Space News
A Gathering Storm
Bad Astronomy - 9 Jul 2016 15:00
I was sitting in my office at home writing a post for the blog on Friday, July 8, 2016, when I glanced out the window. Although the Sun was shining on my yard, the sky itself was a dark, ominous gray filling the view. Af...
Soyuz capsule docks with International Space Station
Phys.org - 9 Jul 2016 10:32
A Soyuz space capsule carrying astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States has docked with the International Space Station after a two-day voyage.
Russian, American, Japanese astronauts board space station
Phys.org - 9 Jul 2016 18:50
Three astronauts from the United States, Russia and Japan boarded the International Space Station on Saturday after a two-day journey aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule.
Backgrounder: ESA's e.Deorbit debris removal mission
SpaceRef - 9 Jul 2016 16:40
ESA's Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target an ESA-owned derelict satellite in low orbit, capture it, then safely burn it up in a controlled atmospheric r...
Expedition Crew Arrives at the International Space Station After Two Day Journey
SpaceRef - 9 Jul 2016 16:33
After launching on July 7 in their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 48-49 Soyuz Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi o...
This week at NASA: Juno arrives at Jupiter and more
SpaceRef - 9 Jul 2016 16:27
After an almost five-year journey to Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully settled into orbit around our solar system's largest planet on July 4 - giving Juno team members yet another reason to celebrate on Americ...
NASA's 'Dark Matter' Probe: "Our Milky Way Galaxy is Embedded Within a Vast Sphere of Black Holes" (Weekend Feature)
The Daily Galaxy - 9 Jul 2016 16:23
"All galaxies, including our own, are embedded within a vast sphere of black holes each about 30 times the sun's mass," says Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dark matter is a...
Pulsing Heart of the Crab Nebula --"Ghostly Blue Glow of a Neutron Star"
The Daily Galaxy - 9 Jul 2016 14:02
Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close-up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star. The inner region sends out cloc...
Two Month UAS Flight Test Series Concludes
PTTU - 9 Jul 2016 03:33
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center: