Northern Lights dance over a farmhouse in this jaw-dropping night sky photo recently sent to SPACE.com.
- 21:52 UTC Space Fellowship Hidden Details Revealed in Nearby Starburst Galaxy: Green... Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82. These new ...
- 21:51 UTC Space Fellowship Station Crew Supports Science, Preps for Cargo Ship Captu... The six-person Expedition 38 crew of the International Space Station began the week Monday supporting a variety of scientific experiments, performing maintenance activities and preparing for the arrival of the ...
- 21:47 UTC AMSAT-UK Say Hi to Juno – Presentation In a post on the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Andy Thomas G0SFJ informs us of a presentation on Tuesday, December 10 regarding the amateur radio “Say Hi to Juno” project. ...
- 21:43 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Mars Radiation Risk 'Manageable' for Human Missions The risk of radiation exposure is not a show-stopper for a long-term manned mission to Mars, new results from NASA's Curiosity rover suggest.
- 21:39 UTC SPACE.com Looks Like a Comet But Feels Like an Asteroid? That's Wil... Scientists had always characterized comets and asteroids as completely different before NASA's Stardust Mission.
- 21:36 UTC e! Science News Hidden details revealed in nearby starburst galaxy Using the new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have captured never-before-seen details of the nearby starburst galaxy M82. These new ...
- 21:35 UTC e! Science News CU-Boulder scientist: 2012 solar storm points up need fo... A massive ejection of material from the sun initially traveling at over 7 million miles per hour that narrowly missed Earth last year is an event solar scientists hope will ...
- 21:31 UTC Sky and Telescope New View of Saturn's Hexagon
- 21:30 UTC Lunar Networks "Lunar Aspirations" - Beijing Review Saleswoman in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, displays a model of China's lunar rover, Yutu, on December 4, 2013 [Wu Lu/Beijing Review].Yuan YuanBeijing Review.com.cnAfter 10 years of space exploration efforts, China has ...
- 21:21 UTC Space Fellowship NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Expl... NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year ...
- 21:14 UTC Astro Watch IRIS Provides Unprecedented Images of Sun The region located between the surface of the sun and its atmosphere has been revealed as a more violent place than previously understood, according to images and data from NASA's ...
- 21:12 UTC Universe Today See What the Moon Will Look Like in All of 2014 in Just 5... Here’s how the Moon will look to us on Earth during the entire year of 2014. Using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization ...
- 21:08 UTC JP Aerospace Blog Mach Two Shock Tube We’re getting ready to start testing the airship’s drag reduction systems. The main tool we will be using is a mach two shock tube. A shock tube is a very ...
- 21:00 UTC SPACE.com Amateur Astronomer Sees Jupiter, 2 Moons & a Shadow (Phot... Andrew Kwon took this image of Jupiter on Nov. 20 from his backyard observatory in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
- 20:53 UTC Astro Watch China-Brazil Satellite Fails to Enter Orbit A joint Chinese-Brazilian high-resolution remote-sensing satellite CBERS-3 failed to enter orbit after its launch earlier Monday, military sources said. "The rocket malfunctioned during the flight, and the satellite failed to ...
- 20:44 UTC The New York Times Out There: ‘The Unbelievers’ Chronicles Road Tripping Sci... In the new documentary “The Unbelievers,” an engaging, if contrasting, pair of scientists set off on a worldwide tour to promote reason.
- 20:34 UTC Artsnova Digital Ar... Roadmap to Space Settlement 2014 International Student Ar... The National Space Society (NSS) has announced its Roadmap to Space Settlement 2014 International Student Art Contest, a contest for which I am one of the art judges. Art must ...
- 20:31 UTC SPACE.com Orbital Sciences Names Next Private Space Station Freight... The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to fly to the International Space Station has been named for Gordon Fullerton, the late NASA astronaut who helped to deploy air-launched rockets built by ...
- 20:28 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Curiosity's Latest News From Mars Hey Space Placers!NASA's Curiosity rover has been busy on Mars. Latest from American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference being held this week in San Francisco.NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and ...
- 20:18 UTC Astro Watch Northumberland Hopes to Turn 'Dark Sky Park' Into Star At... The last stretch of England that rolls and dips from Hadrian's wall to the Scottish border loses none of its beauty in the winter months. Yet as the days get ...
- 20:18 UTC The Planetary Socie... The Sorry State of Planetary Science Funding In One Chart If you want to know why Cassini might be terminated early, or why NASA pulled out of its joint Mars mission with Europe, or why the new ASRG power source ...
- 20:05 UTC e! Science News Ancient fresh water lake on Mars could have sustained lif... Scientists have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support life, in research published recently in the journal Science. read ...
