news archive 2011
December 30, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Ringing in the new year with spacecraft reaching the Moon
Universe Today:
NASA's Unprecedented Science Twins are GO to Orbit our Moon on New Year's Eve
Discovery News:
Probes May Find Remnants of Moon's Lost Sibling
Space.com:
China Unveils Space Mission Plans Through 2016
Space Daily:
China makes rapid progress, breakthroughs in space industry: white paper
Space Daily:
China to launch Shenzhou-9, Shenzhou-10 spacecraft next year: spokesman
Space Daily:
China to push forward human spaceflight projects in next five years: white paper
Space Daily:
China to launch orbiters for lunar soft landing in next five years: white paper
Space.com:
Construction of World's Largest Telescope Begins in 2012
Universe Today:
LRO Lets You Stand on the Rim of Aristarchus Crater
Discovery News:
Weirdest Mars Craters: Photos
December 29, 2011
Space.com:
NASA's Twin Moon Probes Set for Lunar Arrival This Weekend
Spaceflight Now:
Globalstar satellites 'flawlessly' orbited by Soyuz
Space.com:
2011 Was the Year of the Restless Sun
Space.com:
Rare Galaxy from 'Dawn of Time' Photographed
Space.com:
First Meteor Shower of 2012 Arrives Next Week
Space.com:
2012 Meteor Shower Skywatching Calendar
Daily Mail:
New astronomy software creates the first accurate visions of other worlds - including what Earth looked like 240 million years ago
Register Citizen:
Winsted UFO creator says he wants to educate the public, and built a flying object to prove it
December 28, 2011
Daily Mail:
Massive solar storm 'could knock out radio signals' over next three days, warn scientists
Space.com:
Sun Storms May Super-Charge Northern Lights Wednesday
Space.com:
Parts of Doomed Russian Mars Probe to Hit Earth in January
Space.com:
Russian Soyuz Rocket to Launch 6 Satellites Today
Spaceflight Now:
Six Globalstar satellites on track for liftoff Wednesday
Space.com:
China's Satellite Navigation System is Online
Daily Mail:
China's rival GPS system goes online for the Republic's people to use... and it can guide missiles to an accuracy of 10m
Space.com:
2011: A Year of Transition for Human Spaceflight
Space.com:
12 Space Missions to Watch in 2012
Discovery News:
SETI to Scour the Moon for Alien Footprints?
Daily Mail:
Huge black hole at the heart of Milky Way 'could suck in planets', say astronomers
December 27, 2011
Universe Today:
Phobos-Grunt Predicted to Fall in Afghanistan on January 14
Daily Mail:
Twin Nasa spacecraft swing into orbit to look inside moon's core
Space Daily:
Launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket postponed
Space.com:
China Lofts New Satellite, Breaks US Rocket Launch Record
Daily Mail:
It is a comet? Is it a UFO? No, it's space junk from exploding Russian satellite caught shooting across European skies
Daily Mail:
Russian has amazing escape as fragment from exploded satellite smashes into his house in COSMONAUT street
Daily Mail:
Great space ball mystery SOLVED: Metal sphere that crashed to Earth in Namibian desert is a fuel tank from an unmanned rocket (not a 'doomsday device')
December 26, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket falls in Siberia after launch mishap
Spaceflight Now:
Tracking satellite retired after 22 years of service
Space.com:
The 12 Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2012
Digital Journal:
National Geographic's UFO hoax over Connecticut mall
The Guardian:
We should scour the moon for ancient traces of aliens, say scientists
WEEKEND EDITION: December 24-25, 2011
Scientific American:
Does the "Goddamn" Higgs Particle Portend the End of Physics?
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - Special Relativity From First Principles
Gizmodo:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Neutrinos - in Less Than Two Minutes
Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider has first confirmed sighting of new particle (but it's not the Higgs)
Innovation News:
Top 10 Disruptive Tech Stories of 2011
Daily Mail:
Scientists recreate the hellish conditions of the Earth's core in a California lab
io9:
All multi-cellular life might be descended from a parasitic invasion
Daily Mail:
Was the volcanic burning of vast coal fields the cause of the 'Great Dying' 250million years ago?
Daily Mail:
First-ever evidence of giant plant-eating dinosaurs found in Antarctica
Live Science:
What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011
Live Science:
Humans Originated Near Rivers, Evidence Suggests
io9:
Can you name the stages of human evolution in this circle of skulls?
Daily Mail:
Forget the cave! Neanderthals were homely creatures who built their own houses from mammoth bones
Live Science:
Ancient Texts Tell Tales of War, Bar Tabs
Daily Mail:
Bracelet reveals amazing craftsman's skill from 7500BC (so good it couldn't be bettered today)
Daily Mail:
Is this rocky Welsh outcrop the EXACT spot where Stonehenge's Bluestones were hewn from the earth 5,000 years ago?
io9:
10 Pieces of Nasty Ancient Graffitti - Now Translated!
Live Science:
Deciphered Ancient Tablet Reveals Curse of Greengrocer
Daily Mail:
Plants no longer to be given Latin-only name 'so they can be classified before they die out'
The Guardian:
Science review of 2011: the year's 10 biggest stories
The Guardian:
Science in 2011: Triumphs, disasters and climaxes - in pictures
Innovation News:
5 Big Future Breakthroughs in Innovation
The Guardian:
Alan Turing: My Favourite Scientist
Nature:
Features of the year
Cosmos:
Science in review: 10 biggest stories for 2011
Gizmodo:
I Can't Look At These Warped Airport Photos Without Getting Dizzy
Popular Science:
How Neanderthal Are You?
io9:
The Man Who Told the Internet He'd Come from the Future
io9:
A 1969 plan to build a second, nuke-proof Manhattan below New York City
io9:
A Travel Guide to Prehistoric Places in North America
Gizmodo:
Charles and Ray Eames Explain the Computer Revolution
Gizmodo:
These Letters of Wannabe Space Explorers Broke My Heart
Irish Times:
Dear Santa Letter sent 100 years ago found up chimney
December 23, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Final Chinese launch tally surpasses U.S. rocket fleet
Space.com:
Solar Wind May Explain Planet Mercury's Puny Magnetic Field
Universe Today:
Colorful Holiday Treats from Saturn
Daily Mail:
Hubble picture shows 'space rose' flowering - actually two galaxies colliding 300 million light years away
Daily Mail:
Blow for 'dark matter' theory as scientists find faint, undetected star
New Scientist:
Variable dark energy could explain old galaxy clusters
Universe Today:
Spherical Object Drops from the Sky in Namibia
Huddersfield Daily Examiner:
Flying saucer clouds hit Huddersfield: Your pictures
December 22, 2011
Space.com:
Next trio launches on space station's 30th expedition
Space Daily:
Russia sends multinational crew to ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Photo gallery: Soyuz rocket blasts off with 3-man crew
Discovery News:
Icy 'hand' moves boulders on Mars
NASA News:
Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta
Space.com:
Hard-to-Kill Alien Planets Survive Dying Star's Last Gasp
Space Daily:
Exo planets that survived red giant stage found
Popular Science:
Newly Discovered "Fried" Planets Are Smallest Ever
Daily Mail:
Burned-out planets offer vision of how Earth will die (in five billion years time)
Space.com:
Do Newfound Alien Planets Need Better Names?
NASA News:
NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time
Universe Today:
Earth’s Other Moons
io9:
Gravitational lensing twists distant galaxy into an Einstein Ring
Discover Magazine:
The Computer Program That Draws Realistic Exoplanets
Space.com:
December's Ursid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
December 21, 2011
Gizmodo:
Earth Has a Second Moon, Astronomers Say
Spaceflight Now:
First Earth-size worlds found orbiting another star
Universe Today:
First Earth-Sized Exoplanets Found by Kepler
Space.com:
Found! 2 Earth-Size Alien Planets, the Smallest Exoplanets Yet
Discovery News:
Meet Kepler's 'Earth-Sized' Exoplanets
Space.com:
Gallery: First Earth-Size Alien Planets Discovered
Space.com:
Could There Be Life on the New Earth-Size Planets?
Space.com:
First True 'Alien Earth' May Be Found in 2012
Space.com:
New Space Crew to Launch From Winter Wonderland on Wednesday
Wired UK:
Jupiter's core could be dissolving
Discovery News:
Peering Deep into Titan's Impressive Atmosphere: Big Pic
New Scientist:
Astrophile: Stopped clocks deepen pulsar enigmas
Popular Science:
Video: SpaceX's Future Rocket System Will Guide Itself Home, Land Gently on the Launchpad
National Post:
Winter Solstice 2011: The shortest day of the year, and the official start of winter
December 20, 2011
Space.com:
NASA to Announce Discovery of New Alien Planets Tuesday
Daily Mail:
Nasa tests floating robot servant for Space Station - powered (of course) by an Android phone
International Business Times:
Jupiter's Eroding Core may Show Large Exoplanets Have no Cores at all: Study
Universe Today:
Surprising Comet Lovejoy Now Becoming Merry and Bright
Gizmag:
Vision-based system that imitates insects designed to improve navigation of UAVs
Universe Today:
Missions that Weren’t: NASA’s Manned Mission to Venus
io9:
How We Will Terraform Mars
December 19, 2011
Space.com:
Failed Mars Probe's Fall From Space May Help Re-Entry Predictions
Spaceflight Now:
Powerful Nigerian satellite ready for liftoff from China
Economic Times:
ILO-X, a small telescope on the moon, to let scientists see the sky from lunar surface
Universe Today:
Features of the year
Spaceflight Now:
Deep Impact sets path for asteroid encounter in 2020
Discovery News:
NASA Considers 7-Day Mission to Europa
Space.com:
Meteorites Trigger Avalanches on Mars
Space.com:
Sun Rips Tail From Comet During Solar Close Encounter
Wall Street Journal:
A Clue to How Planets Formed
Washington Times:
Roswell, UFOs, White Sands and fifty foot pistachios: A drive through New Mexico
WEEKEND EDITION: December 17-18, 2011
Discovery News:
2012 Doomsday and Other Signs of the End Times
Live Science:
String Theorists Simulate the Big Bang
Scientific American:
Astronomers Find Evidence of a Special Direction in Space
io9:
Could a planet have only one pole?
The Guardian:
Science Weekly podcast: An accelerated guide to the Higgs boson
io9:
Did they really detect the Higgs Boson?
Live Science:
What Should 'God Particle' Be Renamed? Physicists Weigh In
The Guardian:
Why one Higgs boson will not be enough
Popular Science:
Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
Scientific American:
In Physics, Telling Cranks from Experts Ain't Easy
Discovery News:
Could a Planet Be 'Cloaked'?
Space.com:
Astronomy Without A Telescope – How Big Is Big?
io9:
Chase solar storms without even leaving your house
Daily Mail:
The camera that can capture 1 trillion frames a second - fast enough for slow-motion video of light particles moving through the air
Innovation News:
Where Is My Jet Pack?
Innovation News:
Running with Chainsaws: A History of Robot Violence
Dvice:
Watch this insectoid robot brutally attack a cute plush toy
Innovation News:
Video Friday: Hexapod Robot Transforms Into Death Star
io9:
10 Charming, Old-Timey Spy Gadgets
io9:
Behold: Complex, self-assembling, 3D objects
IEEE Spectrum:
New Next-Gen Nao Is Now the New Nao
Innovation News:
$5,000 Kit to Send Your Own Rocket to the Moon
Innovation News:
World's Smallest Steam Engine Replaces Pistons with Lasers
io9:
Listen to the National Weather Service's robot sing "Deck the Halls"
Daily Mail:
Could lungfish have been the first to walk on land?
Live Science:
'Hopping' Fish Suggests Walking Originated Underwater
Daily Mail:
Paleontologists unveil bones of 'biggest' dinosaur in U.S.
Daily Mail:
Velociraptor didn't slash prey, it 'hooked' victims and ate them alive - and its claws may have led to the evolution of flight
Live Science:
Velociraptors' Killer Claws Helped Them Eat Prey Alive
Live Science:
Is Triceratops One or Three Species? Debate Continues
Nature:
First ancient proteome revealed
Live Science:
1,000 Hidden Species Revealed in Aussie Outback Underground
Live Science:
Head Butts and Waggle Dances: How Honeybees Make Decisions
io9:
And now, two mimic octopuses making sweet, sweet love
Daily Mail:
Shark that smiles for the cameras: Meet the fearsome creature that eats polar bears and can live until 200
Live Science:
The Guppy: Newest Top Predator?
io9:
Songbirds caught evolving into separate species
Daily Mail:
First-ever picture of a snow leopard in Siberia… perhaps next time he'll turn around
Live Science:
208 Species Discovered in Asia's Mekong Region in 1 Year
Wired UK:
Mekong yields new species every two days in 2010
The Guardian:
Toronto's 'gay penguins' go their separate ways
Live Science:
Seal Makes Long-Distance Jaunt of 18,000 Miles
Wired UK:
Baby sloth orphanage: The cutest place on Earth
Live Science:
Babies Picky About Who They Imitate
io9:
Babies understand grammar long before they learn how to speak
Daily Mail:
Early man shed his fur AFTER we first 'stood up' - when we found racing around on two feet was far too hot
Cosmos:
Fear of snakes? This could be why
Science Magazine:
An 'Arms Race' Between Snakes and Humans
Daily Mail:
Make mine a jumbo: Early man 'lived on' elephant meat - so much so we wiped them out in the Middle East
io9:
Modern humans may have evolved 200,000 years earlier than we thought
Daily Mail:
Was a keen sense of smell the key ingredient that allowed early man to outpace Neanderthals?
Daily Mail:
Last secret doors of Great Pyramid 'to be opened in 2012', says British company
Daily Mail:
Dog walker stumbles across 4,000-year-old Stone Age camp
Live Science:
Ancient Offering Discovered Beneath Pyramid of the Sun
Daily Mail:
Incredible Viking hoard from days of Alfred the Great could 'fill in the blanks' about a murky period in British history
Daily Mail:
Sir Isaac Newton's handwritten notes about momentous discovery of laws of motion and gravity now available online
Gizmodo:
The Day Mankind Swallowed the Globe
Los Angeles Times:
Seattle's Space Needle at 50: The rush job is holding strong
Science Magazine:
'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech
Dvice:
Periodic Table of Swearing helps you pick out expletives to shout
Dvice:
Hide out from the zombie apocalypse in this missile silo home
Gizmodo:
Photorealistic Nature Inspired Carpets Bring the Outdoors Inside
Gizmodo:
What's Not to Love About Shape-Shifting, Space-Saving Furniture from the '50s?
