Wanna Trip To Space? To Raise Money, Mars One Is Offering A Lynx Joyride
Private trips to space are pricey, but from time to time contests come up that offer even those of modest…
Rosetta’s Cloudy Comet Shroud Spotted From The Ground, While Spacecraft Picks Up Dust Grains
This picture shows it is possible to look at Rosetta's comet from Earth, but what a lot of work it…
Guide to Tonight’s Big Harvest Moon
Tonight, September 8, the Harvest Moon rises the color of a fall leaf and spills its light across deserts, forests, oceans and cities.…
Sweet Success for SpaceX with Second Successful AsiaSat Launch This Summer
Shortly after midnight this morning, Sunday, Sept. 7, SpaceX scored a major success with the spectacular night time launch of…
Speed Demon Asteroid Sprints Safely Past Earth Today
Earth-approaching asteroid 2014 RC ripped pass Earth today, got its orbit refashioned by our planet's gravity and now bids us adieu. I…
MAVEN Mars Orbiter Ideally Poised to Uniquely Map Comet Siding Spring Composition – Exclusive Interview with Principal Investigator Bruce Jakosky
MAVEN to conduct up close observations of Comet Siding Spring during Oct. 2014 MAVEN is NASA’s next Mars Orbiter and…
Weekly Space Hangout – Sept. 5, 2014 – Summer Story Review!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Thad Szabo (@astrothad) Matthew Francis (CosmoAcademy.org, @DrMRFrancis)…
What Would It Be Like To Fall Into A Black Hole?
Let's say you happened to fall into the nearest black hole? What would you experience and see? And what would…
Second Possible Proto-Planet Found In System Pretty Close To Earth
Astronomers have found what they believe is a second protoplanet around HD100546, a youngster star that may also host a…
Space Station’s Robonaut 2 Is Getting More Astronaut-Like By The Day
NASA's large space station robot now has legs and a plan to (eventually) head outside to do spacewalks, to replace…