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9 Jul 2020
- 20:20 UTC The Planetary Socie... A Comet Visitor and a Pretty Metal Moon
- 20:15 UTC Discover Vanguard 1: Earth’s Oldest Artificial Satellite That's St...
- 20:14 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Updates Planetary Protection Policies for Robotic an... NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera to record this eastward horizon view on the 2,407th Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s work on Mars (Oct. 31, ...
- 20:11 UTC International Dark ... Protect and Restore the Night
- 20:07 UTC Universe Today Scientists Have Developed a Way to Make Human Skin More P...
- 20:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Vanguard 1: Earth’s oldest artificial satellite that's st...
- 19:31 UTC NASA Watch NASA's Global Reach: Untapped And Under-appreciated Soft ... @JimBridenstine @NASA Hey nasa my name is Matías Paliz I'm 10 years old and I'm from ecuador and I'm using my fathers account ,I want to land on the the ...
- 19:14 UTC Alice's Astro Info Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) from West Seattle This comet is visible a couple hours before sunrise for the next few days (July 9, 10, 11) and shortly after sunset after July 12 or so. All dates and ...
- 18:42 UTC Space-For-All at Ho... Virginia student wins first Design/Build/Launch competiti...
- 18:36 UTC Parabolic Arc CSA Awards Additional Space Technology Development Contra... by Douglas MessierManaging Editor The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded an additional 10 contracts worth nearly CAD $4.49 million (US $3.3 million) to eight companies under its Space Technology ...
- 18:01 UTC Space News Apstar-6D launches on Long March 3B rocket WASHINGTON — The first satellite for a Chinese company planning a global system of geostationary satellites launched July 9 on a Long March 3B rocket. Apstar-6D, a high-throughput satellite with ...
- 17:34 UTC Astro Bob Comet NEOWISE Hits It Out Of The Park! Comet NEOWISE makes a lovely appearance above a summer landscape in Duluth, Minn. at dawn on July 8. Bob KingWith no baseball season yet underway we’ll have to depend on ...
- 17:03 UTC Parabolic Arc China Launches Communications Satellite A Long March 3B booster orbited the APSTAR 6D commercial communications satellite on Thursday. The launch was conducted from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. APT Mobile Satcom ...
- 17:00 UTC NASA Watch Two NASA Science/Exploration Events Today Keith's note: There are two space science/exploration events happening back to back (with some overlap) today: "Planetary Protection and Lunar Activities" starts at 2:00 pm EDT Jim Bridenstine will be ...
- 16:44 UTC Lights in the Dark NASA’s Next Rover Reminds Us That, As Always, We Persever... NASA recently released this inspirational video in preparation of the targeted July 30, 2020 launch of its newest Mars rover, Perseverance (along with the Ingenuity helicopter!) Give it a watch. ...
- 16:40 UTC Parabolic Arc New European Experiment Rack Installed on Space Station NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley (imaged above) maneuver the fridge-sized European Drawer Rack Mark 2 (EDR2) to its new position. (Credit: ESA/NASA) PARIS (ESA PR) — After a ...
- 16:40 UTC AmericaSpace NASA Completes Heat Shield Milestone for Artemis-2
- 16:39 UTC NASA Space Station ... Emergency Training, Eye Checks Ahead of Spacewalks Astronaut Chris Cassidy is pictured in his U.S. spacesuit halfway inside the crew lock portion of the Quest airlock during a spacewalk on July 1, 2020.The International Space Station was ...
- 15:44 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... Cosmic cataclysm allows precise test of general relativit...
- 15:28 UTC AMSAT-UK ISS Slow Scan TV for 45th Apollo-Soyuz anniversary Artist’s impression of the docking of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraftESA Education has released tutorial videos explaining how to make use of various computers and mobile devices to receive the ...
- 15:19 UTC Nanowerk Space Expl... New telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby sta...
- 15:10 UTC Physics World Blog David Leckrone on his 33 years with the Hubble Space Tele... Launched three decades ago, the Hubble Space Telescope is a triumph of the modern scientific era. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we hear from David Leckrone, ...
- 15:06 UTC Physics World Blog David Leckrone’s scientific highlights from three decades... David Leckrone's scientific highlightsDavid Leckrone's scientific highlightsRecently, I had a fantastic conversation with David Leckrone, an astrophysicist who spent 33 years working on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Much of that ...
- 14:42 UTC Centauri Dreams Spin-Orbit Alignment: A Lesson from Beta Pictoris? I hadn’t planned to write about the recent work out of the University of Exeter on Beta Pictoris, but yesterday’s article on KELT-9b dealt with planetary alignment, given that the ...