Dvice:
50 most popular Christmas toys from the last 100 years
Dvice:
15 educational gifts for geeky kids
Gizmag:
Greib and Benzinger unveil latest extraordinary "restoration" - the Blue Ocean Watch
Gizmodo:
Gifts for the Road Trip Master
Dvice:
8 giftable vacations that sound like science fiction
io9:
io9's Ultimate Futuristic Gift Guide for 2011
Dvice:
The DVICE Best Tech of 2011 Awards
io9:
A tutorial on building your own Golden Snitch ornament
io9:
How are candy canes made?
io9:
10 Intrepid Animal Astronauts
io9:
Beautiful astrogeological maps reveal the Moon's mysterious far side
io9:
Now you can explore the surface of Mars at unprecedented levels of detail
io9:
10 How to pretend you're aboard the Starship Enterprise (from the safety of your home)
io9:
What if Raiders Of The Lost Ark was stop-motion animated?
Wired:
Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: 9 Secret Military Programs You Shouldn't Know
Gizmodo:
The First Millisecond of a Nuclear Explosion Is the True Face of Atomic Death
December 16, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Revises Plan to Buy Private Space Taxis
Spaceflight Now:
NASA rethinks mechanics for commercial crew contracts
Spaceflight Now:
NASA decision increases risk in commercial crew program
Daily Mail:
What goes up, must come down: Stricken Russian probe will plummet to Earth next month - and no one knows where it will strike
Daily Mail:
Comet survives hellish journey through the Sun - where it's a toasty 1.1millionC
Universe Today:
Lovejoy Lives! Comet Survives Solar Encounter
Daily Mail:
Life on Mars IS possible: Earth microbes thrive in icy lava tubes - and 'eat' iron-rich rocks
Space Daily:
MARSIS Completes Measurement Campaign Over Martian North Pole
Space Daily:
Is there profit in outer space
Space Daily:
Can Billionaire Paul Allen's Mega-Plane Really Launch Private Rockets Into Space?
Discovery News:
The Complex Beauty of Solar System Navigation
Daily Mail:
So where's the stereo? Mind-boggling cockpit of space shuttle Atlantis revealed
Daily Mail:
Happy Christmas from the Hubble: Nasa shows off seasonal 'snow angel' galaxy
io9:
10 Extraordinary Exoplanets Discovered in 2011: A Gallery
Discovery News:
Fact and Fiction In 2011's Sci-Fi Movies: Photos
December 15, 2011
Space Daily:
Russian who helped put Gagarin in space dies at 99
NASA Science:
Curiosity and the Solar Storm
io9:
Why the mysterious Gale Crater is an "ideal landing site" for the new Mars rover
Spaceflight Now:
Mars-bound rover previewing the experience for astronauts
Space.com:
Russian Official Calls Troubled Mars Probe 'Mission Impossible'
Universe Today:
Russian Lunar Exploration Program at Full Speed, Despite Failure of Mars Moon Probe
Space.com:
'Dream' Space Telescope for Military Could Spy Anywhere on Earth
Space.com:
Planets Venus and Jupiter Own the Night (Infographic)
Discovery News:
Could Galactic Cataclysms Be Recorded on the Moon?
Scientific American:
Off the Beam: Did a U.S. Radar Research Station Disable Russia's Phobos Probe?
Eworldwire:
Solving The UFO Enigma: How Modern Physics is Revealing the Technology of UFOs, Published by Author Robert L. Schroeder
PR.com:
New Book Tells of Alleged 1964 UFO Encounter in California
December 14, 2011
Universe Today:
The Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of the Last Moonwalk
Popular Science:
Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle
Spaceflight Now:
Private spaceflight gets new contender with Stratolaunch
New Scientist:
Aerospace dream team aims to launch people into orbit
Space.com:
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Unveils Giant Plane for Private Space Launches
Space.com:
Billionaire Paul Allen's New Space Project Has Deep Roots
Space.com:
Stratolaunch Images: Paul Allen's Giant Rocket-Launching Plane
Space.com:
Biggest Aircraft in History to Launch Spaceships Into Orbit (Infographic)
Universe Today:
Russian Space Program Prepares for Phobos-Grunt Re-Entry
NASA News:
NASA Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space
NASA News:
NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return
New Scientist:
AI to predict sun's next attack on Earth
Nature:
Super-Earths give theorists a super headache
Space Daily:
20th Space Control Squadron: AFSPC's premier space surveillance squadron
December 13, 2011
NASA News:
Portraits of Moons Captured by Cassini
NASA News:
NASA's Dawn Spirals Down to Lowest Orbit
Space.com:
Meet Antares: Private Rocket Project Gets New Name
Spaceflight Now:
Commercial rocket gets new name as debut launch nears
Universe Today:
A Day in the Sun: Will It Make a Difference for Russia's Phobos-Grunt?
Universe Today:
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is Now Online!
Daily Mail:
It's in there somewhere! World of physics ecstatic as first hard evidence of God particle is found by CERN researchers
Space.com:
Long-Sought 'God Particle' Cornered, Scientists Say
Science Magazine:
In Search for Higgs Boson, Physicists Report a Definite Maybe
Space.com:
December's Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
Daily Maverick:
2011: A year of pushing space frontiers
December 12, 2011
Space.com:
First Private Spaceship Flight to Space Station Announced
Space Daily:
NASA Announces Launch Date and Milestones for Spacex Flight
Space Daily:
Failed Mars probe to fall to Earth
Space.com:
Antarctica Shines as Icy Bastion of Space Science
Space Daily:
Much Ado about Space Debris
Universe Today:
Martian Sundial - A New "Curiosity"
Space Daily:
Life possible on 'large parts' of Mars: study
Daily Mail:
Mercury's wobbly orbit could be due to huge 'basin-forming' impact from asteroid
Cosmos:
Giant asteroid crash altered Mercury's spin
Space Daily:
Cassini to make closest apporach to Dione
Space.com:
Jupiter's Moon Europa Is Target for Possible NASA Lander
Space Daily:
Is Vesta the Smallest Terrestrial Planet
io9:
Where in the solar system do these colorful meteorites come from?
Universe Today:
Skywatchers Share Lunar Eclipse Photos, Videos
Space.com:
Full Moon May Spoil Geminid Meteor Shower's Peak Tomorrow
Space.com:
2012 Apocalypse Fears Unfounded, NASA Says
Space.com:
NASA Engages Public With New Custom Internet Radio Station
Daily Mail:
'Observation' of God particle expected at CERN tomorrow - scientists
Weekend Edition: December 10-11, 2011
Scientific American:
New Theory Explains How Objective Reality Emerges from the Strange Underlying Quantum World
Discovery News:
Rumors Erupt Over Higgs Boson Discovery
Scientific American:
Where's My Higgs? LHC Physicist Joe Lykken Speaks
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - Could Dark Matter Not Matter?
Astrobiology Magzine:
Tidal Locking Could Render Habitable Planets Inhospitable
BBC:
Life on Earth: Is our planet special?
Physics Today:
The curious aftermath of Neptune's discovery
Gizmag:
Robotville: the androids are coming
IEEE Spectrum:
Qbo Robot Passes Mirror Test, Is Therefore Self-Aware
io9:
Watch a fleet of flying robots assemble a 20-foot indoor tower
Daily Mail:
Flippin' eck! Jetpack lets you become a human dolphin
Daily Mail:
The 'car of the future' (from 1969) is back on the road: armed with CCTV, hydraulic roof... and a magnetic 'GPS' system
Daily Mail:
The 'living video' you step inside: Sony hints at the future of entertainment with 'cinema' that erupts out of the sofa and the walls
Gizmag:
The extraordinary Swildens desk recreated
io9:
We can encrypt secret messages in opal
Daily Mail:
Scientists map Earth's deepest point, Challenger Deep - before four rival manned missions race to the bottom
Astrobiology Magazine:
Early Earth May Have Been Prone to Deep Freezes
Live Science:
Could the Dead Sea Completely Vanish?
io9:
Lamarck's bizarre theory of evolution may turn out to be right after all?
Popular Science:
Biologists Sequence Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium
Daily Mail:
Original 'bug-eyed' monster found: It was a 500m-year-old predator that ruled the oceans
io9:
Scary 515 million-year-old predator had better vision than almost any animal alive today
Cosmos:
Ancient killer had excellent vision
Daily Mail:
Dinosaur skull dismissed as 'rubbish' for 90 years is new species - a 'missing link' in the triceratops family
Daily Mail:
Woolly mammoth to be brought back to life from cloned bone marrow 'within five years'
io9:
No, we won't be able to clone a woolly mammoth in the next five years
Live Science:
Rarest Bumblebee in US Rediscovered
io9:
Bee swarms behave just like neurons in the human brain
io9:
The Blanket Octopus, One Of The Most Alien Animals To Swim The Earth
Daily Mail:
Cleverer than a child of four, the birds who can read your mind
Daily Mail:
Chimps 'trade' just like humans - and some even indulge in 'the oldest profession'
Nature:
The chimpanzee who sees sounds
Popular Science:
Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
Science Magazine:
Earliest Human Beds Found in South Africa
Cosmos:
Oldest known mattresses kept the bugs away
Daily Mail:
Bronze Age man's lunch was a bowl of nettle stew, biggest find of intact artefacts reveals
Daily Mail:
Coining it in: Britain's largest collection of Roman offerings to the gods arrives at British Museum
Live Science:
Real Mayan Apocalypse May Have Been Their Own Fault
Gizmodo:
Experts Are Baffled by These Mysterious Ancient Markings Found In Jerusalem
National Geographic:
In Search of Leonardo's Lost Painting
Daily Mail:
'Old Man With A Beard' WAS painted by Rembrandt: New X ray technique solves art riddle
Gizmodo:
How Christmas Tree Lights Evolved from Major to Mild Fire Hazard
New Scientist:
Hollywood star whose invention paved the way for Wi-Fi
Montreal Gazette:
Audience embarks on planetary journey
io9:
A Beautiful Look at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, When The Future Was Magical
Nature:
Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion
Dvice:
9 new Portal-themed goodies warp in just in time for the holidays
Gizmodo:
The Kisai Rogue Touch Fob Watch Redefines Geek Chic
Dvice:
11 handy adventure gadgets for the intrepid explorer
Gizmodo:
Marvelous Gifts for the Comic Fanboy
io9:
Read the first drafts of the Star Trek opening monologue
December 9, 2011
Stuff NZ:
The Misplaced Stuff: Nasa loses moon, space rocks
Dvice:
Japan megaquake shifted gravity satellite orbits
Universe Today:
Mars Orbiters Will Attempt to Take Pictures of the Curiosity Rover as It Lands
Spaceflight Now:
Next space station trio counting down to blastoff
Space.com:
Lunar Eclipse Will Supersize Blood-Red Moon Saturday
Popular Science:
A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes
The Globe And Mail:
In search of a city's tattered, battered monuments to the space age
December 8, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Rover Finds Convincing Evidence of Water on Ancient Mars
Space Daily:
Mars Opportunity Rover Finds Rich Vein Of Gypsum Water Deposits
Discovery News:
Ancient Mars Water? Mineral Find Makes It a Slam-Dunk
Space.com:
Solar Weather Forecasting Becomes Vital as Sun Gears Up for Wild Ride
Universe Today:
Not Giving Up Yet: ESA Resumes Effort to Communicate with Phobos-Grunt
Space.com:
Mystery of Mars Gullies Solved
Discovery News:
Year-long Mega-Storms Roil Saturn
Space.com:
'Starquakes' Reveal Hidden Secrets Inside Stars
Space.com:
Asian Space Race Is Heating Up, US Policy Expert Warns
Space.com:
Saturday's Lunar Eclipse Will Include 'Impossible' Sight
December 7, 2011
Wired:
Reliving the Momentous 1882 Transit of Venus
Space.com:
Russia's Mars Probe Appears 'Dead in the Water'
Space.com:
How NASA's Curiosity Rover Will Study Building Blocks of Life
Discovery News:
Asteroid Vesta Not An Asteroid After All
Reuters:
NASA catalogs thousands of asteroids near Earth
NASA Spaceflight:
"Asteroid Next" missions: Proving Grounds for future crewed Mars missions
Time Maazine:
Closing In On a Second Earth
The Sun:
A planet we could live on... if it wasn't 4,000 billion miles away
The Conversation:
Don't pack your bags yet – Kepler-22b (probably) isn't the next Earth
Space.com:
Gallery: A World of Kepler Planets
Space.com:
NASA Telescope Likely to Find Many More Alien Planets
Space.com:
Total Lunar Eclipse Visible to North America Saturday
Universe Today:
Coming Attraction: Geminid Meteor Shower 2011
Digital Journal:
Solar storm can strip a planet of its atmosphere, says NASA study
Discovery News:
Top 5 REAL Cosmic Doomsday Events of 2011
Wired UK:
Video: Lightning sprites caught exploding over thunderclouds
New Zealand Herald:
One-third of Kiwis believe in alien visits
Farmington Daily Times:
UFOs won't visit Aztec next year
December 6, 2011
Space Daily:
NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life
Spaceflight Now:
Kepler finds planet in another star's comfort zone
Discovery News:
SETI to Hunt for Aliens on Kepler's Worlds
Space.com:
NASA Probe Enters Unexplored 'Cosmic Purgatory' at Solar System's Edge
Daily Mail:
New views of giant asteroid Vesta reveal it could be 'more like a planet' say scientists
Space.com:
Newfound Comet to Dive Through Sun Next Week
Space.com:
Nearly All Kepler Potential Planets May Be the Real Deal
Space.com:
Some Alien Planets Could Be Made of Diamonds, Study Finds
Space.com:
Planets Large and Small Populate Our Galaxy (Infographic)
Live Science:
Hundreds of Alien Worlds Come Into View (Infographic)
National Geographic:
Pictures: Five "Cursed" Mars Missions
Daily Mail:
IBM braces itself for 'deluge' of data from telescope which outputs an 'exabyte' of data a day - more traffic than the whole internet
Open Minds:
Berlin Court orders release of official UFO study, but government appeals
December 5, 2011
ZD.NET UK:
Kepler finds first 'habitable' planet orbiting distant star
Space.com:
Astronomers Discover 18 Huge New Alien Planets
Discovery News:
New Batch of Giant Alien Worlds Found
Spaceflight Now:
ESA shutting down Phobos-Grunt listening campaign
Universe Today:
Mars Express Reveals Possible Martian Glaciers
Space Daily:
Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future
NASA Science:
New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto
Spaceflight Now:
Cassini radar paints new view of icy Enceladus
Jamaica Observer:
Spacecraft to reach end of solar system by 2014
Time Magazine:
NASA's Cosmic Children: Taking Stock of a Growing Interplanetary Fleet
Spaceflight Now:
China's launch rate set to surpass United States
Daily Mail:
The first 'index' of habitable worlds finds 47 likely candidates - but half are MOONS
New York Times:
Hot on Trail of ‘Just Right' Far-Off Planet
SETI Institute:
SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array, Targeting New Planets
Cosmos:
Total lunar eclipse set for this weekend
The Guardian:
From the archive, 5 December 1956: Flying saucers: debunkers and believers
WEEKEND EDITION: December 3 thru 4, 2011
Gizmag:
Scientists create real photons from virtual ones
Popular Science:
Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement
Nature:
Entangled diamonds vibrate together
Universe Today:
Why Silicon-based Aliens Would Rather Eat our Cities than Us: Thoughts on Non-carbon Astrobiology
Scientific American:
This Way to Mars: How Technologies Borrowed from Robotic Missions Could Deliver Astronauts to Deep Space
Dvice:
Philips Bio-light concept lights the home using bacteria
Innovation News:
New Material Makes Objects Appear Invisible
Science Magazine:
Video: A Robot Jellyfish, New and Improved
Popular Science:
Cyborg Insects Could Be First Responders in Rescue Situations
Daily Mail:
The limbo-dancing robot that can change its shape to wiggle and crawl into tight spaces
Popular Science:
Video: Truck-Sized Inflatable Anteater 'Bot Traipses Through Water and Grass
Gizmag:
Flying robots to build a 6-meter tower
Daily Mail:
Can a robot REALLY 'bond' with autistic children? Caspar - and 20 other, weirder 'cyber-friends' - invade the Science Museum
Popular Science:
Video: Qbo Robot Learns to Recognize Itself in a Mirror
Innovation News:
New Vehicle Laser Blasts Everything from Drones to Bombs
Dvice:
Jetman fulfills destiny, actually flies in formation with jets
Gizmag:
Zoleco is a home-built 151 mpg concept car
Gizmodo:
9 Aesthetic Prosthetics
National Geographic:
Pictures: Amazing Transportation Inventions
IEEE Spectrum:
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners?
Gizmodo:
That Damn Classroom Clock You Always Despised as a Kid? It's Actually Pretty Great
io9:
What was the first math problem that we needed a computer to solve?
Popular Science:
Laser's Quantum Fluctuations Provide a Better, Faster Source of Random Numbers
Daily Mail:
'Anthrax isn't scary at all compared to this': Man-made flu virus with potential to wipe out many millions if it ever escaped is created in research lab
Astrobiology Magazine:
Could Natural Nuclear Reactors Have Boosted Life on This and Other Planets?
io9:
The ancestor of all life on Earth might have been a gigantic planetary super-organism
Live Science:
Diversity of Life Snowballed When Ancient Earth Was Frozen Solid
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's Most Extreme Extinction
io9:
Why did some dinosaurs have giant hollow bones in their backs?
Live Science:
World's Oldest Tiger Species Discovered
Daily Mail:
Meet the world's heaviest insect, which weighs three times more than a mouse... and even eats carrots
Science Magazine:
Ladybugs Changed Color in Response to Climate Change
Live Science:
New Butterfly Species ID'ed by DNA
Cosmos:
Turtle embryos can communicate across eggs
Nature:
Yeti crab grows its own food
Wired:
The Secret of Super-Fast Shark Swimming
Live Science:
Ravens Use 'Hand' Gestures to Communicate
io9:
Why has synesthesia survived throughout human evolutionary history?
Science Magazine:
Ancient Tools Point to Early Human Migration Into Arabia
Live Science:
Arabian Artifacts May Rewrite 'Out of Africa' Theory
io9:
Admit it - you totally would have had sex with Neandertals
Daily Mail:
The prehistoric trawlermen: Our ancestors mastered deep-sea fishing 42,000 years ago, cave find reveals
Live Science:
World's Oldest Fish Hooks Show Early Humans Fished Deep Sea
Nature:
Ancient Egyptian chariot trappings rediscovered
Wired UK:
Sun worship at Stonehenge predates the henge
io9:
Archaeologists are one step closer to unravelling the mysteries of Stonehenge
Daily Mail:
Mayan tablet which predicts the world ending in 2012 may have been 'misread', says expert - it's just the start of a new era
National Geographic:
Was "Stereo" Born 400 Years Ago in Venice?
io9:
The world's oldest known heliocentric model is completely backwards
io9:
In an alternate reality, this pyramid is the Lincoln Memorial
Daily Mail:
Violent games DO alter your brain - and the effect is visible in MRI scans in just a week
Dvice:
Beautiful pics of the Milky Way getting blasted with a laser
Gizmodo:
This Dog Is Made Entirely of Sprinkles
Universe Today:
Beginner's Guide To Binoculars
Dvice:
16 DIY projects that make perfect gifts for tech geeks
io9:
How to Rediscover the Obscure TV Shows and Movies that Made Your Childhood Weird
io9:
Women's fashion of 2000 AD (as predicted by a 1930s newsreel)
io9:
Gambling Horses And The Soviet Mars Colonies: 20 Retro-futuristic Visions Of The Red Planet
Popular Science:
Yugoslavian Crazyscience Magazine Galaksija Shows the 1970s Balkan Vision of the Future
Slate:
The Great Silence
E.T. is out there. Why can't we find him?
Slate:
How To Build a Beacon
If we can't find aliens, let's help aliens find us.
December 2, 2011
Discovery News:
Could Mars Rover Curiosity Infect Mars?
Spaceflight Now:
Mars Science Laboratory postpones adjusting course
Daily Mail:
Stricken Russian probe caught on film as it streaks across the sky 170 miles up
Popular Science:
Video: Playing With Fire Aboard the International Space Station
Popular Science:
Clear of Solar Pollution, Voyager Glimpses Star Formation in the Milky Way For the First Time
New Scientist:
Voyager space probes show outsiders' view of Milky Way
Spaceflight Now:
Successful Chinese space launch breaks annual record
Space Daily:
2012 Update: Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The Geologic Time
New Scientist:
Let's build a beacon to tell aliens who we were
December 1, 2011
Space.com:
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Had Planetary Protection Slip-Up
Space.com:
Skywatcher Snaps Photos of Stranded Russian Mars Probe
Space Daily:
Nanosail-D Sails Home
Popular Science:
NASA Commissions a Laundry Machine for the International Space Station
Discovery News:
Will We Find Oceans On Pluto?
Universe Today:
New Planet Kepler-21b Confirmed From Both Space And Ground
Discovery News:
New Mission for Secret Spaceplane?
Gizmodo:
The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold for $388,375
November 30, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Military space shuttle receives mission extension
Space Daily:
Veteran Mars Researcher Says Curiosity Spacecraft Can Confirm Viking Detected Life
Daily Mail:
These earthlings are real space pioneers: The worms that could lead mankind's way to Mars
Space.com:
How to See the Stars on the Longest Winter Nights
November 29, 2011
phillyBurbs.com:
Fact or fiction? Fire in the sky
Register-News:
UFO abductee escapes to tell the tale
Spaceflight Now:
Cruising to Mars, Curiosity awaits final software load
Discovery News:
Scary Landing Awaits Mars-Bound Rover
io9:
10 Unsolved Martian Mysteries
Space.com:
Pluto's Moons Could Spell Danger for New Horizons Spacecraft
Universe Today:
The Human Cost of Russia's Lost Spacecraft
Daily Mail:
Stunning new shot of 12mile-high asteroid cliff suggests massive landslide
Aviation Week:
Planetary Defense Plans For Asteroids Form
Scientific American:
Forget Asteroids—Send a Manned Flyby Mission to Venus
Wired:
It's a Drone's World. We Just Live in It
November 28, 2011
Space.com:
Next Stop Mars! Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet
Space.com:
Photos: NASA's Curiosity Rover Launches to Mars
Space.com:
NASA Rover Begins Long Cruise to Mars
IEEE Spectrum:
How NASA's Curiosity Rover Will Land on Mars
Space.com:
What's Next for Mars Exploration?
Space.com:
Russia's Troubled Mars Probe Highlights Falling Space Debris Hazard
Space Daily:
Did US climate weapon knock-out Russian probe?
Spaceflight Now:
Japan calls it quits on infrared space telescope
Space Daily:
Come Home X-37B
Space Daily:
15 patents granted for Chinese space docking technology
Space Daily:
Argus One UAV Completes Flight Testing With New Pod Bay and Propulsion System
Daily Mail:
'A very compelling case for life': Newly discovered planet is just like Earth and could contain liquid water
THANSGIVING WEEKEND EDITION: November 24 thru 27, 2011
io9:
Are we just a 3D hologram created by 2D information stored at the edge of the universe?
Scientific American:
What Is Life Like in Other Parts of the Multiverse? [Video]
Nature:
Quantum theorem shakes foundations
Dvice:
Swedes create light from absolute nothingness, God updates resume
Live Science:
Is the New Physics Here? Atom Smashers Get an Antimatter Surprise
Nature:
Higgs hunt enters endgame
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - Mass Is Energy
Universe Today:
Are Pulsars Giant Permanent Magnets?
Discovery News:
Alien Life May Live in Various Habitable Zones
io9:
What is the best way to locate the galaxy's habitable planets?
io9:
How you depend on relativity every day, without knowing it
Science Magazine:
The Physics of Wine Swirling
New York Times:
From Edison's Trunk, Direct Current Gets Another Look
Daily Mail:
Passing Cloud is the plane of the future... except for the fact you'd freeze solid, then plunge to your doom
Gizmodo:
DIY Machine Makes 3D Carvings Of Magnetic Fields
IEEE Spectrum:
Kinect-Powered Robot Lets You Clean Up Your House Remotely
Dvice:
Harvard creates a legion of tiny collective robots
Popular Science:
Aerovironment Nano Hummingbird UAV
Gizmodo:
Maze Solving Robot Mouse Makes Real Lab Mice Look Downright Stupid
IEEE Spectrum:
Liquid Robotics' Wave Gliders Begin Historic Swim Across Pacific
Gizmodo:
Watch a Drone Chopper Land on a Moving Target, Wonder Why Pilots Still Exist
Dvice:
This wind turbine is so big it has its own helipad
Gizmag:
The Aussies Have Built One Bad Ass Flight Simulator
Gizmodo:
16 Otherworldly Planetarium Projectors
Cosmos:
Sunken parts of Gondwana found off Australia
Daily Mail
Perfectly preserved T-Rex tooth discovered buried in farmer's field could fetch 19,000 at auction
Daily Mail
First proof of bird-eating dinosaur has scientists in a flap
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Horse Variety Predates Domestication
io9:
Four separate species of rats evolved to mooch off humans
Science Magazine:
Dissecting the Cave Lion Diet
Daily Mail:
How did 75 whales end up in the desert? Rows of prehistoric bones unearthed in one of the most significant discoveries of its kind
Gizmodo:
This Photo Really Gives a Perfect Idea of the Terrifying Size of a White Shark
io9:
Fairy wasps shrink to the size of amoeba by sacrificing their neurons
io9:
Watch this octopus heave itself onto land and walk around
Gizmodo:
This Creeping Underwater Ice Tornado Kills Everything It Touches
Live Science:
World's First Night-Blooming Orchid Discovered
io9:
Weird experiment recreates the sounds our distant ancestors made 3 million years ago
Live Science:
Our Male Ancestors Stayed Close to Home, While Females Wandered About
io9:
Does this 150,000 year old skull show the first case of human-on-human violence?
Daily Mail:
Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written by mysterious sect
Gizmodo:
Here's What Leonardo da Vinci's To-Do List Looked Like in 1490
Discovery News:
Who REALLY Discovered the Expanding Universe?
io9:
Einstein's brain is now on display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia
Dvice:
Walking through a doorway triggers memory loss, and there's nothing you can do about it
Daily Mail:
For sale: Bond villain lair, 100million-plus (shark tanks and henchmen not included)
Gizmodo:
Take a Ride in NASA's Astrovan
io9:
10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst Beverage Ever Invented
Dvice:
54 trippy long exposure photos that'll mesmerize you
io9:
The Mars rover Spirit's entire five-year mission, in less than three minutes
Universe Today:
Video: Walking on the Moon is Hard
Discover Magazine:
Where Yeager Went Speeding, Aliens (Allegedly) Went Missing, and Test Pilots Went Drinking
io9:
A Brilliant List of Science Books for People Who Want Their Minds Blown
Dvice:
You know you need help: 12 groovy gifts for your geeky girl
io9:
Gift Ideas For 10 Major Species Of Science Fiction Fan
Gizmag:
The Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Geneve - the world's finest watches recognized
io9:
20 Ridiculously Nifty Zombie Safe House Designs
November 23, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
It's alive! Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe phones home
Space Daily:
Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails
Space.com:
Could NASA's New Mars Rover Actually Find Martian Life?
Universe Today:
Science Rich Gale Crater and NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover in Glorious 3-D – Touchdown in a Habitable Zone
Space.com:
Inside Look: The Construction of NASA's Next Mars Rover
Space.com:
Mars Mission May Be Curtain Call for Plutonium-Powered Spacecraft
Space.com:
Nuclear Generators Power NASA Deep Space Probes (Infographic)
Universe Today:
Could Electrical Sprites Hold the Key to Extraterrestrial Life?
November 22, 2011
Space.com:
3 Space Station Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan
The Guardian:
Soyuz landing completes space station's first crew change in six months
The Guardian:
Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan - in pictures
Spaceflight Now:
Video Shows Rare View of Soyuz Capsule Returning to Earth
Spaceflight Now:
From Earth to Gale: Curiosity aims for Martian dry lake bed
Space Daily:
Reliable nuclear device to heat, power Mars Science Lab
Space Daily:
'Little chance' of saving stranded Mars probe: Russia
Universe Today:
Can Phobos-Grunt Still be Saved? Scientists Hold Out Hope as Deadlines Loom
Space.com:
Why Is It So Hard to Go to Mars?
