Space News
Astronauts Invade Seattle: Spacesuited Statues 'On the Town' for Museum
SPACE.com - 13 Jun 2015 16:37
More than two dozen astronauts are landing under Seattle's Space Needle. The Museum of Flight launched "Astronauts on the Town," a public art program for its 50th anniversary.
After Higgs, Ramped-Up Collider Hunts for Next Puzzle
SPACE.com - 13 Jun 2015 23:51
With the power of an early universe in its control, what will the LHC find next?
The Space Destination Debate Gets Us Nowhere ... Literally (Op-Ed)
SPACE.com - 13 Jun 2015 22:54
If crewed spaceflight is to survive, Americans need to worry less about where to go and instead just get off the ground.
The Cocoon Nebula
PTTU - 13 Jun 2015 20:53
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):
Weekend 'Galaxy' Insight: "Our Strange Universe"
The Daily Galaxy - 13 Jun 2015 17:07
"Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think" Werner Heisenberg --German theoretical physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics." T...
"Radio Monsters" --Time Needed to Power Extragalactic Jets More Than Age of Universe
The Daily Galaxy - 13 Jun 2015 16:28
he longest known highly collimated structures in the universe are the narrow jets that emanate from the vicinity of powerful black holes in certain types of galactic nuclei. These narrow beams, often in pairs propagating...
Tunneling Cryobot Robot May Explore Icy Moons
SPACE.com - 13 Jun 2015 16:22
A robot designed to tunnel through thick ice caps and penetrate subterranean seas could one day explore the underground oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa -- an environment potentially habitable to life.
Have We Found Rosetta's Lost Philae Lander?
Universe Today - 13 Jun 2015 16:14
It’s only a bright dot in a landscape of crenulated rocks, but the Rosetta team thinks it might be Philae, the little comet lander lost since November. (...)Read the rest of Have We Found Rosetta’s Lost Philae Lander...
Robots Face Off in $1.5 Million NASA Sample Return Challenge
SPACE.com - 13 Jun 2015 16:11
Robot-toting teams faced off in a NASA contest this week to see which automaton has the right stuff for working on Mars or other locations in the solar system.
Video: NASA Monthly ISS Research Update for May 2015
SpaceRef - 13 Jun 2015 15:00
See the highlights of recent research conducted on the International Space Station during May....
Crash Course Astronomy: Outtakes 2
Bad Astronomy - 13 Jun 2015 13:00
When you watch an episode of Crash Course Astronomy, I'm sure you think to yourself, "Wow, this is surely the most polished and amazing series that has ever graced YouTube, nay, all of media since time immemorial!" becau...