- 14:30 UTC Scientific American Aliens Could Have a Hundred Eyes
- 14:17 UTC Coalition for Deep ... Today’s Deep Space Extra In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A 2021 NASA budget bill has begun its annual trek through Congress, $2.6 billion shy of the White House request needed to accelerate the return ...
- 13:56 UTC Chandra X-ray Obser... When An Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object
- 13:50 UTC SciTech Daily Comet NEOWISE Sizzles As It Slides by the Sun – A Treat f...
- 13:30 UTC Parabolic Arc Comet NEOWISE Sizzles as It Slides by the Sun, Providing ... Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE appears as a string of fuzzy red dots in this composite of several heat-sensitive infrared images taken by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) ...
- 13:10 UTC Spaceflight Now Mars rover mated with Atlas 5 launcher after teams deal w... The Atlas 5 rocket’s payload shroud containing the Perseverance rover was raised atop the launch vehicle Tuesday, July 7. Credit: NASA/Christian ManganoNASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been hoisted on top ...
- 13:00 UTC OrbitalHub Astrobiology Wikipedia dicit: Astrobiology, formerly known as exobiology, is an interdisciplinary scientific field concerned with the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. Astrobiology considers the question ...
- 13:00 UTC Bad Astronomy More black hole weirdness: They bend light so much they s... I like to think that anyone is capable of some self-reflection. I would not, however, have thought to include black holes in that ability.
- 12:46 UTC Drew Ex Machina The Soviet Space Exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science ... When I was growing up in the 1970s, I was already an avid space enthusiast who tried to keep abreast of all the latest space missions. While there was plenty ...
- 12:21 UTC NASASpaceFlight.com Long March 3B launches APStar-6D China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) launched the APStar-6D communications satellite on Thursday using the Long March-3B/G2 – Chang Zheng-3B/G2 (Y64) rocket. The launch took place at 12:10 UTC from ...
- 12:00 UTC Parabolic Arc Heat Shield Milestone Complete for First Orion Mission wi... Orion heat shield for the Artemis II mission. (Credit: NASA/Isaac Watson) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (NASA PR) — Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently finished meticulously applying ...
- 11:30 UTC Scientific American Comet NEOWISE Could Be Spectacular: Here's How to See It Already visible to the naked eye, the object may soon brighten to create the greatest celestial light show in decades—or it could simply fade away -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- 11:18 UTC Space News House Republicans criticize NASA spending bill WASHINGTON — As the head of NASA emphasized what he saw as bipartisan support for the agency in Congress, several Republican members of the House criticized colleagues for a fiscal ...
- 10:42 UTC EarthSky Blog NASA announces Venus rover challenge winners View larger. | This collage shows all 15 finalists for NASA’s “Exploring Hell” Venus rover competition. In all, designers, makers, and citizen scientists in 82 countries submitted 572 entries. Image ...
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News A fresh look at a cosmic “jewel bug”
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News The Sun's lost siblings
- 10:00 UTC Astronomy.com News Photo gallery: Comet NEOWISE shines in the morning sky
- 08:43 UTC Parabolic Arc NASA Selects 10 Small Business Proposals for Lunar ISRU by Douglas MessierManaging Editor As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the moon in the Artemis program, the space agency is increasingly eyeing the use of lunar resources to ...
- 05:50 UTC SALT Astronomy Night Log 2020-07-08 SA: RosalindSO: VeronicaOthers: Lee in training ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ Much of the night was lost to high winds before the approaching storm. We did a first MOS imaging polarimetry block and some ...
- 04:01 UTC Bob Moler's Ephemer... 07/09/2020 – Ephemeris – The constellation of Lyra the ha... Jul 9. This is Bob Moler with Ephemeris for Thursday, July 9th. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 22 minutes, setting at 9:29, and it will ...
- 04:00 UTC The Guardian How many contactable alien civilisations are out there? –...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Another Lively Season of Night-Shining Clouds Extremely cold and wet conditions in the mesosphere have led to abundant noctilucent clouds. Read More...
- 04:00 UTC NASA: Earth Observa... Of Mosquitoes and Models: Tracking Disease by Satellite A few decades ago, the idea of predicting a disease outbreak via satellite was science fiction. But today, researchers can use environmental data to predict when and where some diseases ...
- 03:29 UTC SpacePolicyOnline.c... House CJS Subcommittee Approves FY2021 Bill, But Not With... The House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee approved the FY2021 bill that funds NASA today, but the voice vote included some noes as Democrats and Republicans disagreed on priorities. The Democratic-led ...
- 02:12 UTC Universe Today Languages Will Change Significantly on Interstellar Fligh...
- 00:38 UTC Sky and Telescope Comet NEOWISE Delights at Dawn

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