Spaceflight Now:
Crippled space probe bound for second chance at Venus
Universe Today:
Black Friday's Secret Solar Eclipse
Daily Mail:
Search for alien life expands further out of the galaxy as new criteria proposed
Space Daily:
Civilizations beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society
Longview Daily News:
UFO theme encourages Kessler students to read at book fair
io9:
Meet the Raelians: Inside the World's Strangest — and Nicest — UFO Sex Clone Religion
November 21, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Delays Launch of Huge Mars Rover by 1 Day
Space Daily:
New Missions To Investigate How Mars Turned Hostile
Space Daily:
MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation Will Be A Data Rich Feed
Space.com:
The Biggest Mysteries of Mars
Space.com:
11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do
Space Daily:
Launch Team Focuses on Unique Needs of Curiosity
Spaceflight Now:
Veteran Landsat 5 satellite on the brink of failure
Universe Today:
Consolation Prize for Phobos-Grunt? Experts Consider Possibilities for Sending Spacecraft to Moon or Asteroid
Spaceflight Now:
Shenzhou capsule carried dummies, German payload
Space.com:
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos Relaunches Secretive Private Spaceship Website
Daily Mail:
Scientists reject startling claims that the speed of light has been broken for a second time
Space.com:
Alien Planet Count Tops 700 Distant Worlds
WEEKEND EDITION: November 19 thru 20, 2011
Daily Mail:
Large Hadron Collider may not have found the 'God particle'... but has just explained the existence of the universe
Nature:
Proof found for unifying quantum principle
io9:
Neutrinos do something even stranger than breaking the speed of light
New Scientist:
Aliens don't need a moon like ours
NASA Science:
Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere
Space.com:
Astronomer Sleuth Solves Mystery of Big Cosmos Discovery
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Automobile Safety Tips
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Single-Wheeled Vehicles Trundle Through The Decades
Innovation News:
Where Is My Holodeck?
Gizmag:
Miniature robot rides bicycle like a pro
IEEE Spectrum:
This Is What DARPA's Robot Ostrich Will Look Like
Wired:
Spider-Bot Battles Giant Robo-Snake as Pentagon Drools
Dvice:
Pod flight simulator offers realistic training at home
Daily Mail:
Want to join the jet set? Water-powered jetpack propels fliers up to 30ft into the air... but it still costs £150 a go
IEEE Spectrum:
Video: International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition Highlights
Innovation News:
World's Lightest Solid Takes Inspiration From Eiffel Tower
Science Magazine:
Leonardo's Formula Explains Why Trees Don't Splinter
Sciene Magazine:
Earth's 'Time Capsules' May Be Flawed
Nature:
Dark days of the Triassic: Lost world
Science Magazine:
Eruptions Swept Life From Land and Sea
Daily Mails:
Double whammy: Dinosaurs wiped out by one-two death punch delivered by colossal volcanic eruptions AND meteorite impacts
io9:
Dinosaurs moved fast because of their giant, powerful butts
Live Science:
15 Infant Dinosaurs Discovered Crowded in Nest
Futurity:
Whiskers' key role in reptile-mammal split
io9:
How physicists revealed the unexpected color of a 47-million-year-old moth
Live Science:
Newly Discovered 'Alien' Sea Worms Ride the Current
Science Magazine:
Video: Catapulting Frogs
Nature:
The mystery of the magnetic cows
Popular Science:
Gallery: When the Best Tool Is an Animal
Daily Mail:
Smile from 2m years ago: Revealed, the face of the 'missing link' between ape and man
Daily Mail:
Old news: In world first, 1.9million-year-old skeletons 'may still have skin on them'
Daily Mail:
Did Neanderthal man die out because he was too smart for his own good?
Gizmag:
Hublot painstakingly recreates a mysterious, 2,100-year-old clockwork relic - but why?
The Guardian:
Bronze age relics found on Dartmoor
Daily Mail:
Indiana Jones missed the REAL Mayan skull - used in a game of 'squash' where the losers would become human sacrifices
io9:
What was a bronze buckle from East Asia doing in 11th century Alaska?
io9:
Ten (Pseudo) Scientific Theories About the Mona Lisa's Smile
Live Science:
Life's Extremes: Left- vs. Right-Handed
Gizmodo:
Sunken Pedestrian Bridge Parts The Waters Without a Miracle
Gizmodo:
Tiny Transforming Manhattan Apartment Would Make Optimus Prime Proud
io9:
Dropping 1000 feet inside a giant bullet = the most bad-ass amusement park ride that never was
Universe Today:
The Holidays Are Coming! A Beginner's Guide to Telescopes
Dvice:
25 nerdy watches that tech geeks will love
Dvice:
10 retro tech gifts for old school geeks
Wired:
Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes
Gizmodo:
Check If Your House Will Be Vaporized in a Nuclear War
November 18, 2011
Daily Mail:
U.S. Army tests hypersonic weapon that travels five times the speed of sound... and can hit ANY target on earth in 30mins
Spaceflight Now:
Nuclear power generator hooked up to Mars rover
Space Daily:
Shenzhou for Dummies
KQED:
Dog Eats Moon: Total Lunar Eclipse
Popular Science:
How to Mine an Asteroid
New Scientist:
Astrophile: Supercritical water world does somersaults
Daily Mail:
Second set of scientists find that particles can travel faster than light - but they still don't understand how
New Scientist:
New results show neutrinos still faster than light
November 17, 2011
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times:
UFO expert speaks about nuclear sites
Wired:
Spy Sat Calibrators? King-Sized Jokes? China's Colossal Structures Confound
Space Daily:
China's spacecraft comes back to Earth
Spaceflight Now:
Mobile launch platform begins two weeks of testing
Space Daily:
Yinghuo Was Worth It
io9:
A mind-boggling infographic of all the missions from Earth to Mars, and where they wound up
Universe Today:
Venerable Voyager 2 Spacecraft Gets a Tune-up 14 billion Kilometers From Earth
KOLD-TV:
Solar activity to rip off part of Venus' atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Lake of slush hidden under floating ice cap on Jupiter's moon Europa 'could harbour life'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Pluto's Hidden Ocean
Innovation News:
'Sky Worm' Drone Readies for US Military Flight Tests
November 16, 2011
The Independent:
A Flying Saucer for your front room
New Scientist:
Superconductor flying saucer stunts
Space.com:
Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets, Expert Says
Gizmodo:
Somebody Ordered Tons of Satellite Photographs of China's Mysterious Structures
Nature:
China forges ahead in space
Space.com:
Chinese Docking Spacecraft Readies for Return to Earth Thursday
Space.com:
New Crew Arrives at Space Station on Russian Spaceship
Universe Today:
Dramatic Soyuz Docking Averts Potential Station Abandonment
Universe Today:
Phobos-Grunt's Mysterious Thruster Activation: A Function of Safe Mode or Just Good Luck?
Nature:
Russia gets the red planet blues
Daily Mail:
Mars has winds 'strong enough to shift sand dunes'
Wired:
Huge Lake Could Increase Chance of Life on Jupiter Moon
New Scientist:
Strange domes on Europa formed on thin ice
Space.com:
Why the Milky Way May Be Facing a Midlife Crisis
Popular Science:
Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever
Popular Science:
3-D Projection Tech Makes Images Hover in Mid-Air, No Screen Necessary
Belleville News Democrat:
Answer Man: What if asteroid had struck the moon?
New York Magazine:
Flying Saucer Cults and the American Sprawl: How Preston Miller Made God's Land for $30,000
io9:
AMC readies new UFO series Thunderstruck — prepare for your overly dramatic overlords!
November 15, 2011
Space.com:
Russia Still Trying to Contact Stranded Mars Moon Probe
Spaceflight Now:
December deadline for stranded Russian Mars probe
Discovery News:
Russia Mars Probe May Fall to Earth in January
Space.com:
Cosmic Fail! Getting into Space Is Still Really, Really Hard
Universe Today:
China completes 2nd Docking to Space Lab and sets Path to Manned flights in 2012
Universe Today:
Happy Birthday, Sir William Herschel!
November 14, 2011
News 24:
Alien signal still a mystery - expert
Boston Globe:
Confessions of a crop circle chaser in England
Daily Mail:
Russia's Mars dream ends, and now a toxic nightmare begins as its crippled fuel-filled probe heads back down to earth
Space Daily:
Contact with Russian Mars probe 'unlikely' - expert
Space Daily:
Russia Mars probe may fall to Earth in January: official
Discovery News:
Toxic Russian Mars Probe Heads Back to Earth
The Register:
Dud Mars probe's explosion will spare Earth's cities
Space.com:
New Space Station Crew Launches in Spectacular Snowy Display
Spaceflight Now:
Shenzhou spaceship due for second docking Monday
Space.com:
China Makes Second Successful Space Docking
Space.com:
Most Popular Skywatching Misconceptions Explained
Universe Today:
Asteroid Lutetia… A Piece Of Earth?
National Geographic:
Pictures: Five Future Techs for Passenger Air Travel
Gizmodo:
Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert? (Updated)
WEEKEND EDITION: November 12 thru 13, 2011
Science Magazine:
Fundamental Constant May Depend on Where in the Universe You Are
Discovery News:
'Anyons' Could Blur the Boson-Fermion Gap
Daily Mail:
Star born AFTER rise of mankind making its mark with massive hourglass nebula
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Methane Habitable Zone
Universe Today:
Every Way Devised to Deflect an Asteroid
Nature:
Time is running out for the leap second
Space Daily:
Is that a robot in your suitcase?
Gizmag:
Robotic avatar transmits real-time sensations of remote environment
Popular Science:
Video: A Steerable Remote 'Telexistence' Robot that Transmits Sight, Sound, and Touch to the Operator
Dvice:
Maskbot might be the prettiest robot you've ever seen
Space.com:
Galileo's Discoveries Honored Through Exclusive Timepieces
Popular Science:
Gallery: The Greatest Data Thefts In History
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Power of Data
Gizmodo:
Philco Mystery Control: The World's First Wireless Remote
Daily Mail:
From rubber band to bubble wrap: Exhibition celebrates simple inventions that have transformed our lives
Gizmag:
Six-foot-tall Robot Boxing Machines are a real steal at $17,000
Popular Science:
Sleek Urban Hive Lets You Keep Bees in the Comfort of Your Apartment
Live Science:
First Long-Necked Dinosaur Fossil Found In Antarctica
Daily Mail:
Setting hearts aflutter: The bird-like dinosaur that acted like a Vegas showgirl by wiggling tail feathers to attract mates
Daily Mail:
Silence of the enantiornithines: Fossils show flood wiped out colony of dinosaur-era birds
Live Science:
Giant 'Shieldcroc' Once Stalked Moroccan Rivers
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Millipede of the Seas
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: A 44-Million-Year-Old Hitchhiker
Daily Mail:
Now you see me... species of octopus uses duel camouflage system to baffle all predators
Science Magazine:
Why Are There So Many Colors of Poisonous Frogs?
Wired:
The Startling Science of a Starling Murmuration
Live Science:
Human Ancestor 'Family' May Not Have Been Related
Daily Mail:
Scientists confirm early humans were from Africa but their route out was via Arabia not Egypt
Daily Mail:
Well spotted! DNA evidence proves ancient artists were painting REAL 'leopard' horses... not just daubing abstract art
Live Science:
Castles of 'Lost Cities' Revealed in Libyan Desert
Innovation News:
Where Is My Woolly Mammoth?
Live Science:
Autistic brains are heavy with extra neurons
Dvice:
6 wild car designs inspired by movies that don't exist
New Scientist:
Planetary probe hall of fame
io9:
This is the most mind-bendingly awesome piece of art you'll see today
November 11, 2011
Discovery News:
Time Running Short for Stranded Mars Probe
Space Daily:
Chance of Russia Mars probe rescue 'very small': report
Space Daily:
NASA Ready for November Launch of Car-Size Mars Rover
Cosmos:
NASA readies Mars 'dream machine' launch
Discovery News:
Pristine Big Bang Gas Found
Space.com:
Rare Meteorite Found by Missouri Farmer Worth a Heavenly Price
November 10, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Russia trying to salvage Phobos-Grunt mission
Universe Today:
Russians Race against Time to Save Ambitious Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe from Earthly Demise
Space.com:
Failure Common Among Mars Missions (Timeline)
Space.com:
Inside Russia's Mars Moon Sampling Mission: Infographic
Spaceflight Now:
Long March rocket orbits Earth observing satellite
Daily Mail:
Nasa announce 2014 test flight of its Orion deep space capsule
Space.com:
High-Tech 'Spaceport America' Readies for Space Tourists
Space.com:
Mystery of Moon's Lost Magnetism Solved?
Discovery News:
Pluto May Live in a Rough Neighborhood
io9:
The weirdest moons in the solar system, and what it would look like to stand on them
Popular Science:
New Super-Black Material Absorbs 99 Percent of All Light That Dares to Strike It
November 9, 2011
Space.com:
Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 Zips by Earth in Rare Close Flyby
Daily Mail:
YU55... the latest movie star: Nasa releases short film of 'near miss' asteroid as it passed by Earth within moon's orbit
Universe Today:
Images, Video from Around the World of Asteroid 2005 YU55?s Close Pass
The Guardian:
Russian Mars probe stuck in Earth's orbit after engines fail to fire
Daily Mail:
Russia races to save its mission to Mars after engine glitch leaves probe dead in space
Spaceflight Now:
Russian Mars mission halted by glitch in low Earth orbit
Space.com:
NASA's Biggest Mars Rover Yet to Launch This Month
Popular Science:
SpaceX Dragon Capsule Could Go Drill For Ice on Mars
Space.com:
The Best (And Worst) Mars Landings in History
The Guardian:
Celebrating 50 years of human-powered flight
Daily Mail:
Lost in space: Researchers say aliens may be in our solar system (we're just not looking hard enough to see them)
November 8, 2011
Space.com:
City-Block-Size Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Buzz by Earth Today
Space.com:
Photos: Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 Flies Close By Earth in Nov. 2011
Space.com:
Russia Launching Probe to Sample Mars' Moon Phobos Today
New Scientist:
Tough astronaut bugs to blast off for Martian moon
Space.com:
US Military Wants to Launch Satellites from Airplanes
Dvice:
Watch the F-35B do things that airplanes shouldn't be able to do
Space Daily:
Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down
November 7, 2011
Universe Today:
No Alien Visits or UFO Coverups, White House Says
Space Daily:
Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set
Discovery News:
Monstrous Sunspot Rotates Toward Earth: Big Pic
Daily Mail:
Giant asteroid is about to pass between the Earth and the moon - our closest shave for 35 years
Discovery News:
Airships Offer Alternative Stairway to Space
Space Daily:
Scientists reveal jealousies on 'mission to Mars'
Space Daily:
NASA-sponsored study describes how space flight impacts astronauts' eyes and vision
Space Daily:
China has Australia space tracking station: report
Space.com:
New Space Station Camera Shows What Night Views of Earth Really Look Like
Universe Today:
Awesome Action Animation Depicts Russia's Bold Robot Retriever to Mars moon Phobos
Scientific American:
Life's Journey: 5 Tiny Organisms Hitch a Ride on Mission to a Martian Moon [Slide Show]
Space.com:
China Opens 'Space' Post Office on Docked Spacecraft
Space Daily:
China's space industry to see accelerated expansion over next 10 years
Dvice:
Do the moonwalk for real in NASA's low gravity simulator
Wired:
Refueling Gear Makes Navy's Next Drone Even Deadlier
Space.com:
3 New Heavy Elements Named: Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium
Daily Mail:
Quantum physics to the rescue after the kilogram develops a weight problem
Space.com:
Deflecting Killer Asteroids Away From Earth: How We Could Do It
Space.com:
Why Asteroids Make Lousy Space Weapons
Live Science:
Danger! Falling Rocks: Meteorites and Asteroids (Infographic)
New Scientist:
Most common stars are more life-friendly than thought
WEEKEND EDITION: November 5 thru 6, 2011
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Cold Chemistry of Creation
Popular Science:
The Unsplittable Bit
Discovery News:
Andromeda Is Coming Right At Us! Or Is It?
Daily Mail:
Scientists plan 1.5bn laser strong enough 'to tear the fabric of space'
Daily Mail:
Found - the missing arm of the Milky Way (but it's not a great location for life)
Universe Today:
The Asteroid That Fell To Earth: Meteorites from 2008 TC3 Still Giving Up Their Secrets
IEEE Spectrum:
HyQ Quadruped Robot From Italy Can Trot, Kick
Gizmag:
HyQ - robotic Lipizzaner does more than just prance
IEEE Spectrum:
Stunning Video of PETMAN Humanoid Robot From Boston Dynamics
Daily Mail:
Gecko-like robot that can climb up walls without adhesive developed by scientists
Innovation News:
Creepy Robot Spider Crawls Out of 3-D Printer
IEEE Spectrum:
Giant Robotic Jumping Spider. Giant Robotic Jumping Spider!
Gizmag:
Levitating lamp meets the future halfway
Innovation News:
Universal Translators Creep Closer in Crowded World
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Telephone
Space Daily:
Boeing Opens Cyber Engagement Center in Maryland
Daily Mail:
The latest holiday hotspot? Under-sea volcano eruptions could lead to the creation of a new Canary Island
Live Science:
Tiny Ancient Swimmers Had Motion Detectors for Eyes
Daily Mail:
Meet the REAL 'sabre-toothed squirrel' who lived among the dinosaurs
Live Science:
Shake, Shake, Shake: Dinosaur Flirting Technique Revealed
Astrobiology Magazine:
Worms Crawled In, Worms Crawled Out After Dinosaurs Died Off
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cretaceous Climate Tied to Ocean Circulation
Science Magazine:
What Killed Ice Age Beasts?
Live Science:
Tracking of Mysterious 'Unicorns of the Sea' Begins
Live Science:
Ancient Saber-Toothed Cat Drooled Like a St. Bernard
Live Science:
Mammoth Mystery: What Killed Off the Woolly Beast?
Daily Mail:
Chimps may have the ability to understand language too - humans just get more practice, say researchers
Science Magazine:
Wrens' Brains Are Wired for Duets
Live Science:
Asian Ancestors Had Sex with Mysterious Human Cousins
Science Magazine:
Modern Humans' First European Tour
Daily Mail:
Sunstone satnav: How Vikings used mysterious crystal to guide them to America
Gizmag:
Barn find quadrant identified as one of Britain's earliest scientific instruments
Science Magazine:
Venetian Acoustics Rediscovered
Live Science:
Butterfly Scales and Beard Hair: Antique Slides Reveal Obsession with Science
Gizmodo:
The Johnsville G Machine Sucked Astronauts' Teeth Out the Back of Their Heads
Gizmag:
The deeply strange "1001 Nights" house by architects A-Cero
Gizmag:
Gallery: Flying saucer hotel lands in the forests of Sweden
Gizmodo:
How to Create a Fake Identity and Stay Anonymous Online
Gizmodo:
How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever
Scientific American:
Yesterday's Tomorrow: A Look at Space Stations That Never Were
Popular Science:
Timeline: The Advance of the Data Civilization
Popular Science:
The Ten Most Amazing Databases in the World
Popular Science:
The Visible Universe, Then and Now
November 4, 2011
Space.com:
6 Mock Mars Explorers Emerge from 17-Month Virtual Mission
BBC News:
How will real Mars mission differ from simulation?
Discovery News:
New Mars Rover Prepared For Thanksgiving Launch
Space.com:
NASA Chief Says US Could Cooperate with China in Space
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Discovers 'A Completely New Thing'
Scientific American:
Mapping Mars: Where Have All the Landers Gone? [Interactive]
Scientific American:
Timeline of Mars Exploration, from 1960 to 2011 [Interactive]
Daily Mail:
Out of this world! Vintage photographs of space program fetch astronomic sum at auction
Space.com:
New Model Predicts Fallout from Big Meteorite Strike
Wired:
Darpa's Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents
November 3, 2011
Universe Today:
China Technology Surges Forward with Spectacular First Docking in Space
Space Daily:
China completes nation's first space docking
Space.com:
China Succeeds in First Space Docking by 2 Spaceships
Spaceflight Now:
Successful docking catapults China into elite space club
Space.com:
Inside China's Space Rendezvous Success (Infographic)
Space Daily:
Rendezvous for Shenzhou
Spaceflight Now:
Space station welcomes Russian cargo ship arrival
Space.com:
New Robot Russian Cargo Ship Docks at Space Station
Space.com:
Ancient Mars Water May Have Flowed Underground
Universe Today:
Russia Considers Simulated Mars Mission on the Space Station
National Geographic:
Uranus Has a Bright New Spot, Picture Shows
Space.com:
FAQ: The Nov. 8 Flyby of Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 Explained
November 2, 2011
Halifax Courier:
Spooky Calderdale Hallowe'en special: Was policeman Alan Godfrey abducted by aliens after UFO sighting?
Space.com:
New Robot Russian Cargo Ship Docks at Space Station
Universe Today:
Mars Express Experiences Multiple 'Safe Mode' Events
Discovery News:
Russia Aims For Mars Moon
Gizmodo:
Europe's Newest Vacuum Tunnel Simulates Space with Cryogenic Walls
November 1, 2011
Discovery News:
Space Becoming a Satellite Battleground
Space.com:
China Launches First Space Docking Mission
Spaceflight Now:
Shenzhou spaceship begins historic orbital pursuit
Space Daily:
China mulls over sending female "taikonauts" into space
Space.com:
Shenzhou 8: Photos From China's 1st Space Docking Mission
Space Daily:
Heads "up" for Chinese approach to key space maneuver
Space Daily:
Aerospace officials confident in space docking despite degree of difficulty
Space Daily:
China mulls over sending female "taikonauts" into space
Space Daily:
China's first manual space docking hopefully 2012
Space Daily:
China to conduct another manned space mission by 2012
Space.com:
NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope Could Get Mission Extension
Space.com:
NASA's Rocket Legacy: 75 Years of Space Engine Tests
Space.com:
November 2011 Skywatching Events
Daily Mail:
Laws of physics 'are different' depending on where you are in the universe
October 31, 2011
Space.com:
China's 1st Space Docking Mission to Launch Today With German Experiment Aboard
Space Daily:
Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch
Space.com:
Boeing to Build Private Space Taxis in Old NASA Shuttle Hangar
Space.com:
Russia Launches 1st Space Station Cargo Ship Since August Rocket Crash
Space Daily:
The Arianespace launcher family comes together in French Guiana
Daily Mail:
How giant 'near-miss' asteroid could shed light on formation of Earth
Daily Mail:
Round 2: Einstein's light-speed limit put to the test once more as CERN repeats its neutrino experiment
Daily Mail:
Next generation drones can stay in air for FOUR days and may eventually conduct dog fights at 65,000ft
Gizmodo:
The Navy's Robot Jet Fighter Goes for Its First Cruise
WEEKEND EDITION: October 29 thru 30, 2011
Wired UK:
Hints of new physics crop up at LHC
Discovery News:
Project Icarus: Exploring Exoplanet Biosignatures
Astrobiology Magazine:
An Alien Code Close to Home: Seeking ET Beyond the Radio Silence
Popular Science:
Robotic Venus Flytraps Will Trap Bugs and Eat Them For Fuel
Daily Mail:
'Super skin' for robot limbs can feel - and survive the pressure of two elephants standing on it
Innovation News:
Touch and Tap: New Device Lets Users Use Anything as Touchscreen
Gizmag:
"Bionic" leg anticipates the wearer's moves
Dvice:
Thought-controlled arm and hand makes 'The Bionic Man' a reality
Popular Science:
Passive-Walking Robot Can Stroll Downhill Forever With No Power Source
Daily Mail:
Sony unveils the world's first HD 3D binoculars - with a 'Record' button
Daily Mail:
Work-from-home boss keeps office staff on their toes with robot version of himself
Daily Mail:
Life on Earth bubbled out of a volcano in Greenland 3.8 billion years ago, say scientists
Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence for the Oldest Oxygen-Breathing Life on Land
Science Magazine:
The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow? Maybe Not
Wired:
Mass Species Loss Stunts Evolution for Millions of Years
Science Magazine:
Sauropod Salad Bar
Daily Mail:
Fossil tooth proves for the first time that dinosaurs migrated - just like birds
Live Science:
Archaeopteryx regains status as primitive bird
Daily Mail:
Creatures of the very deep: Giant amoebas discovered 6.6 miles down in Pacific sea trench
Daily Mail:
Insects can be scared to death by the mere presence of a predator
Daily Mail:
'Civilised' apes store knowledge and pass it down between generations - just like humans
Daily Mail:
How the Komodo Dragon can kill a buffalo... with a bite less powerful than a pussycat
Live Science:
Camera Traps Catch Arctic Predators in the Act
Cosmos:
Killer whales' epic journey to shed skin
Daily Mail:
13,800 year old spear that killed a mastodon proves humans were in North America one millennium earlier than thought
Daily Mail:
The boy from 5,500 BC: Researchers use forensics to rebuild face of Stone Age teenager
Daily Mail:
Going against the grain: Food traces on ancient pots reveal our ancestors were partial to a fish supper over meat
Science Magazine:
Mummy Has Oldest Case of Prostate Cancer in Ancient Egypt
Daily Mail:
Together for eternity: The skeletons of Roman lovers buried together holding hands
Daily Mail:
Divers find 13th century wreck from Kublai Khan's Mongol invasion fleet that was destroyed by 'divine' typhoon
Wired UK:
Newton's first paper among Royal Society gems now online and free
Daily Mail:
How translation software helped crack 'unbreakable' code in 1866 secret society manuscript
Daily Mail:
Treasure hunters on verge of finding Sir Francis Drake's watery grave after locating two ships off Panama coast
Daily Mail:
Obsessed mathematicians spend a year calculating the ten trillionth digit of Pi (it's 5 by the way)
Daily Mail:
Pining for a forest retreat? The breathtaking tree houses that run rings around homes back on solid ground
Wired:
The Evolution of the Spacesuit
Space.com:
'Spaceman' Comic Stars Astronaut Genetically Engineered for Mars Life
Gizmodo:
A Giant Spinning Human Head Water Fountain Is Oddly Mesmerizing
Gizmodo:
How Alaskan Mining Led To the Invention of the Electric Razor
Dvice:
8 groundbreaking 'first' gadgets that are now dead and forgotten
Daily Mail:
The dark side in a whole new light: Evil Star Wars Stormtrooper photographed in tender scenes with young son
Gizmodo:
The World's Largest Pumpkin Carving Is Also the Most Impressive
Live Science:
13 Halloween Superstitions and Traditions Explained
Gizmodo:
Six Tools to Carry Out a Successfully Spooky Ghost Hunt
Gizmodo:
What Number Human Being Were You on Planet Earth?
October 28, 2011
Space.com:
Hackers Interfered With 2 US Government Satellites
Space Daily:
China suspect in US satellite interference: report
Universe Today:
First Progress Launch Since Accident Looms Large for Space Station Program
Space Daily:
UK space surveillance system takes birthday snap of only satellite ever launched by a UK rocket
Space Daily:
Opportunity Continues to Drive North
Daily Mail:
Battered asteroid Lutetia revealed as ancient baby planet that never fully formed
Space Daily:
Rosetta reveals the science and mystery of Asteroid Lutetia
Space.com:
Asteroid Lutetia May Have Heart of Hot Melted Metal
New Scientist:
Most pristine known asteroid is denser than granite
Discovery News:
Asteroid Fails to Make It Big
Discovery News:
Unveiling Asteroid Lutetia's Secrets: Photos
Daily Mail:
Huge 'waterworld' has boiling oceans hundreds of times as deep as Earth's
Popular Science:
Ground-Based Laser Cannon to Turn Space Debris into Self-Powered Flaming De-Orbiting Rockets
Space Daily:
Major moments of China's rocket launches
October 27, 2011
Space.com:
Huge Asteroid to Creep Near Earth on Nov. 8
Universe Today:
Virgin Galactic Taps Test Flight Veteran As Pilot
New Scientist:
Space pilot: 'You miss the shots you don't take'
Daily Mail:
Up, up, up, up and away: Twin balloon airship reaches space
Space.com:
Hurricane Rina Forces NASA to Abort Undersea 'Asteroid' Mission
Spaceflight Now:
Launch rate set to skyrocket at French Guiana spaceport
Space.com:
China to Launch Spacecraft On First Docking Test Flight in November
Discovery News:
Mars Feels Sun's Wrath
NASA News:
Solar Cycle Primer
Space.com:
Dwarf Planet Eris is 'Almost Perfect' Pluto Twin
Penn State Live:
Three new planets and a mystery discovered outside our solar system
Space.com:
Discovery: Cosmic Dust Contains Organic Matter from Stars
Universe Today:
Aerojet: Small Space Firm Has Big Space History
The Wrap:
Mayan Filmmaker Offers Photo as Proof of Aliens, Says Hawking Agrees (Exclusive)
October 26, 2011
Space.com:
NASA's Underwater 'Asteroid' Mission Floats Past Midway Point
NASA News:
Stories of Missions Past: Early Explorers
Popular Science:
Gallery: Last Night's Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere
Futurity:
Mineral on Mars needs water to form
Popular Science:
Video: Flying Sphere-Shaped Drone Wows Crowds in Tokyo
October 25, 2011
Discovery News:
Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts
Wired:
Oct. 25, 1671: Cassini Spots a Two-Toned Saturnian Moon
Universe Today:
Stunning New Cassini Image: A Quartet of Moons
Universe Today:
ROSAT's Crash Site Determined
Space.com:
2,000-Year-Old Supernova Mystery Solved By NASA Telescopes
Space Daily:
Living on Tiangong
Space.com:
Chinese Moon Probe Tackling New Deep Space Mission
Discovery News:
Genetically Altered Astronaut Poo? NASA Wants to Know
Daily Mail:
Planes travelling five times speed of sound could carry passengers by end of century
Cosmos:
Jet packs rule, say deep-sea astronauts
Space.com:
Planet Venus Returns to the Evening Sky This Week
Daily Mail:
The real-life Blob: Is mysterious translucent jelly found in Cumbrian Fells from outer space?
