Space News
French Satellite Spots Objects in Search for Malaysian Flight 370
SPACE.com - 23 Mar 2014 22:10
A third set of images, this one from a French satellite, show potential objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean that could be linked to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing since March 8, when it d...
Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - March 23, 2014
SPACE.com - 23 Mar 2014 19:43
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
Sirius, UFO trickster extraordinaire
Universe Today - 23 Mar 2014 18:17
Scintillating Sirius is sometimes mistaken for a UFO I’ve never seen a UFO that stayed a UFO. I remember certain moving lights as a kid but they turned out to be airplanes or geese aglow with light pollution. And who h...
Cassini Spies Wind-Rippled Waves on Titan
SPACE.com - 23 Mar 2014 16:17
New observations from NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft show what appear to be glints of sunlight bouncing off a wind-rippled lake on the moon Titan.
Astronaut's 'Taste The Stars' Dinner Menu Features Real Meteorite Sauce
SPACE.com - 23 Mar 2014 16:10
An astronaut has brought the taste of space down to Earth while elevating space food to new heights. Franklin Chang Diaz, a veteran of seven shuttle flights, and the chefs at the Four Seasons Resort in Costa Rica present...
Seeing Equinoxes and Solstices from Space
SpaceRef - 23 Mar 2014 13:48
One of the most frequently misunderstood concepts in science is the reason for Earth's seasons. As we experience the September equinox today--anyone try to balance an egg yet?--we thought we'd offer a space-based view of...
Wind-Blown Ice Creates Frigid Fingers Over Lake Michigan
Bad Astronomy - 23 Mar 2014 13:45
One of the reasons NASA's Earth Observatory Image of the Day--and there are many--is at the top of my feed reader is that sometimes they teach me a whole thing I knew nothing about. Like ice stringers! That picture was t...
Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction
Phys.org - 23 Mar 2014 12:41
The only camera to return from NASA's moon missions in 1969-1972 was sold at an auction in Vienna Saturday for 550,000 euros ($760,000), far outdoing its estimated price.
Curiosity Pulls into Kimberly and Spies Curvy Terrain For Drilling Action
Universe Today - 23 Mar 2014 04:36
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA's Curiosity rover has just pulled into gorgeous terrain chock full of curvy rock outcrops at Kimberly that's suitable for contact science and drilling action, according to the mission te...
Ariane 5's second launch of 2014
PTTU - 23 Mar 2014 00:05
ESA Top News: An Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecom satellites, Astra-5B and Amazonas-4A, into their planned transfer orbits.