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26 Jan 2015
- 22:17 UTC Astro Watch NASA Langley Debuts an 'Impressive Machine' It wasn't the first ribbon cutting ceremony at NASA's Langley Research Center, nor is it likely to be the last. But it may very well be the only ribbon cutting ...
- 22:01 UTC AMSAT-UK LightSail-1 launch announced The first of The Planetary Society’s two LightSail spacecraft will ride to space aboard an Atlas V rocket in May 2015. The mission is a shakedown cruise designed to test ...
- 21:51 UTC EarthSky Blog Mars panorama marks rover’s 11th anniversary A panorama from one of the highest elevations that NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached in its 11 years on Mars includes the U.S. flag at the summit. See ...
- 21:35 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... Recap of Today’s Commercial Crew Briefing Read our recap of today’s news media briefing with NASA’s administrator, Commercial Crew Program manager and astronaut along with Boeing and SpaceX officials. Not to spoil it, but exciting times ...
- 21:20 UTC Astro Watch Rosetta Watches Comet Shed its Dusty Coat ESA’s Rosetta mission is providing unique insight into the life cycle of a comet’s dusty surface, watching 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as it sheds the dusty coat it has accumulated over the past ...
- 21:19 UTC NPR An Asteroid Is Passing Very Close To Earth Today. Here's ... At its closest point, asteroid 2004 BL86 came within about 750,000 miles from Earth — or almost three times farther away than the moon.» E-Mail This
- 21:10 UTC SPACE.com Mountain-Size Asteroid Makes Close Flyby of Earth A mountain-size asteroid buzzed Earth Monday morning (Jan. 26) in a close encounter that's already revealing new information about the space rock, including an improved measurement of its size and ...
- 21:10 UTC e! Science News Gigantic ring system around J1407b much larger, heavier t... Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, USA, have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is ...
- 21:00 UTC NPR Another Day, Another 'Close Call' Between Earth And An As... A rare large asteroid zipped very close to Earth Monday morning. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Paul Chodas, head of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near-Earth Object program, about the "close ...
- 20:42 UTC NASA Watch First Commercial Crew Test Flights in 2017 NASA News Conference: Update on the Commercial Crew Program, SpaceRef Business "NASA, Boeing and SpaceX will held a news briefing on NASA Television at the agency's Johnson Space Center in ...
- 20:36 UTC The Solstice Blog Today’s the Day for BL86 Flying Past Earth! And you can S... Today was the flyby of the big Asteroid 2004 BL86. It can be seen tonight in the sky but you will need a darn good pair of binoculars or a ...
- 20:26 UTC Nature World News Jupiter's Largest Moons Cast Rare Triple Shadow Jupiter's three largest moons - lo, Europa and Callisto - cast a rare triple shadow Friday night on their giant host planet, a rare celestial event that won't occur again ...
- 20:26 UTC AmericaSpace At T-2 Years, NASA, SpaceX and Boeing Discuss Return of U... SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell responds to a question, as Boeing’s John Elbon and NASA’s Kathy Lueders look on. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace Four months after NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX as ...
- 20:26 UTC Parabolic Arc Planetary Society Announces May Flight Test for LightSail... PASADENA, CA (Planetary Society PR) – The Planetary Society today announced the first of its LightSail spacecraft will embark on a May 2015 test flight. Funded entirely by private citizens, ...
- 20:26 UTC SPACE.com Earth's Interplanetary Dust Traced to Comets by Rosetta P... The interplanetary dust particles that fall to Earth from outer space apparently come from comets, according to the latest findings from Europe's Rosetta spacecraft. This discovery could shed light on ...
- 20:12 UTC Astrosphere New Med... Astronomy Word of the Week
- 20:06 UTC Astro Watch Swarm of Microprobes to Head for Jupiter A swarm of tiny probes each with a different sensor could be fired into the clouds of Jupiter and grab data as they fall before burning up in the gas ...