October 24, 2011
Space.com:
Defunct German Satellite Hits Earth in Fiery Death Dive
Daily Mail:
Satellite crash lands in Asia after returning at 280mph... but experts STILL can't find it
Monsters and Critics:
Russian scientists: Water vapour present over more than half of Mars
Space Daily:
Opportunity Past 21 Miles of Driving! Will Spend Winter at Cape York
Space Daily:
ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028
Space.com:
NASA's Future Depends on Commercial Space Success, Deputy Chief Says
Space Daily:
Thousands of dreams to fly on Shenzhou 8
Universe Today:
Curiosity Buttoned Up for Martian Voyage in Search of Life's Ingredients
Inventorspot:
China's First Mars Mission Prepares to Explore the Red Planet
Discovery News:
Titan's Hazy History and the Potential for Life
Daily Mail:
How distant dwarf planet Snow White went from a water world to a frozen 'sleep'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Photo of a Gas Giant Planet as Cool as Earth
Gizmag:
Manned version of X-37 space plane in the works?
Wired:
Last Nuclear 'Monster Weapon' Gets Dismantled
Science Magazine:
143 New Patents That Won't See the Light of Day
WEEKEND EDITION: October 22 thru 23, 2011
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope -- Flat Universe
Space.com:
The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps
Space.com:
Images: Peering Back to the Big Bang and Early Universe
Space.com:
The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic)
Universe Today:
Guest Post by Author Peter Shaver: Cosmic Time Scales
Universe Today:
Special Relativity May Answer Faster-than-Light Neutrino Mystery
Astrobiology Today:
Astrophysics and Extinctions
New Scientist:
Astrophile: The rebel star that broke the medieval sky
IEEE Sepctrum:
How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Popular Science:
New Gear: The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
Innovation News:
Robots Train in Swarms for Dangerous, Dirty Jobs
IEEE Sepctrum:
Swiss Climbing Robot Hot Glues Itself To Your Walls
IEEE Sepctrum:
Wiggly Robotic Cat Ears: Sure, Why Not
Daily Mail:
Meet the robot who plays piano faster than any human - mind you, he does have 19 fingers
Dvice:
China's humanoid robots play ping-pong with ruthless efficiency
Daily Mail:
Robot made from Lego beats human record for Rubik's cube
Gizmag:
Tiny twisting muscles developed for propelling nanobots
Space Daily:
Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch
Dvice:
Prototype heavy lifter has two giant arms that mimic your moves
Cosmos:
Robot vision lags behind human sight
Popular Science:
Foambot Creates Itself Out of Sprayable Foam, Becoming Whatever Robot You Need
Daily Mail:
Tiny winged robot reveals tree-dwelling animals may have been the first to fly
Science Magazine:
Winged Robots Hint at the Origins of Flight
Popular Science:
Structural Self-Replication Based on DNA Could Create New Materials
Cosmos:
Did volcanoes cause the Great Oxidation Event?
Live Science:
Ancient Mud Volcanoes Perfect for Early Life, Rock Study Suggests
Astrobiology Magazine:
How Life Survived Snowball Earth
Astrobiology Magazine:
In Search of Virus Fossils
Gizmodo:
This Boning Dinosaur Skeleton Exhibit Is Proof that American Museums Are Too Prudish
Cosomos:
Cycads are not 'dinosaur plants' after all
Daily Mail:
No chance: Killer whales figure out how to work together to create a deadly wave that kills three out of four seals they target
Live Science:
Virgin Birth Discovered in Pit Vipers
Daily Mail:
Revealed: How pandas gave up eating meat and switched to 'indigestible' bamboo
Cosmos:
New measures to save world's rarest wolf
Cosmos:
Ochre find reveals ancient knowledge of chemistry
Daily Mail:
Egyptian 'vanity set' from the time of Tutankhamun goes on sale - but the hair pins and make-up could have been for a man
Daily Mail:
Eureka! 1,000-year-old text by Greek maths genius Archimedes goes on display
Daily Mail:
Found, the Viking war lord buried in his boat: 1,000-year-old tomb of Norse invader and weapons of war
Live Science:
Genetic Code of World's Oldest Person May Reveal Recipe for Long Life
Live Science:
How to Spot Psychopaths: Speech Patterns Give Them Away
Wired:
Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda
Live Science:
Paleo CSI: Early Hunters Left Mastodon Murder Weapon Behind
Science Magazine:
Computers Piece Together Scattered Medieval Scrolls
Daily Mail:
Ancient and unprecedented artwork showing a woman in childbirth is found by blind archaeologist on first ever dig
Daily Mail:
Is it a genuine Leonardo? Expert claims portrait sold for 14,000 is a priceless Da Vinci sliced from a 500-year-old book
Daily Mail:
Revealed, Henry VIII's lost pleasure palace: Amazing scale model recreates Nonsuch Palace more than 300 years after it was destroyed
Live Science:
Doomed Polar Explorer's Lost Photos Revealed
Science Magazine:
Attack on Radiation Geneticists Triggers Furor
Gizmodo:
How Tide Predicting Machines Saved D-Day
IEEE Spectrum:
Southern California Takes Flight
Space Daily:
The Spark Of A New Era Was A Blast For Rocket Science
Dvice:
The insane floating theatrical stages of Austria's Bregenz Festival
Dvice:
Finally, a $75,000 big wheel for grown-ups
Live Science:
FAQ: How Are Cloned Animals Made?
Dvice:
If Batman rode a recumbent trike, it would probably look something like "Silk"
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Classic Thrill Rides and Carnival Attractions
Dvice:
15 high tech Halloween costumes ideas that light up the night
Dvice:
In pictures: 10 abandoned tech facilities that are surely haunted
October 21, 2011
Space.com:
The Falling German Satellite ROSAT: Biggest Questions and Answers
Space Daily:
Soyuz, with first Galileo satellites, launched from Kourou
New Scientist:
Launch of Galileo satellites heralds new era
Space.com:
Astronauts Dive Deep on Undersea 'Asteroid' Mission
Universe Today:
SpaceX Completes Crucial Milestone Toward Launching Astronauts
Space.com:
DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites
Space Daily:
Lunar Probe to search for water on Moon
Space Daily:
Scientists develope new way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth
Universe Today:
Rare Mineral Points To Martian Water History
NASA News:
Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star
Universe Today:
Black Hole Secrets… Water Vapor Gives Clues To Star Formation
Space.com:
Comet-Seeded Alien Oceans Could Be Common
Daily Mail:
Incredible diagrams show how human technology has taken over the planet
Wired:
Real-Life Inception: Army Looks to ‘Counteract Nightmares' With Digital Dreams
October 20, 2011
Space.com:
What Are the Odds You'll Get Struck by the Falling ROSAT Satellite?
Space.com:
First Russian Rocket Launch from South America Delayed by Fueling Problem
Popular Science:
European Alternative to GPS Lifts Off Tomorrow From South America, Via Russian Rocket
Discovery News:
Comet Armageddon Detected in Nearby Star System
October 19, 2011
The Crescent News:
UFO expert Wertman gives presentation at Defiance Public Library
This Is Leicestershire:
UFO expert to take seat in European parliament
Wired UK:
Galileo, Europe's answer to GPS, is ready for launch
Space Daily:
Soyuz is put through its paces for Thursday's launch
Space Daily:
Huge stakes riding on maiden Soyuz launch from Kourou
Space.com:
NASA's Undersea 'Asteroid' Mission Delayed by Tropical Storm
Universe Today:
Phobos-Grunt and Yinghou-1 Arrive at Baikonur Launch Site to tight Mars Deadline
Space.com:
Touring SOFIA: NASA Opens Doors to Airborne Observatory
Daily Mail:
'It dropped like a rock and went straight down': Virgin's SpaceShipTwo hurtles out of control on most recent test flight
Universe Today:
Stage Set For SpaceX to Compete for Military Contracts
New Scientist:
Spaceport America conjures up spine-tingling future
Space.com:
Despite Slow Start, Space Tourism Biz Begins to Fire Up
Daily Mail:
German scientists say 3-tonne satellite will fall to Earth 'from Friday this week'
Space.com:
Russian Space Capsule Touches Down at NYC Museum
Discovery News:
Youngest Baby Exoplanet Discovered
Space.com:
European Telescope Discovers Rare Ancient Star Clusters
Popular Science:
SETI's Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens
Popular Science:
Searching for Life in All the Right Places
IEEE Spectrum:
SEOUL AIR SHOW: Sneak-peek of K-FX cockpit
October 18, 2011
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Makes Safe Landing After Tense Test Flight
Gizmag:
NASA charters suborbital research flights aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo
Space.com:
New Private Space Capsule Passes Wind Tunnel Tests
Gizmodo:
Branson opens world's first 'spaceport' in New Mexico
Space Daily:
Russia blames scientists for rocket crashes
Space.com:
Halley's Comet to Put on Meteor Show Next Week
Universe Today:
Dawn Discovers Surprise 2nd Giant South Pole Impact Basin at Strikingly Dichotomous Vesta
Universe Today:
Coming in 2012: Our Last Transit of Venus
Popular Science:
The Search for Alien Life Is On
Universe Today:
A Tale of Three Moons: Is There Life in the Outer Solar System?
Space.com:
Best-Ever Topographic Map of Earth Released
New Scientist:
Laser 'tractor beams' could reel in lost astronauts
Daily Mail:
No smoke or mirrors, just magnets: Video shows quantum levitation in action
October 17, 2011
Escanaba Daily Press:
Crop Circles?
Universe Today:
Was the "First Photographed UFO" a Comet?
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The massive comet that came within 5,000 miles of hitting the earth in 1883 - with enough force to destroy mankind
Space.com:
Dead German Satellite Will Fall to Earth This Week
Universe Today:
NASA to Test New Atomic Clock
Space.com:
Orbital, SpaceX Face Further Delays in Space Station Resupply Programs
Space.com:
Small Satellites Prompt Big Ideas for Next 25 Years
Space.com:
Secret No More: Spy Satellite Designer Reveals Life's Work
Space Daily:
While the US Stalls, Europe Moves On to Mars
Scientific American:
Did Saturn's Moon Iapetus Once Have Its Own Moon?
WEEKEND EDITION: October 15 thru 16, 2011
Scientific American:
Leading Light: What Would Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Mean for Physics?
Science Daily:
Time Reversal: A Simple Particle Could Reveal New Physics
New Scientist:
Force-fed black holes grew to master early universe
Daily Mail:
Sun's 11-year cycle means we're in for Arctic freeze this winter, say scientists
Astrobiology Today:
Mission to Mysterious Uranus
Gizmag:
Upgrades to extend B-52 Bomber's lifespan until 2044
Wired UK:
Cutting the cord: how the world's engineers built Wi-Fi
Popular Science:
IROS 2011 Expo Gallery
IEEE Spectrum:
New Switchblade Robot Design is Leaner, More Agile
IEEE Spectrum:
How JediBot Got Its Sword Fighting Skills
IEEE Spectrum:
Robot Masters Jenga, Next the World
IEEE Spectrum:
Video: Meka Robotics Talks Up its Anime-Style Expressive Head
Dvice:
Don't even try to outrun this undercover cop supercar
Dvice:
Weird RV comes from the future, is available in the present
Popular Science:
Awesome but Creepy Japanese Product of the Day: Realistic 3-D Face Replicas
Cosmos:
Ocean oxygen loss caused Earth's largest extinction
Daily Mail:
The greatest mass extinction of all time? It wasn't as bad as first thought?
Popular Science:
Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
Live Science:
High-Tech Tools Let Researchers Track Dinosaur Footprints
Live Science:
Fossil Fragment Reveals Giant, Toothy Pterosaurs
Daily Mail:
T-rex was bigger and scarier than we thought, say experts
Live Science:
Lair of Ancient 'Kraken' Sea Monster Discovered
Live Science:
African Rodents Invaded Brazil 41 Million Years Ago
Daily Mail:
The final frontier... British explorers seek out new life in a lost world hidden for up to a million years beneath the frozen Antarctic wastes
Live Science:
The Original Human Language Like Yoda Sounded
Science Magazine:
Prehistoric Painters Planned Ahead
Gizmodo:
Look Inside a 100,000-Year-Old Art Studio
Daily Mail:
Prehistoric dog found with MAMMOTH bone in its mouth - does it prove they were man's best friend even then?
