Space News
Jupiter's Hellish Moon, Io: Volcano Epi-Center of Our Solar System --"Could Harbor Extreme Life" (Weekend Feature)
The Daily Galaxy - 26 Jun 2016 15:25
"Everyone right away tends to categorically exclude the possibility of life on Io," said astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch at Washington State University. "Conditions on Io might have made it a friendlier habitat in the...
This Week at NASA: Kepler Discovers Young Planet and More
SpaceRef - 26 Jun 2016 14:31
NASA announced June 20, astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected....
Seeds of black holes could be revealed by gravitational waves detected in space
EurekAlert! - 26 Jun 2016 06:00
(Durham University) Gravitational waves captured by space-based detectors could help identify the origins of supermassive black holes, according to new computer simulations of the universe.
A Sunday Morning Brain Teaser For You
Bad Astronomy - 26 Jun 2016 15:00
Hey, I know just you want on a Sunday morning! A physics problem! If it helps, think of it as a brain teaser. Like many such, it's deceptively simple, but when you start to think about it a lot of concepts collide and it...
China on schedule for launch this year of second space station
Phys.org - 26 Jun 2016 11:24
China on Sunday recovered an experimental probe launched aboard a new generation rocket, marking another milestone in its increasingly ambitious space program that envisions a mission to Mars by the end of the decade.