- 20:00 UTC Scientific American Could Black Hole Energy Save Humanity’s Future? Let's say some future civilization wanted to get energy out of a black hole. The first step would be to build a space elevator that defies the laws of physics ...
- 19:53 UTC Galileo's Pendulum Why wormholes (probably) don’t exist A lot of science fiction plot devices are devoted to getting around the speed of light. In the real Universe, nothing with mass can travel faster than light, which means ...
- 19:53 UTC Astro Bob Shoot rockets at the aurora? Yes! Four launched overnight It was a good night at Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska last night. Conditions were go for the launch of four rockets straight into the northern lights near the ...
- 19:50 UTC Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 365: Gaia The European Gaia spacecraft launched about a year ago with the ambitious goal of mapping one billion years in the Milky Way. That’s 1% of all the stars in our ...
- 19:46 UTC STARtorialist Even the #snow in #NYC is getting #startorial! #stars... Even the #snow in #NYC is getting #startorial! #stars #snowflakes http://ift.tt/1zjlsEw
- 19:40 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com SpaceX preparing for the crewed Dragon abort tests SpaceX has revealed more details into its upcoming drive to bring the crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft on line, in its bid to return a domestic crew transportation system ...
- 19:38 UTC Astro Watch Planetary Society Announces Test Flight of its LightSail ... The Planetary Society today announced the first of its LightSail spacecraft will embark on a May 2015 test flight. Funded entirely by private citizens, the solar sail satellite will hitch ...
- 19:35 UTC Parabolic Arc This Week on The Space Show This week on The Space Show with David Livingston: 1. Monday, Jan. 26, 2015: 2:00-3:30PM PST (5:00-& 6:30 PM EST, 4:00-5:30 PM CST): We welcome JPL’s DR. MARC RAYMAN, the ...
- 19:32 UTC Parabolic Arc Reaction Engines Reaches SABRE Engine Milestone ABINGTON, England (Reaction Engines PR) – This year, the Reaction Engines team are expanding in staff and activities to complete the SABRE demonstrator programme, with delivery on track for 2019. ...
- 19:19 UTC SPACE.com Space.com Invites Submissions for Best of Toy Fair 2015 A... Space.com, the premier destination for innovation, technology, entertainment, astronomy and space news, is now accepting submissions for the Space.com Space Age Awards at Toy Fair 2015 in February.
- 19:06 UTC Universe Today Carnival Of Space #390 This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Joe Latrell at his Photos To Space blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #390 (...)Read the rest of Carnival Of ...
- 19:04 UTC NASA Blueshift Rossi X-ray Timing (and cake) Explorer We just passed the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer’s 20th birthday last month – a little tricky since the satellite is no longer in service. But why not take a quick ...
- 19:02 UTC SPACE.com Will Enormous Galactic Bubbles Expose Dark Matter? (Kavli... Three astrophysicists who discovered the "Fermi bubbles" place the discovery in context, and share what the mysterious bubbles may reveal about the history of our Milky Way galaxy.
- 19:01 UTC STARtorialist Now you can wash all that dirty star stuff off with some ... Now you can wash all that dirty star stuff off with some nice smelling, all-natural star stuff! Thanks to Erin Ryan for alerting us to these great soaps from Filthy ...
- 19:00 UTC Sydney Observatory Daily cosmobite: Sydney Observatory’s East Dome opens Sydney Observatory’s new East Dome officially opens today, 27 January, 2015. It is one of three domes on the site. The south dome was built in 1858 (enlarged in 1874) ...
- 18:57 UTC In the Dark Lines on the Death of Demis Roussos After all the sound and fury accompanying yesterday elections in Greece there’s one item of much sadder news. The legendary Demis Roussos has passed away. I can’t think of him ...
- 18:46 UTC Cosmic Diary On Mars, the wind wins A piece of Mars: This scene (600×450 m or 1969×1476 ft) is covered in small craters, formed by the splash of a larger crater nearby. They cover everything, even the ...
- 18:45 UTC Science 2.0 Planet With Rings Found Outside Solar System - And They A... Astronomers have discovered a ring system eclipsing the very young Sun-like star J1407. And it is huge, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn. The ring system, ...
- 18:31 UTC Space Fellowship Rosetta watches comet shed its dusty coat ESA’s Rosetta mission is providing unique insight into the life cycle of a comet’s dusty surface, watching 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as it sheds the dusty coat it has accumulated over the past ...
- 18:25 UTC Space Fellowship Station Crew Studying Tiny Organisms to Understand Larger... After a week of medical science activities, the space station residents began the new week focusing on worms, fruit flies and plants. The tiny organisms provide scientists a model for ...
- 18:21 UTC Discovery News - Sp... Rosetta Captures Comet's Dusty Old 'Snowflakes' Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is shedding its old dusty coat and Europe's Rosetta mission is catching the individual flakes to understand some fascinating cometary dynamics.
- 18:00 UTC STARtorialist Bustle just called us an "internet rabbit hole" Bustle just called us an "internet rabbit hole": The blog also highlights the work of Rice and Ash’s fellow astronomers, which is amazingly cool. By doing this, they’re enlightening laypeople ...
- 18:00 UTC Women in Astronomy Negotiating a Single Tenure Track Offer Today’s guest blogger is Stella Offner. She is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.In the current stressful faculty job market, multiple job offers are becoming more rare and the typical ...
- 17:58 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Rosetta watches comet shed its dusty coat ESA’s Rosetta mission is providing unique insight into the life cycle of a comet’s dusty surface, watching 67P/C-G as it sheds the dusty coat it has accumulated over the past ...
- 17:53 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Earth’s Moon May Not Be Critical to Life Maybe Earth, with its giant moon, is actually the oddball amongst habitable planets.
- 17:50 UTC The Planetary Socie... At last! A slew of OSIRIS images shows fascinating landsc... The first results of the Rosetta mission are out in Science magazine. The publication of these papers means that the OSIRIS camera team has finally released a large quantity of ...
- 17:48 UTC NASA Commercial Cre... NASA, Boeing, SpaceX Outline Path to Flight By Steven Siceloff, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Spacecraft systems testing followed by increasingly complex flight tests and ultimately astronauts flying orbital flights will pave the way during the next ...
- 17:32 UTC NASA Space Station ... Crew Studying Tiny Organisms to Understand Larger Organis... After a week of medical science activities, the space station residents began the new week focusing on worms, fruit flies and plants. The tiny organisms provide scientists a model for ...
- 17:28 UTC SPACE.com Massive Blizzard 'Juno' Seen Developing From Space | Time... The NOAA GOES-13 satellite captured the massive winter storm bearing down on the east coast of the United States on Jan. 26th, 2015. GOES ‘sees’ infrared radiant energy and reflected ...
- 17:27 UTC NASA Watch Negative Progress Towards Putting Humans on Mars Bolden "people are always saying we're 20 years from Mars. I think we're about to go under that"— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) January 26, 2015 Report of the Space Task Group ...
- 17:24 UTC NASA Astrobiology Kepler Exoplanet Travel Posters Courtesy NASA/JPL-CaltechNew from the PlanetQuest group at JPL, these gorgeous posters depict images of travel to worlds orbiting stars other than our own Sun! Just as mid-century travel posters enticed ...
- 17:22 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Incoming Asteroid 2004 BL86 To Flyby Today-1/26/15 Hey Space Placers!A lot of us are dealing with winter weather today.1/2 kilometer (1/3 mile) wide Asteroid 2004 BL86 passed at closest approach to Earth today at 11 am EST. ...
- 17:18 UTC SPACE.com Google Lunar XPrize Milestone Awards Announced Five teams just hit their milestones — totaling more than $5 million — in the race for the Google Lunar XPrize.