Daily Mail:
London 'plague pits' yield secrets of how the Black Death evolved from harmless soil bug
Wired UK:
100 year old time capsule could reveal evolution of bacteria
Popular Science:
Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug
Live Science:
Piranhas' Bark as Bad as Their Bite
Live Science:
New Cubs Offer Hope for Tigers, But Cats Still Facing Extinction
Live Science:
7 Population Milestones for 7 Billion People
Gizmag:
California roll house morphs into its enviornment
Gizmag:
Levytator -- the curvy, energy-saving escalator
Gizmag:
U-Boat Worx makes its mini-submersibles available for private charter
Science Magazine:
Sex-Crazed Astrologer Was a Stellar Records Keeper
Live Science:
Why Rescue Missions from Antarctica Are So Hard
Gizmodo:
The Sordid History and Evolution of Handcuff Design
Dvice:
Stop motion video shows off a dream collection of 1980s toys
Dvice:
67 Halloween costume ideas for tech geeks
October 14, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Buys Flights on Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship
Spaceflight Now:
NASA review clears way for manned Soyuz flights
Space.com:
Let the Space Shuttle Rest in Peace, Experts Tell Congress
Discovery News:
The Mystery of Mars' Bizarre Plumbing
October 13, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Falling German satellite greater threat than UARS
Space.com:
Asteroid Near Earth Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
Universe Today:
Daring Russian Sample Return mission to Martian Moon Phobos aims for November Liftoff
Space.com:
Report: Iran Attempt to Launch Monkey Into Space Fails
Space.com:
Russian Rocket Failure Shouldn't Force Space Station Evacuation, NASA Tells Lawmakers
Space Daily:
Wet and Mild: Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past
Space Daily:
Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis
Space Daily:
New Mystery On Mars' Forgotten Plains
BBC News:
Asteroid Vesta rocked by mighty impacts
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Hazy History of Titan's Air
Dvice:
This Hubcap-Like Contraption Could Be The Future Of Space Travel (Or Not)
October 12, 2011
Space.com:
Falling German Satellite Poses 1-in-2,000 Risk of Striking Someone This Month
Space.com:
Private Spaceship Factory Opens for Business in Calif. Desert
Universe Today:
Former Space Shuttle Manager Mike Moses Joins Virgin Galactic
Dvice:
Could a bigger X-37B be the next space shuttle?
Space.com:
Rogue Failed Star Is One of Smallest Ever Seen
Space.com:
Distant Galaxies Provide Timeline for Universe's Early Days
Universe Today:
Why is Tonight's Full Moon the Smallest of the Year?
October 11, 2011
Daily Mail:
Around Saturn in 80 days? Nasa trials space balloon that could be sent to orbit the ringed planet's biggest moon
NASA News:
Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover
Astrobiology Magazine:
Secrets of Asteroid Minerva and its Moons
Daily Mail:
Stunning 3D view of 13-mile-high mountain on asteroid - surrounded by landslide debris
Popular Science:
Navy's Distinctly UFO-Like X-47B War Drone Makes First Flight in Cruise Mode
Gizmodo:
When Returning from the Moon, Don't Forget to Fill Out Your Customs Form
October 10, 2011
Daily Mail:
Scientists warn out-of-control three ton telescope is hurtling towards Earth
Spaceflight Now:
Air Force satellite's epic ascent should finish soon
Spaceflight Now:
European broadcasting satellite launched by China
Spaceflight Now:
Replacement for Soyuz rocket canned by Russia
Space.com:
Secretive US X-37B Space Plane Could Evolve to Carry Astronauts
Space Daily:
Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves
Space.com:
Triple Asteroid Crash Created Sudan Meteorites
Space.com:
A Day on Neptune Is Just 16 Hours Long, Study Reveals
Space.com:
Could Blasts from Cosmic Collisions Destroy Life on Earth?
Discovery News:
What's That Eerie 'Airglow' Astronauts See?
Live Science:
Tiny Drone Reveals Ancient Royal Burial Sites
Wired UK:
Amateur Qu8k rocket captures 121,000 foot ascent on video
WEEKEND EDITION: October 8 thru 9, 2011
Space.com:
7 Surprising Things About the Universe
Gizmag:
Largest-ever cosmological simulation to shed new light on dark matter
Scientific American:
What next for neutrinos?
Discovery News:
Where Do Alien Civilizations Hang Out?
Daily Mail:
'We could live inside a supermassive black hole eventually... but super-aliens may have already beaten us to it,' claims Russian cosmologist
Discovery News:
Extreme Space Weather: Photos
Science Blogs:
A Whole New World at the Edge of the Solar System
Daily Mail:
War horse: Latest frontline 'pack mule' robot Alphadog is the strong, silent type
Popular Science:
Bug-Like Robotic Drones Becoming More Bug-Like, With Bulging Eyes and Tiny, Sensing Hairs
IEEE Spectrum:
Japanese Researchers Developing Robotic Chameleon, Tongue First
Gizmodo:
This Climbing Robot Cockroach Gives Me More Heebie Jeebies Than a Real Cockroach
IEEE Spectrum:
PR2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich from Subway
Live Science:
Machine That Feels Could Usher in 'Jedi' Prosthetics
MIT Technology Review:
Giving Prosthetics a Sense of Touch
Popular Science:
A 3-D Printer That Uses the Sun to Create Glass Objects Out of Sand
Daily Mail:
'Invisibility cloak' created by scientists, but there's one hitch - so far, it works UNDERWATER
Wired:
Watch: 'Invisibility Cloak' Uses Mirages To Make Objects Vanish
Daily Mail:
The wonder stuff that could change the world: Graphene is so strong a sheet of it as thin as clingfilm could support an elephant
Gizmodo:
Video Timeline: People Talking With Computers
Wired:
Look: Giant Spy Blimp Dwarfs an 18-Wheeler
Daily Mail:
Revenge of the French! Clock is ticking on Greenwich Mean Time after scientists call for greater accuracy
American Geophysical Union:
Geologic timescale names
Daily Mail:
A peek into the chemical soup of life: Last universal common ancestor 'more sophisticated than we thought,' say biologists
Live Science:
Ancestor of All Living Things More Sophisticated than Thought
Astrobiology Magazine:
Reef Recovery After Mass Extinction
Wired:
Lost Worlds Survive in Living Fossils
Cosmos:
Lungfish gives insight into life on land
Live Science:
World's Largest Shark Sanctuary Opens
Wired:
Brainwave Delay Makes Rats Feel Teleported
Science Magazine:
Got War? Blame the Weather
Universe Today:
Inspiration and an Old Picture Full of Awesome: Robert Goddard and His Rocket
Gizmag:
Low-impact Hobbit home only cost US$4,650 to build
Gizmodo:
Old nuclear power plant transformed into a theme park and hotel
Discovery News:
Doomsdays That Never Happened
Popular Science:
Gallery: Nikon Small World Photography Contest
October 7, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Satellite trouble causes communications outage
Space Daily:
NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way
Spaceflight Now:
Station crew studies how space affects eyesight
Space Daily:
UT Scientist Searches for Moons Around Asteroids
Daily Mail:
Supernova that lit up the skies for a whole month 1,000 years ago still puzzling astronomers
Science Maazine:
Did Mercury and Uranus Have a Rough Youth After All?
Wired:
Friday Field Photo #157: Evidence of a 500 Million Year Old Storm
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Steve Jobs in the Pages of Popular Science, Over Three Decades
October 6, 2011
Popular Science:
Apple's New iPhone Assistant is a Voice-Activated DARPA Spinoff
Dvice:
List: Everything you can ask Siri on the iPhone 4S
Space.com:
Huge Mars Crater an 'Intriguing' Target for Next NASA Rover
Space.com:
Now Is the Time to See the Mysterious Zodiacal Light
Universe Today:
Titan's Technicolor Terrain
Space.com:
Sex in Space & Other Interstellar Travel Challenges Revealed
Discovery News:
The Interstellar Space Sex Fallacy
Space.com:
Tracing the Canals of Mars: An Astronomer's Obsession
October 5, 2011
Space.com:
How to Spot China's New Space Laboratory in Night Sky
Scientific American:
Planetary Pretender: Asteroid Vesta Has Planet-Like Features
Wired:
The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth
Space.com:
Comets Created Earth's Oceans, Study Concludes
Nature Magazine:
Comets take pole position as water bearers
Daily Mail:
The ski resort in space: Snow flurries on Saturn's moon would make for perfect piste, says scientist
Astrobiology Magazine:
An Unusual Multi-Planet System
Popular Science:
Chemist Once Accused of 'Quasi-Science' Wins Nobel For Quasicrystal Discovery
Universe Today:
Video: Nobel Prize Winner Explains The Expanding Universe
Space.com:
Say It Ain't So, Spock! Leonard Nimoy Retires from 'Star Trek' Conventions
October 4, 2011
Wired:
Oct. 4, 1957: Soviets Put Man-Made Moon in Orbit!
Space.com:
Giant Asteroid Vesta Has Mountain Taller Than Anything on Earth
Space.com:
Vesta Asteroid, Second Largest in the Asteroid Belt, Formation and Facts
Daily Mail:
Bigger Bang theory: Three U.S. physicists share Nobel Prize for work on how universe is expanding at ever-faster rate
Popular Science:
Dark Energy Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Space.com:
Explosive Studies of Universe's Expansion Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Discovery News:
2011 Physics Nobel: Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
Universe Today:
Accelerating Expansion of Universe Discovery Wins 2011 Noble Prize in Physics
Space.com:
Soyuz Rocket Launch Restores Russian Navigation System
ESA News:
Dark and bright: ESA chooses next two science missions
Space.com:
Secret Mission of Air Force's X-37B Robot Space Plane May Go Into Overtime
Space Daily:
Dawn's fourth anniversary
Space.com:
Moon's Shadow Makes Waves in Earth's Atmosphere
Discovery News:
Cassini Buzzes Cracked and Cratered Enceladus
Popular Science:
Physicists Say Speed-of-Light-Breaking Neutrinos Would've Lost Their Energy Along the Way
Space.com:
Astronomers Debate Where 1st Interstellar Starship Should Visit
Daily Mail:
Here be aliens? New signs point to a billion planets in our own galaxy where extra-terrestrials might be hiding
Daily Mail:
World's most complex telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universe
October 3, 2011
Daily Mail:
What, no parachute? Space X aims to create the first 'reusable rocket' - could it be the vehicle to make the return trip to Mars?
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX unveils flyback Falcon rocket reusability plan
Space.com:
SpaceX Unveils Plan for World's First Fully Reusable Rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 2 rocket could win new NASA launch assignments
Space.com:
China's Next Step in Space: Critical Docking Demo in November
NASA News:
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins New Vesta Mapping Orbit
NASA Science News:
The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater
WEEKEND EDITION: October 1 thru 2, 2011
Popular Science:
Scientist in a Strange Land
Cosmos:
Is the universe expanding asymmetrically?
Time Magazine:
Earthlike Planets May Be Less Common than We Think
Time Magazine:
Planetary Mystery: How in the World Did Mercury Form?
IEEE Spectrum:
When the Sun Attacks
ScienceNews:
Fertile frontiers
Popular Science:
Gallery: The Biggest Satellites That Have Fallen to Earth
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Mail Order DIY Kits
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: PopSci's Most Gigantic Portable Gadgets
Daily Mail:
Rolling off the 3D printing press... the world's first 'printed' car - and it actually works
IEEE Spectrum:
Asimo Can Copy Your Dance Moves
Gizmodo:
This Is the New Generation of the Creepiest, Most Awesome Quadruped Robot Ever
Gizmodo:
Google Maps Helicopter View Is Like a Sweet Magic Carpet Ride (in a Chopper)
Gizmag:
Researchers install world's highest webcam to provide a view of Everest
Gizmodo:
Scientists Can Now Extract, Record and Return Information To the Brain
Live Science:
Textbook Images of Ancient Flying Reptiles Are Wrong
Live Science:
Dead Sea Not So Dead, Divers Discover
Live Science:
Superfast Muscles Help Bats Make High-Pitched Buzz
Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'Denisovan' cavemen had sex with humans from Borneo to the Philippines
Daily Mail:
Scroll over this: Dead Sea Scrolls now online - and your mouse pointer instantly translates into English
Live Science:
'Magic Mushrooms' May Permanently Alter Personality
Wired:
How to Hatch a Dinosaur
September 30, 2011
Space.com:
Wetter Mars Atmosphere Shakes Up Old Climate Models
Space Daily:
Mars Express finds water supersaturation in the Martian atmosphere
Space.com:
Planet Mercury Full of Strange Surprises, NASA Spacecraft Reveals
Wired:
Mercury's Explosive Volcanic History Revealed
Cosmos:
Craters expose Mercury's volcanic past
Space.com:
Earth Surrounded by Fewer Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Than Thought, NASA Finds
Space.com:
China's First Space Lab Carrying Flags Flown on US, Russian Spacecraft
Space Daily:
Chief designer explains Chinese way of mastering space docking technology
Space Daily:
Secret new Russian missile fails in testing: reports
September 29, 2011
Space.com:
China Launches 1st Space Lab Module Into Orbit for Docking Tests
Space.com:
China's Tiangong 1 Space Lab: Questions and Answers
Space.com:
Photos: China Launches First Space Lab, Tiangong 1
Gizmag:
NASA to demonstrate largest-ever solar sail in space
Scientific American:
NASA Figures Show That Commercial Rocket Costs Less Than Half as Much as Government-Run Effort Would
Popular Science:
Kepler Analysis Projects One-Third of Sun-Like Stars Have an Earth-Like Planet Orbiting
Science Magazine:
Galaxy Clusters Validate Einstein's Theory
Popular Science:
Army Developing Drones That Can Recognize Your Face From a Distance
Popular Science:
BullDog: A Bigger, Scarier Version of BigDog Gets Closer to the Battlefield
Daily Mail:
Water wings: Lockheed Stratoliner concept is a hydrogen-powered jet that can fly anywhere on Earth without stopping
September 28, 2011
Reuters:
Mayan Documentary Will Show Evidence of Alien Contact, Says Mexico
Space.com:
China to Launch 1st Space Lab Module on Thursday
Space.com:
US and China: Space Race or Cosmic Cooperation?
Discovery News:
Cold-War Missile Launches Military Satellite
Space.com:
Japanese Spy Satellite in Orbit After Successful Launch
Space.com:
NASA Pinpoints Pacific Ocean Grave of Fallen UARS Satellite
Discovery News:
SpaceX to Build 'Grasshopper' Rocket
Popular Science:
The Sunspots That Kicked Off This Week's Solar Storm May be Just Warming Up
Space.com:
New Forecast: Sun's 'Superstorms' Could Doom Satellites
NASA News:
Venus Weather Not Boring After All, NASA/International Study Shows
Discover Magazine:
Mercury's hot and cold south pole
September 27, 2011
Dvice:
6 strange sightings from the CIA's declassified UFO files
National Geographic:
"Dark" Supermoon: New Moon Gets Closest to Earth
Space Daily:
China prepares to launch first space lab module this week
Universe Today:
China set to 'Leap Forward in Space' as Tiangong 1 Rolls to Launch Pad
Space Daily:
Russia to resume deep space explorations with Phobos expedition
Space Daily:
Sea Launch resumes operations after 2-year break
Space Daily:
NASA Partners Uncover New Hypothesis On Crater Debris
Discovery News:
Martian Life's Last Stand in the Trenches?