- 20:05 UTC Universe Today Astrophoto: Zodiacal Light at Dawn Sometimes, if you are lucky, dawn comes before the dawn. The zodiacal light – or false dawn, as it is sometimes called – is an ethereal light extending up from ...
- 20:04 UTC Astro Watch NASA Engineers Crush Giant Fuel Tank To Improve Rocket De... Think of it as high-tech can crushing. Only the can is enormous, as big as part of the largest rocket ever made. During a series of tests from Dec. 9-13 ...
- 19:57 UTC Galileo's Pendulum Our backyard black hole (Science Advent 9) (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image and description.) Day 9 The Milky Way’s black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, in radio (blue) and X-ray (magenta) light. ...
- 19:54 UTC Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 325: Cold Fusion The Universe is filled with hot fusion, in the cores of stars. And scientists have even been able to replicate this stellar process in expensive experiments. But wouldn’t it be ...
- 19:41 UTC NPR Curiosity Finds Evidence Of Ancient Fresh-Water Lake On M... Scientists say an analysis of fine-grained sedimentary mudstones points to a low-salinity lake at Gale Crater some 3.7 billion years ago.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
- 19:36 UTC Astro Bob Titan, a place to stretch your wings and fly Feeling hemmed in by winter? Held back by cold? Time to consider a Web vacation to Saturn’s largest moon Titan. One thing’s for sure, the place has a lot of ...
- 19:29 UTC NASA Watch SLS/Orion/Webb Immortality Bill Markup Turning SLS and Orion into Entitlements (Update: Webb Too), earlier post "If passed into law, H.R. 3625 would make it exceptionally difficult to ever halt SLS, Orion, or Webb or ...
- 19:29 UTC AMSAT-UK $50SAT team seek help from radio hams The $50SAT team is asking for help in capturing telemetry from the amateur radio $50SAT PocketQube satellite. We are trying to determine the charging characteristics of the power system. The ...
- 19:22 UTC The Mars Society NASA Rover Results Include First Age Measurement on Mars ... By NASA News, 12.09.13NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.In a little more than ...
- 19:08 UTC Universe Today Book Review and Giveaway: The Constellation Observing Atl... Here is another giveaway just in time for the holidays: The Constellation Observing Atlas by Grant Privett and Kevin Jones. Springer and Universe Today are giving away free copies to ...
- 19:03 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Smog Shrouds Eastern China December 2013 brought eastern China a bout of thick haze that stretched from Beijing to Shanghai.
- 19:03 UTC Astro Watch Fireball Seen Over Norway Fireball over Odda, Norway may be a meteor. The Norwegian Meteor Network are asking people to be aware aorund Ringdal lake in Odda. There may have rained meteorites this week. ...
- 19:02 UTC The Daily Galaxy Zeroing In on Gulf 0f Mexico Remnants of Colossal Impact ... Sixty five million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into a shallow sea near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The resulting firestorm and global dust cloud ...
- 19:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: the wonderful star II The variable star Mira is high in the northern sky. It is a red giant star with a bloated atmosphere that is 200 times the width of our Sun. When ...
- 19:00 UTC Women in Astronomy NSF's Career-Life Balance Initiative: A Small Success Sto... Guest Post: The below post was submitted anonymously by an astronomy post-doc. I recently was in one of those exciting conversations with an NSF Program Officer in which s/he is ...
- 18:50 UTC Skymania News NASA finds Mars lake could have been teeming with life This is a post from Skymania News - Space and astronomy news and advice NASA scientists have identified the site of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars that could once ...
- 18:47 UTC MessageToEagle.com Dust May Be More Rare Than Expected In Galaxies Of The Ea... Dust - very important for the formation of stars - may be more rare than expected in galaxies of the early Universe, a new study shows...
- 18:33 UTC Meteorwatch International Space Station – UK ISS Passes December 2013 UK ISS Pass details for December 2013 The International Space Station (ISS) is back over UK skies with some great passes during December 2013. The ISS is the largest Space ...
- 18:23 UTC Universe Today Take a Virtual Spin Around Mars’ North Pole Get a satellite’s-eye view of the Martian north pole in this new animation from the Mars Express spacecraft, using data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding ...
- 18:21 UTC SPACE.com Curiosity: Mars Radiation Not Too High For Humans (but..)... The Mars Science Laboratory radiation detector, in operation for over a year on the Red Planet, is showing levels that are manageable for human exploration but the planet has not ...
- 18:13 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... LROC’s View of Sinus Iridum LROC gives us this view of the Sinus Iridum and the general area. China is planning on putting a lander in this region and have just successfully put the spacecraft ...
- 18:08 UTC One-Minute Astronom... A Naked-Eye Nova in Centaurus A bright nova popped last week in the southern constellation Centaurus. Formally called Nova Centauri 2013 (or Nova Cen 2013), it was discovered December 3 by nova hunter John Seach ...