'New Frontiers of Space' Book Brings Universe Down to Earth
• space.comA new book celebrates the past and future of human exploration of the cosmos.
Contents Pages by Subject
Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists Catch An X-Ray Eclipse Of A Planet Where It Rains Glass
• http://www.forbes.com, Alex KnappEarlier this month, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope studied exoplanet HD 189733b and determined that it was a deep blue color, thanks to silicates in its atmosphere that can create storms akin to raining glass.
First Planet Discovered Orbiting a Brown Dwarf
• Technologyreview.comAstronomers have long supposed that planets can form around brown dwarfs just as they do around ordinary stars. Now they’ve found the first example
Spacesuit Tools Delivered To Space Station Via Progress 52
• redorbit.comSix hours after a Saturday afternoon launch (4:45 p.m. EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan a Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), carrying three tons of supplies for the orbiting lab and the E
Earthly benefits of space exploration
• guardian.co.ttVery recently, the BBC reported that, in conjunction with Imperial College of the University of London, a concept mission to land astronauts on the planet Mars, using known technology, had been developed.
Mysterious NASA video of Saturn
• naturalnews.comHere at NaturalNews, we normally report on Earthly events, but right now some rather grand events are taking place in our solar system that you may want to know about.
Will Video Games Bootstrap Space Exploration of Possible Earths?
• prweb.com‘Starship Congress’ Convenes With Scientists, Researchers This August in Tx; Eve Online, Ouya, Unity3d Among Sponsors of 1st Interstellar Science Summit
LHC Discovery Maims Supersymmetry, Again
• news.discovery.comThis is one discovery that will likely excite and disappoint physicists in equal measure. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientists have confirmed the detection of an ultra-rare subatomic decay for the first time, a decay that is predicted by the Standa
Here's What Your $5 Billion Space Yacht Could Look Like
• popularmechanics.comJohn Spencer, president of the Space Tourism Society, has been working since the 1990s on Destiny, his vision for living the high life very high above the surface of the Earth.
12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration
• popsci.comNASA has awarded $100,000 to each of these sci-fi projects, which cover everything from suspended animation to Mars kites to 3-D printed food.
Boeing Reveals Interior of New Commercial Space Capsule
• space.comBoeing has thrown open the hatch to its new commercial spacecraft, offering a first look inside the capsule it is building in a bid to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
Heat Shield for NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Set for 2014 Test Flight
• space.comWork on the heat shield for NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle — America's next-generation spacecraft that could transport astronauts on missions to Mars — is on track toward an ambitious test launch in 2014. -
Earth, as seen from 900 million miles away (with new photos)
• Los Angeles TimesNeed a little perspective in your life? Take a look at these images of Earth as seen from 900 million miles away. In these new images released by NASA, our planet is dwarfed by Saturn's breathtaking rings, and shows up as just a pale blue dot
Carl Sagan science show returns with epic new trailer
• dvice.comPopularizing real science isn't easy, which is why Carl Sagan continues to be lauded for his work on the show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which, along with publications like Omni, helped to make science cool for the mainstream back in the 1980s.
First-ever trip to Moon’s South Pole planned for 2016
• sciencerecorder.comThe mission was announced at the NASA Lunar Science Institute conference.
Evidence of Martian ocean grows
• sciencerecorder.comThe Aeolis Riviera is the strongest evidence thus far of a large amount of water on Mars.
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Offers Enticing Science Opportunities
• space.comWith all the attention being given to Virgin Galactic's impressive list of future celebritynauts (Ashton! Branson! Beiber!), its spaceship's impressive capabilities for microgravity research have been largely overlooked
Mars Atmosphere Loss Mystery: Probe Will Investigate
• space.comNASA's MAVEN mission's Neutral Gas Ion Mass Spectrometer will look at how matter interacts with the solar wind in the Martian atmosphere. This data could reveal why the formally wet Red Planet has become the barren world we see today.
"Not Because It's Easy" Rekindles the Can Do Challenge of Space Exploration
• http://www.consumerelectronicsnet.comNovel Released on the Eve of the 44th Anniversary of Apollo's Moon Landing
Mars Rover Curiosity Rolls Past Mileage Milestone
• http://www.space.com, by Mike WallNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has notched a mileage milestone, reaching 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) of total driving distance as it heads toward a huge and mysterious Red Planet mountain. - See more at: http://www.space.com/22006-mars-rover-curiosity-drivi
Sci-Fi Film 'Europa Report' Uses Science to Show Space Travel Perils
• http://www.space.com,by Miriam KramerThe new science fiction movie "Europa Report" is billed by some admirers as one of the most accurate depictions of human spaceflight ever put on film, and that realism is no accident.
ESA funding a space penetrator, a science missile to bombard planets and moons
• extremetech.comWe can land men on the Moon, land rovers on Mars, and send probes off to the farthest reaches of the Solar System. Unfortunately, everything is very expensive, and we generally can’t land multiple robots on distant celestial bodies, much less a singl
Astronaut's helmet leak causes scrapping of spacewalk
• http://www.usatoday.com,The truncated spacewalk was the second in 8 days.
‘Space Selfies’: where no cellphone photo has gone before
• http://seattletimes.com, By Colin CampbellBillionaire-backed asteroid-mining enterprise Planetary Resources raises $1.5 million through a Kickstarter crowfunding campaign for its satellite telescope.
Voyager 1 Entered Weird Region In Space Last Summer
• arcleinThere's been plenty of talk about the Voyager 1's travels lately. Astronomers have been picking up these measurements over the past year. PopularScience.com posted about an increase in cosmic rays last June and this past March.
British 'Space Plane' Gets £60m Go-Ahead from Chancellor George Osborne
• http://www.ibtimes.co.uk, By Timur MoonA revolutionary aircraft could fly passengers to Australia in four-and-a-half hours, or into the stratosphere in 15 minutes, after a £250m plan by a British inventor received the backing of the chancellor, George Osborne.
Chinese probe reaches record height in space travel
• http://news.xinhuanet.com,China's space probe Chang'e-2 has flew to an outer space about 50 million km from the Earth, marking a new height in the nation's deep space exploration, Chinese scientists said on Sunday.
Hubble Spots New Moon Orbiting Neptune
• by Andrew FazekasThe Hubble Space Telescope‘s keen eye has revealed a previously undetected moon orbiting Neptune. The July 1, 2013 discovery , 24 years after Voyager 2 swung by the icy-blue giant, expands the known retinue of circling moons to 14.
How Do You Drink Coffee In Space? With A Zero-Gravity Coffee Cup, Of Course
• redorbit.comScientists are conducting experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to better understand how coffee behaves in microgravity.
Space: The Final Frontier of Environmental Disasters?
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannSome members of Congress want to put a national park on the moon.
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