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»» Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Tilted Exoplanet
[Friday, November 13, 2009] Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit.
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»» Beyond Augustine II
[Wednesday, November 4, 2009] In August of this year I wrote a missive concerning what happens after the Augustine report is released. Well, now that has happened, so what is next?
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»» NASA Ice Bridge: Airborne campaign over Antarctica to continue critical ice measurements
[Monday, October 26, 2009] The first flight of Operation Ice Bridge's Antarctic campaign flew Oct. 16, 2009, along the Amundsen Coast. The aircraft's downward-looking Digital Mapping System camera captured images of sea ice from an altitude of about 6,000 meters.
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»» Second SpaceX Dragonlab User Conference
[Wednesday, October 21, 2009] SpaceX has announced a second user conference for its commercial product DragonLab, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from orbit.
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»» How The Moon Produces Its Own Water
[Thursday, October 15, 2009] The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing water.
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»» Giant Impact Near India -- Not Mexico -- May Have Doomed Dinosaurs
[Thursday, October 15, 2009] A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 million years ago.
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»» Satellite data look behind the scenes of deadly earthquake
[Thursday, October 15, 2009] Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in China's Sichuan Province.
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»» Video: Guy Laliberte's First Poetic Social Mission In Space
[Monday, October 12, 2009] Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil and the ONE DROP Foundation, unveiled the artistic concept behind his poetic social mission, which will be carried out from the ISS. This is the first ever artistic and social event to originate from space.
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»» NASA and its International Partners Assign Space Station Crews
[Wednesday, October 7, 2009] NASA and its international partners have assigned five new International Space Station crews and made changes to four previously assigned station crews.
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»» AMASE 2009 blog: Searching for Martian life... on Earth. And farewell, Svalbard!
[Tuesday, October 6, 2009] As we prepare for future "Search for Life' NASA and ESA missions, a crucial goal is also to test 'life' i.e., the biology is also one of our primary tasks.
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