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Nuclear strategy raises new questions about the security of critical communications networks
Space News - 4 Feb 2018 01:22
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that modernizing nuclear command, control and communications system will cost $58 billion over 10 years. SpaceNews.com
SpaceX's hot new monster rocket ready for first test flight
Phys.org - 4 Feb 2018 21:32
SpaceX's hot new monster rocket makes its launch debut this week, blasting off from the same pad that hoisted men to the moon a half-century ago.
Russia, Japan and China Launch Satellites in Back-to-Back Missions
SPACE.com - 4 Feb 2018 14:17Astronomers use a Galaxy Cluster as an Extremely Powerful "Natural Telescope" to Peer Even Farther into the Universe
Universe Today - 4 Feb 2018 23:17
An international team of astronomers recently discovered a fainter, older galaxy using the most extreme case of the gravitational microlensing technique to date The post Astronomers use a Galaxy Cluster as an Extremely P...
Exoplanetary Science, Build 2.0
Scientific American - 4 Feb 2018 21:00
The time is ripe for getting really serious about other worlds, and other life --
Today's "Planet Earth Report" --U.S. Report on Status-6: "A Mysterious Russian Doomsday Weapon"
The Daily Galaxy - 4 Feb 2018 17:55
Status-6 looks like a giant torpedo about a third the length of a big Russian submarine. According to a slide in a report on the state of America's nuclear weaponry released on Friday., it is nuclear-powered, meaning it ...
Today's "Planet Earth Report" --U.S. Report on Status-6: "Mysterious Russian Doomsday Weapon"
The Daily Galaxy - 4 Feb 2018 17:55
Status-6 looks like a giant torpedo about a third the length of a big Russian submarine. According to a slide in a report on the state of America's nuclear weaponry released on Friday, it is nuclear-powered, meaning it c...
News Update: 60,000 Hidden Mayan Ruins Discovered in Guatemala --"Technology Used is Equivalent to the Hubble Space Telescope" (WATCH Video)
The Daily Galaxy - 4 Feb 2018 17:12
"Lidar is revolutionising archaeology the way the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionised astronomy," Francisco Estrada-Belli, a Tulane University archaeologist, told National Geographic. "We'll need 100 years to go throug...
Super Bowl 2018: Even Astronauts Are Watching the Big Game
SPACE.com - 4 Feb 2018 15:23"How Frequently Does Life Exist Elsewhere?" --Cambridge Exoplanet Research Center
The Daily Galaxy - 4 Feb 2018 02:07
In the effort to answer the question 'Is there life elsewhere?' the focus on Earth twins is perceived as a safe path, since we can expect that similar conditions will lead to similar results (at least part of the time).....
Planets Discovered In Extragalactic Galaxies Using Microlensing
SpaceRef - 4 Feb 2018 00:14
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy....