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23 Apr 2018
- 03:13 UTC The TeCake World’s first Trillionair will gather wealth in outer spa... Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos became the first man on the Earth to officially amass over $100 billion wealth. The staggering number may be mind-boggling for some but experts claim that ...
- 03:03 UTC Tychogirl Sway Sometimes the tempois adagio,and everything swayslike a dirge.The kelp heavestowards shoreon slow wavesthen drains back out.The worldclicks the beatsof a funeral marchfor mewhen I forgetthe time.#NaPoWriMo, Day 22.
- 02:00 UTC All About Space The first woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova Tereshkova holds many honours including the Hero of the Soviet Union (1963) and Order of Honour (2003).Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born in the village of Maslennikovo in the Tutayevsky District ...
- 00:53 UTC Space News Space industry expresses support for Bridenstine’s confir... WASHINGTON — NASA’s next administrator, Jim Bridenstine, is set to be sworn into office April 23 as the space industry breathes a sigh of relief that his extended confirmation process ...
22 Apr 2018
- 23:53 UTC 10 Minute Astronomy My presentation on choosing and using binoculars is now f... I’ve had the opportunity to give this talk a few places now, including the Riverside Telescope Maker’s Conference and Norwescon 41, and I regularly get requests to post the slide ...
- 23:31 UTC Space News Boeing, Lockheed, ULA corner the government-funded space ... WASHINGTON — Attracting new players to compete for national security and civil space contracts has been a longtime goal of the Congress, the Pentagon and NASA. But as the numbers ...
- 20:30 UTC The Guardian Starwatch: the lion in spring
- 19:12 UTC Astro Watch Russian Rokot Launcher to Orbit Sentinel-3B Earth-Observi... Russian Rokot launch vehicle is poised to blast off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Wednesday, April 25, tasked with the delivery of European Sentinel-3B Earth-observing satellite. The rocket will blast ...
- 18:28 UTC JP Aerospace Blog She Flies! Yesterday we conducted the second float and system integration test of the Ascender 9 airship.
- 17:27 UTC Astropoetry Nat Geo My shelves groan under the weightOf books about Mars.They bend in the middle, like geological layersOf stone warped by time, moaning“No more, please, no more!”Crammed onto them, almost vacuum-packedAre paperbacks ...
- 17:22 UTC Astro Bob Venus Meets The Pleiades — Come See! I hope you’re having a great start to Earth Day. We’re all sunshine and 56° here in Duluth, Minn. The view through the window makes me want to get up ...
- 17:22 UTC Astropoetry My First View The first time I saw you I wasFifteen, I think, just startingTo discover the sky. I’dBeen “into space” since I was five– From the day I was made to sit ...
- 17:19 UTC Astro Watch Clear as Mud: Desiccation Cracks Help Reveal the Shape of... As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet’s watery past comes into clearer focus. In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which ...
- 17:08 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... What’s Happening in Space Policy April 22-28, 2018 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of April 22-28, 2018 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session ...
- 16:57 UTC Astro Watch Atoms May Hum a Tune from Grand Cosmic Symphony Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics and ...
- 16:12 UTC Astro Watch Hyperspectral Instrument DESIS En Route to International ... The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the United States corporation Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) are announcing the completion of the development and manufacturing process ...
- 16:00 UTC Irene W. Pennington... The Lyrids Meteor Shower: April 22, 23 The Lyrids is an average shower, usually producing about 20 meteors per hour at its peak. It is produced by dust particles left behind by comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, which ...
- 16:00 UTC Planet Pulse On Earth Day, More Eyes on Our Planet In 1969, a well blew out off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Miles of beaches, filled with animal and human life covered in oily sludge, captivated public interest and ...
- 16:00 UTC Astrobiology Magazi... Clues to recovery from mass extinction About 252 million years ago, more than 90 percent of all animal life on Earth went extinct.
- 16:00 UTC All About Space Ghost Ship to Alpha Centauri While Ghost Ship is currently only a concept, its new ignition system could be the way forwardDestination: Alpha Centauri – a triple system of stars located some 4.37 light years ...
- 15:10 UTC AmericaSpace Sampling the Moon: Remembering the Lost Moonwalks of Apol...
- 15:00 UTC What's Up? The Spac... Earth Day 2018 Hey Space Placers!This is our planet seen from the Moon. What a photograph for Earth Day 2018. Will human eyes experience this in person from the Moon someday? Only time ...
- 14:51 UTC SpaceUp Registration to SpaceUp Nigeria is now open Coming up April 28th, 2018 at University of Lagos, SpaceUp Nigeria is a one-day space unconference about the space sector. At SpaceUp Nigeria you will meet fellow space enthusiasts and ...
- 14:38 UTC SpaceUp SpaceUp in Skoltech: A day to remember! This year’s SpaceUp Skoltech, which took place on 21th of April, was a great success! The event was attended by more than 100 participants of all age.The main topic of ...
- 14:21 UTC Astronaut.com What is the Future of Space-Based Research? The curiosity in humans gives us the desire to learn, to explore, and to understand. These qualities have led us to many triumphant discoveries, not only in learning about the ...
- 13:56 UTC The TeCake Women scientists at NASA list out best and worst space-th... People love watching movies. In fact, there is a great number of people who love watching sci-fi or science fiction movies based on the theme of space and science like ...
- 13:18 UTC Parabolic Arc GomSpace Successfully Commissions GOMX-4 Nanosats ESA’s biggest small satellite yet: the GomX-4B six-unit CubeSat will demonstrate miniaturised technologies, preparing the way for future operational nanosatellite constellations. (Credit: GomSpace)STOCKHOLM (GomSpace PR) — As part of a ...
- 13:07 UTC SPACE.com Star 'DNA' Survey Could Reunite the Sun with Its Long-Los... Is the sun due for a cosmic family reunion? A new survey of 1 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy could help astronomers link our sun to its long-lost ...
- 13:00 UTC SPACE.com Celebrate Earth Day with NASA's Terra Tools and Posters
- 13:00 UTC SPACE.com DARPA Announces Responsive Launch Prize Competition
- 12:55 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... VividX2 Makes History The VividX2 makes history as the world’s first commercial satellite able to provide full-colour video of life on Earth.It is capable of taking ultra-high definition images of any location on ...
- 12:45 UTC Tom's Astronomy Blo... Four Years of NEOWISE Impressive four years of NEOWISE operation:Asteroids detected or observed 29,000Near Earth Objects: 788About the video (NASA): The orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars are shown in blue. Earth’s orbit is ...
- 12:33 UTC Astro Watch NASA Engineers Dream Big with Small Spacecraft Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo -- all large machines that could measure up to ...
- 12:31 UTC Pembrokeshire Astro... Patrick Moore - Can You Speak Venusian? Love this episode..... Sir Patrick Moore.... much missed.
- 11:22 UTC Space. It's... It's... Space Observatories Update 04/2018 A new observatory in space, TESS! Time for an update to the Space Observatories page. Also some delays and the Chinese "Two Meter Space Telescope" got the proper name Xuntian, ...
- 10:46 UTC Astro Watch Max Polyakov’s (Maxim Polyakov) Firefly Aerospace Making ... Max Polyakov’s Firefly Aerospace is back on track, testing its new engine, Firefly Lightning, at their Brigg’s facility outside Menlo Park, Texas. CEO, Dr. Tom Markusic, and Max Polyakov plan ...
- 10:35 UTC EarthSky Blog How TESS will hunt for alien worlds An artist’s impression of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and some of its planetary quarry. Image via NASA.Via The Kavli FoundationA new era in the search for exoplanets — ...
- 10:35 UTC SatTrackCam Leiden ... OTV 5 or Zuma? A brief explanation why this object is OTV... click image to enlargeThe image above shows the US Air Force's "secret" X-37B space plane OTV 5 ascending in the western sky (the two bright stars above the roof are ...
- 10:14 UTC 10 Minute Astronomy In Search of Stardust currently less than $3 new I don’t know how or why this is happening, but Jon Larsen’s excellent book In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters, which originally retailed for $24.99, is ...
- 10:09 UTC EarthSky Blog Our home world from afar NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth as seen from the vicinity of the moon, in 1966. Forty-two years later, NASA released this much higher-resolution version reprocessed ...
- 10:00 UTC SpaceFlight Insider VIDEO: NEOWISE asteroid survey data released This movie shows the progression of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) investigation for the mission’s first four years following its restart in December 2013. Green dots represent near-Earth ...
- 09:53 UTC Space Fellowship Meteor Over Crater Lake
- 09:27 UTC Astro Watch Hubble 28th Anniversary Image Captures Roiling Heart of V... This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary tapestry of ...
- 09:17 UTC Parabolic Arc Aerospace Policy Paper Explores the Next Steps in Space D... COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aerospace Corporation PR) – The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released a new policy paper that explores future opportunities in cislunar space—essentially, the ...
- 06:44 UTC David Reneke's Worl... Celebrating 28 Years Of The Hubble Space Telescope
- 06:02 UTC David Reneke's Worl... Big Bang, Big Claim: Why This Bold Idea Is Right
- 06:00 UTC All About Space Why doesn’t our Solar System have a hot Jupiter? Our Solar System doesn’t have an exotic hot Jupiter. Image Credit: NASAAsked by Jonathan Rosewall Hot Jupiters are heated gas giant planets that are very close to their stars, just ...
- 05:29 UTC David Reneke's Worl... New discovery finds evidence of a destroyed planet in our...
- 05:19 UTC Victor Herrero Radi... Jupiter events 16 at Juno Waves and other observatories -----With many thanks from Victor Herrero-Arrieta to the Teams at Juno Waves, NASA Planetary Data System, STEREO A, WIND, and the Tax Payers of the United States of America.With many ...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Mountains in the Sky Air masses passing over the Appalachian Mountains created waves in the atmosphereâ€”and these distinctive clouds.

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