Space News
Uber Brings In NASA Engineer To Build Flying Cars
Universe Today - 9 Feb 2017 01:53
Uber recently announced that they have hired NASA engineer Mark Moore to spearhead the company's VTOL transit program, known as Uber Elevate. The post Uber Brings In NASA Engineer To Build Flying Cars appeared first on U...
Tornado Recovery Efforts, Assessments Ongoing at NASA's Michoud
NASA Breaking news - 9 Feb 2017 01:47World's First Atomic Blast Tests Theories of Moon's Formation
Scientific American - 9 Feb 2017 00:45
Radioactive glass from the Trinity nuclear test site resembles ancient moon rocks --
First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation
Phys.org - 8 Feb 2017 23:00
Decades-old radioactive glass found blanketing the ground after the first nuclear test bomb explosion is being used by scientists to examine theories about the Moon's formation some 4.5 billion years ago.
NASA Team Looks to Ancient Earth First to Study Hazy Exoplanets
PTTU - 8 Feb 2017 22:53
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:
31 Years After Disaster, Challenger Soccer Ball Finally Gets To Orbit
Universe Today - 8 Feb 2017 22:28
A soccer ball on the ISS pays tribute to the seven astronauts who died in the Challenger disaster. The post 31 Years After Disaster, Challenger Soccer Ball Finally Gets To Orbit appeared first on Universe Today.
Progress seen from above
PTTU - 8 Feb 2017 22:16
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope:
A Middleweight Black Hole is Hiding at the Center of a Giant Star Cluster
PTTU - 8 Feb 2017 22:08
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:
A middleweight black hole is hiding at the center of a giant star cluster
Phys.org - 8 Feb 2017 22:00
All known black holes fall into two categories: small, stellar-mass black holes weighing a few Suns, and supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of Suns. Astronomers expect that intermediate-mass black hol...
Full moon, comet starring in night sky show this weekend
Phys.org - 8 Feb 2017 21:56
A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend.
European space agency to help NASA take humans beyond moon
Phys.org - 8 Feb 2017 21:36
The European Space Agency says it will contribute key components for a future NASA mission to take humans around the moon within the next few years.
Orbital ATK sues DARPA to stop SSL from winning satellite-servicing contract
Space News - 8 Feb 2017 21:13
Orbital ATK sued the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Feb. 7 to prevent a rival firm from getting a contract to collaborate on a government-funded mission to repair a satellite in orbit. SpaceNews....
Carnival of Space #495
Universe Today - 8 Feb 2017 21:02
The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.
Satellite Sees Louisiana Tornado Storm System from Space
SPACE.com - 8 Feb 2017 21:00
Severe thunderstorms and several tornadoes struck the state of Louisiana on Tuesday (Feb. 7). A weather satellite operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured an overhead view ...
NASA Redefines Life Zones for Alien Planets --"Nixes Earth-Sized Planet of Our Closest Neighbor Red Dwarf Star Proxima Centauri"
The Daily Galaxy - 8 Feb 2017 20:51
"If we want to find an exoplanet that can develop and sustain life, we must figure out which stars make the best parents," said Vladimir Airapetian, lead author of the paper and a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space ...
Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite 'Shotgun' Blast
SPACE.com - 8 Feb 2017 20:21
A cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars have been found, highlighting a deadly hazard for future Mars colonists.
How Big Can Stars Get? Awesome Visualization Shows Scale
SPACE.com - 8 Feb 2017 19:48
Some stars can be the size of a planet, others can be more than 1400 times bigger than the Sun. Different types of stars are shown to scale in this European Southern Observatory visualization.
LIGO's Underdog Cousin Ready to Enhance Gravitational-Wave Hunt
Scientific American - 8 Feb 2017 19:45
It missed the historic discovery, but the Virgo lab in Italy is now primed to extend LIGO’s reach and precision --
Tornado Destroys First NASA Space Shuttle External Tank to Stand on Launch Pad
SPACE.com - 8 Feb 2017 19:43
The first space shuttle external tank to stand on a launch pad was destroyed by a tornado that hit the New Orleans facility where it was built 40 years ago.
MIT Scientists: Cosmos Aligns to Show "Einstein Out of Whack" With Quantum Reality (VIDEO)
The Daily Galaxy - 8 Feb 2017 19:42
Quantum entanglement may appear to be closer to science fiction than anything in our physical reality. But according to the laws of quantum mechanics -- a branch of physics that describes the world at the scale of atoms ...
India's space agency expects foreign customers to cover half the cost of its next Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle mission
Space News - 8 Feb 2017 19:11
ISRO did not disclose exactly how much revenue the launch will generate from those foreign customers. SpaceNews.com
NASA Begins Tornado Recovery at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans
SPACE.com - 8 Feb 2017 19:04
NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility has begun recovery efforts after a tornado hit the New Orleans location yesterday (Feb. 8).