Fifth in line, first in space
• Sajeda MominLONDON: Princess Beatrice, the Queen’s 18-year-old granddaughter is all set to become the first royal to go into space.
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Space Travel and Exploration
Virgin Galactic’s Spaceliner
• Space.comVirgin Galactic—the passenger-carrying spaceliner company—plans are rapidly taking shape - suborbital space flights in the near-term but also to eventually offer point-to-point rocket travel around the globe, as well as to space hotels, and the Moon
Moon Burps Reveal Volcanic Activity
• Space.comThe Moon has been seen huffing and puffing, remnants of a once very active satellite, scientists reported. It’s believed that the Moon hasn’t experienced any volcanic activity for 3 million years, but a look at old evidence suggests otherwise.
Freak One-Eyed Monster Storm Spotted on Saturn
• Space.comA freaky storm two-thirds the diameter of Earth and unlike anything ever seen has been spotted on Saturn. The storm's eye is clear of clouds, as with a hurricane on Earth. And the eye-wall clouds are also similar to those that surround the eye of
India's top scientists to send a manned mission to Space & Moon
• www.ndtv.comLast week, the ISRO chairman had told NDTV why ISRO wanted to send an Indian to space on its own rocket and an Indian to the moon six years after that.
Missing Helium Mystery Solved: Big Stars Ate It
• Space.comFor years, astrophysicists have tried to reconcile a cosmic discrepancy: the universe held much less helium 3 gas than was predicted by models of stellar evolution. Using new 3-dimensional models, scientists discovered where all the helium 3 went
Saturn moon gives clues about early life on Earth
• ReutersBillions of years ago, Earth may have been shrouded in a blanket of atmospheric haze like that seen on Saturn's moon Titan, providing organic material that nourished our planet's earliest life forms, researchers said.
Deep Impact Heads to New Comet
• Space.comThe surviving portion of the Deep Impact space probe that watched as its other half smashed into a comet on July 4 is being sent on a mission to study another comet.
NASA will risk astronauts to repair Hubble
• APThe Hubble Space Telescope, which opened Earth's eyes to an awe-inspiring universe of star births and colliding galaxies, got a reprieve from the junk pile.
Uranus has a dark spot
• Space.comImages of Uranus reveal for the first time a dark spot in the planet’s northern hemisphere. During the past decade, many bright spots have been seen on Uranus, in both red and near-infrared filters. But this is the first dark spot ever seen on the pl
Harnessing Asteroids and Comets to Travel the Solar System
• Space.comNASA is funding a study to see if it might be possible to use asteroids traveling between the orbits of Earth and Mars to shelter spacecraft from radiation. The brainchild of Daniella Della-Giustina, engineering physics undergrad from the U of Arizon
Wow! Striking Green Comet Suddenly Visible in Evening Sky
• Space.comWhat had been a modest comet seen only with binoculars or telescopes flared up this week to become visible to the naked eye. Comet Swan, as it is called, is in the western sky after sunset from the Northern Hemisphere. It remains faint, likely not ea
The Bush administration just fired the opening shot in a race to militarize space.
• Frida BerriganU.S. Space Command’s Vision for 2020 —which articulated a vision of “full spectrum dominance: and insisted that “space superiority is emerging as an essential element of battlefield success and future warfare”
Martian Life Could Have Evaded Detection by Viking Landers
• Space.comA chemical test used by the Mars Viking landers more than 30 years ago was not sensitive enough to detect signs of alien life even if they existed, a new study suggests.
In Formative Years, the Sun Had Sisters
• Space.comThe Sun had sisters when it was born, hundreds to thousands of them. At least one was a supernova, providing support that there could be lots of planets around other stars since our solar system emerged in such an explosive environment.
XPrize: Rocket contests start Friday
• Space.com (live coverage)At the 2nd International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight, held here as prelude to the Wirefly X Prize Cup competitions slated for October 20-21 at the Las Cruces International Airport.
Rare meteorite found in Kansas field
• APScientists located a rare meteorite in a Kansas wheat field thanks to new ground-penetrating radar technology that someday might be used on Mars.
NASA studies Mars water in hope of mission
• ReutersA NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars is using the most powerful cameras ever pointed at the Red Planet to study its climate cycles and whether there is enough water to support a manned mission, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
Saturn’s Shadow Sheds Light on Rings
• Space.comNASA scientists think they might have a lead on where to find Saturn’s missing moons: near rings recently discovered by the Cassini spacecraft. In mid-September, the sun was poised behind Saturn, providing Cassini scientists with an unprecede
Titan’s Surface: Dusty Dunes?
• Space.comWhen the Cassini-Huygens probe landed on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, last year, it found no evidence of the ethane ocean long thought to cover the satellite’s surface. Instead, scientists observed dune structures
Jupiter's Small Spot Changes Color
• APJust a little more than a year ago, the small spot on Jupiter was a pale white; now it matches the reddish hue of its bigger sibling, the Great Red Spot, and boasts 400 mph winds, according to new data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomers See Early Stages of Star Explosions
• Space.comSatellite observations have confirmed how a certain type of star explosion occurs and revealed a previously unknown stage of radiation release during the stellar burst. Using NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers observed 24 supernovas shortly afte
Bursting the Spherical Bubble: Universe Might Be Pill-Shaped
• Space.comInstead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like a pill. The newly proposed shape could be caused by a magnetic field that pervades the entire cosmos or defects in the fabric of space and time, resear
Nearest Planet Beyond Solar System Might Be Photogenic
• Space.comThe closest planet outside our solar system orbits a young Sun-like star only 10.5 light years away—so close that telescopes might soon be able to snap pictures of it, new observations confirm.
"Trek" Auction Beams Up Big Bucks
• by Joal RyanThe most prized item, judging by its sales price, was a 78-inch-long model of the U.S.S. Enterprise captained by Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It sold for $576,000--the most ever for an auctioned-off piece of Trek memorabilia, C
Mars Orbiter Spies Mars Rover at Victoria Crater
• Space.comNASA’s newest Mars orbiter has spied the plucky rover Opportunity perched at the rim of the red planet’s massive Victoria Crater as both vehicles explore the fourth planet from the Sun.
Bush pushes war in space
• Space.comPresident Bush's sweeping new space policy responds to a post 9/11 world of terrorist actions, like the need for intelligence-gathering internal and external to the US. “Freedom of action in space is as important to the US as air and sea power.”
Black Holes Power the Brightest Cosmic Objects, Study Confirms
• Space.comAstronomers have looked under the hoods of quasars, the brightest objects in the universe, and found some of the best evidence yet for the black holes that are thought to power them.
Black Hole Belts Out Discordant Musical
• Space.comA gigantic sonic boom and a periodic deep cacophony of sound emanated from a supermassive black hole, according to observations by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole, one of the biggest in the universe, lies at the center of M87,
Wide Range of Rocket Tech for Civilian Spaceflight
• Space.comA new era of human spaceflight is upon us, and its movers and shapers say it will be cheaper, safer and aimed at the masses. Whether you just want to experience weightlessness, take a quick suborbital jaunt or spend a few days aboard the Internati
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