Discovery News:
Does Famous Exoplanet 'Fomalhaut b' Really Exist?
Wired:
Neutrinos and the Speed of Light - A Primer on the CERN Study
Live Science:
Why The Speed of Light Matters
Popular Science:
.Fermilab Will Double-Check CERN's Revolutionary Faster-Than-Light Claim
Dvice:
Tevatron closes Friday, big American science dies a little inside
Innovation News:
New Air Force Missile Could Disable Enemy Electronics
September 26, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
Large NASA science satellite likely fell into Pacific
Space.com:
Final Grave of Fallen NASA Satellite May Stay a Mystery
Space.com:
How Will the International Space Station Fall to Earth?
Science Magazine:
Space Storms to Pose Greater Risk to Flyers and Astronauts
Live Science:
Faster-Than-Light Discovery Raises Prospect of Time Travel
Live Science:
What Would It Be Like to Travel Faster than the Speed of Light?
Live Science:
Warped Physics: 10 Effects of Faster-Than-Light Discovery
Live Science:
Strange & Shining: Gallery of Mysterious Lights
Universe Today:
Opportunity spotted Exploring vast Endeavour Crater from Mars Orbit
WEEKEND EDITION: September 24 thru 25, 2011
Science Magazine:
Physicists Devise Perfect Magnetic Shield
Astrobiology Magazine:
Living in the Galactic Danger Zone
Discovery News:
Are Small Rocky Worlds Actually Naked Gas Giants?
Science Magazine:
Earth's Ultimate Destruction -- And Possible Reincarnation
Innovation News:
10 Incredible 3-D Printed Products
Popular Science:
Today in 3-D Printing: Musical Instruments and Instruments of War
Innovation News:
Gang Used 3-D Printer to Steal $400,000 from Bank Customers
Dvice:
Video: This is why you'll want a 3D printer for Christmas
Dvice:
6 affordable 3D printers that allow you to print your own toys
IEEE Spectrum:
Architects Using Robots to Build Beautiful Structures
Popular Science:
Enhancing Robots' Senses of Touch By Giving them Human-Like Fingerprints
Popular Science:
Agriculture Continues to Plow Into the Future, Now With Autonomous Robot Tractors
Popular Science:
Better planning makes robot movements more efficient and predictable
American Machinist:
The Individualization of Robots
Gizmodo:
Yes, BigDog Is Still the Creepiest, Most Awesome Robot of All Time
Gizmodo:
Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
Stanford Report:
First life may have arisen above serpentine rock, say Stanford researchers
Live Science:
'Switchblade' Claw Reveals How Dino Fought and Killed
Live Science:
Dino-Killing Cosmic Impact Wiped Out Ancient Birds, Too
Wired:
Debate Over Purpose of Bird-Egg Coloration Continues
Live Science:
Fight or Flight: How the Nose Knows What to Do
Live Science:
Jocks vs. Geeks Plays Out in the Wild Kingdom, Too
Popular Science:
New Species of Dolphin Discovered Off the Coast of Australia
Popular Science:
Scientists Successfully Induce Hibernation in Animals for the First Time
Daily Mail:
Fingered out: Gene that causes people to be born without fingerprints discovered
Live Science:
Lock of Aboriginal Man's Hair Unlocks Secrets of Human Migration
Cosmos:
Aboriginal genome rewrites human dispersal story
Live Science:
Now-Extinct Relative Had Sex with Humans Far and Wide
Daily Mail:
Revealed, Ireland's real-life zombie scare: Eighth century skeletons buried with stones in mouths
Live Science:
For Sale: Pieces of Polar Explorers' Dramatic Past
Dvice:
The world's oldest running car up for sale
Gizmodo:
Mongolian Nomads See a Picture of Themselves for the First Time in Their Lives
Gizmodo:
This Igloo Resort Lets You Watch the Northern Lights in Pure Luxury
Dvice:
Watch this stealthy Norwegian cruise missile punch through a ship
Dvice:
Animatronic door should scare the crap out of trick-or-treaters
Dvice:
14 beautifully unsettling space program pictures
September 23, 2011
UPDATE: Space.com:
Huge Tumbling Satellite Could Fall to Earth Over US Tonight or Saturday, NASA Says
Daily Mail:
So did Einstein get it (relatively) wrong? Scientists clock particles travelling faster than the speed of light
Discovery News:
Faster Than Light Particles Question Einstein's Theory
Science Magazine:
Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment
Cosmos:
It's still impossible: researchers doubt light-speed broken
Cosmos:
Tests needed for faster-than-light neutrino
Space.com:
Huge NASA Satellite Will Fall to Earth Today
Space.com:
US Safe from Falling NASA Satellite on Friday, Scientists Refine Predictions
Spaceflight Now:
Spotting UARS re-entry will require lots of luck
New Scientist:
Second big satellite set to resist re-entry burn-up
Discovery News:
Armstrong to NASA: You're Embarrassing
Discovery News:
New Space Woe: Blurry Vision
Space.com:
The Curious Case of Comet Elenin: A Weird Skywatching Tale
Nature:
Exoplanet's misstep raises doubts
Popular Science:
SASSA, the Military's New Satellite Self-Defense System, is Ready to Go to Space
Space.com:
Earth's Seasons Change With Equinox Today
September 22, 2011
Daily Mail:
Heads up! Doomed NASA satellite captured on video as experts predict it 'could land' any time from tomorrow - and the 'strike zone' covers most of the planet
Space.com:
Where On Earth Will NASA's Doomed Satellite Fall On Friday?
Space.com:
Falling NASA Satellite Could Spark Stunning Light Show
Gizmodo:
Track NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite As It Falls Back To Earth
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Place Your Bets on the Falling Satellite!
Space Daily:
China to launch moon-landing probe around 2013
Space Daily:
Mythbusting for Tiangong
Universe Today:
Rheasilvia – Super Mysterious South Pole Basin at Vesta is Named after Romulus and Remus Roman Mother
New Scientist:
New doubts about 'poster child' of exoplanets
September 21, 2011
Space Daily:
Astronauts reporting vision problems
Space.com:
Huge NASA Satellite Falling to Earth Is Largest in 30 Years
Popular Science:
NASA Will Award $1.6 Billion to Speed the Development of Commercial Space Taxis
Space Daily:
The US will conquer deep space with Russian engines
Space Daily:
China to launch space station's first module
The Scotsman:
Asteroid thought to have wiped out dinosaurs was 80m years 'too late'
Dvice:
Northrop concept looks like a space fighter, probably isn't
September 20, 2011
USA Today:
Study: Solar system ejected giant planet early on
Space.com:
NASA's Future on Space Station Hinges on Private Spaceships
Discovery News:
Spaceship Factory Open for Business
Space.com:
Astronauts Set to Become Aquanauts for Undersea 'Asteroid' Mission
Spaceflight Now:
Spy agency pulls back cloak on secret Cold War satellites
Space Daily:
Young Clays on Mars Could Have Been Habitable Regions
Cosmos:
Martian clay hints at life
Space.com:
Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Is Still a Mystery
September 19, 2011
Nashua Telegraph:
New Hampshire couple's claim of UFO sighting, alien abduction marks 50th anniversary
Houston Chronicle:
NH notes 50th anniversary of UFO abduction story
Space.com:
Declassified US Spy Satellites Reveal Rare Look at Secret Cold War Space Program
Space Daily:
NRO Maintains US Intel Satellite Edge
Space Daily:
US satellite may crash back to Earth Sept 23: NASA
Space.com:
Huge Defunct Satellite Falling to Earth Faster Than Expected, NASA Says
Discovery News:
Solar Activity Spells Doom for NASA Satellite
Space Daily:
Latest Tumbling Satellite Fails to Warrant Space Intercept
Discovery News:
Mystery Comms Blackout Blights Returning ISS Trio
Space.com:
NASA's $500 Million Launch Pad for Scrapped Rocket Could Find New Life
Universe Today:
SpaceX to Dock With ISS on Next Flight: NASA Maybe – Russia Nyet
Space.com:
NASA Rover Finds Rare Mars Rock With Clues of Ancient Water
Discovery News:
The Search for Apollo 10's 'Snoopy'
Discovery News:
Confirmed! Dawn is Orbiting Asteroid Vesta
Space.com:
New Video Reveals Giant Asteroid Vesta as Seen by Spacecraft
NASA News:
Cassini Presents Saturn Moon Quintet
The Guardian:
From the archive, 19 September 1955: Evidence of plant life on Mars?
WEEKEND EDITION: September 17 thru 18, 2011
Dvice:
5 time travel theories from science fiction that could still be possible
Dvice:
3 science-based approaches to time travel that aren't crazy
Daily Mail:
'God particle' goes missing: Higgs boson 'may not exist' say Hadron Collider scientists
Astrobiology Magazine:
Rocky Planets Could Have Been Born as Gas Giants
Cosmos:
Diamonds' deep origins unearthed
New Scientist:
Neutron star smash-ups may forge gold
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: A Crystal a Million Years in the Making
Innovation News:
Where's My Food Replicator?
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: PopSci Introduces Color TVs
Innovation News:
Inventions Ahead of Their Time: The Hair Dryer
IEEE News:
Practice Makes Perfect for Path-Following Quadrotors
IEEE News:
Quadrotors Can Now Play Catch, All-Robot Baseball Team Closer to Reality
Popular Science:
Robot Journalist Will Snag Pulitzer By 2016, Predicts Robot-Journalist Programmer
Daily Mail:
These are the droids you're looking for: Could 'Lingodroids' be the servants of the future?
BBC:
Supercomputer predicts revolution
Popular Science:
Supercomputer Reads the News to Successfully Forecast World Events
Discover Magazine:
One Giant Leap for Machine Kind
IEEE Spectrum:
Video: Robotics Projects from DFKI Bremen
Daily Mail:
The real Iron Man triathlon: robot to swim, cycle and run one of the world's toughest challenges
Dvice:
Tornado-proof home ducks underground to evade twisters
Gizmodo:
The Most Massive Whirlybird in the Western World
Wired:
Inside the Freaky World of Next-Gen Night Vision
Daily Mail:
'Gobsmackingly amazing': Dinosaur skeleton preserved with its own footprint in world first
Science Magazine:
'Dinofuzz' Found in Canadian Amber
Cosmos:
Amber fossils reveal feather evolution
Cosmos:
Ancient Feathered Friends: Images of Feathers in Amber
LiveScience:
Oldest Viruses Infected Insects 300 Million Years Ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ancient Predatory Fish that Prowled the Waters
Daily Mail:
Hair we go: Why we lost our locks so we could run faster to catch food
Cosmos:
Dingo origin predates Neolithic expansion
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Ice Age Giants
LiveScience:
Newly Discovered Flower Plants Its Own Seeds
Daily Mail:
Genetic secret behind virus that turns caterpillars into zombies discovered
Science Magazine:
How the Ear Distinguishes Sweet Sounds From Sour Notes
Daily Mail:
Why you just can't resist animals: Parts of the human brain hard-wired to respond to other creatures
Popular Science:
Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
Dvice:
Video of the Day: 3D rhombus optical illusions
Gizmodo:
Watch a Water Fountain Animate in Real Life
Gizmodo:
10 Hackers Who Made History
Dvice:
Britain wanted to build the world's largest aircraft carrier out of ice
Dvice:
Riding on a zeppelin, the next best thing to time travel
Discovery News:
How Futurama Gets Science Right (Sort of): Photos
September 16, 2011
Space.com:
Planet Like 'Star Wars' Tatooine Discovered Orbiting 2 Suns
Spaceflight Now:
Kepler spacecraft discovers planet that circles two suns
Scientific American:
My 2 Suns: Bounty of New Exoplanet Discoveries Includes a World Orbiting a Binary Star
Space.com:
Look Skywatcher! Twin Suns of Real-Life 'Tatooine' Planet Visible in Binoculars
Space.com:
Tatooine Finder: Q&A With Planet Hunter Laurance Doyle
Science Magazine:
Video: Two Suns Set on Alien World
Space.com:
10 Real Alien Worlds That Resemble 'Star Wars' Planets
Wired:
New Asteroid Close-Ups Show Giant Cliffs, Mountains and Craters
Spaceflight Now:
Three-man crew returns from half-year spaceflight
Universe Today:
Expedition 28 Soyuz Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
Space.com:
Soyuz Space Capsule Lands Safely With US-Russian Crew
Popular Science:
Gallery: The Soyuz Spacecraft Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
Space.com:
Next Space Station Crew Will Launch Nov. 14, NASA Says
Space Daily:
Virgin aims for first space launch within 12 months
Space.com:
US Space Spy Agency to Unveil Hush-Hush Satellites on Saturday
Dvice:
Star Wars in origami is more refreshing than the revised Blu-rays
September 15, 2011
Live Science:
Visible Only From Above, Mystifying 'Nazca Lines' Discovered in Mideast
Live Science:
Gallery: Aerial Photos Reveal Mysterious Stone Structures
Daily Mail:
Nasa thinks big again: Agency unveils the massive new rocket to take men to Mars
Space.com:
NASA Unveils New Giant Rocket for Deep Space Missions
Spaceflight Now:
NASA announces new rocket for deep space missions
Space.com:
NASA's New Mega Rocket Would Be Most Powerful Ever Built
Spaceflight Now:
By the numbers: NASA's Space Launch System
NASA News:
U.S. Space Launch System (SLS) Fun Facts
Space.com:
Space Launch System: NASA's Giant Rocket Explained (Infographic)
Daily Mail:
'It will revolutionise our understanding of the universe': Most powerful telescope ever built will answer the big questions about the cosmos
Auburn Plainsman:
Professor's study of 'UFO religion' helps him stand out in classroom
September 14, 2011
Space Daily:
Russia sets first post-crash manned flight for November
Universe Today:
Russian Space Agency Sets Dates for Resuming Progress, Soyuz Launches
Spaceflight Now:
Russia sets Nov. 12 for next manned Soyuz rocket launch
Space.com:
Makers of Tiny Satellites View Space Station as Launch Pad
Bellingham Herald:
A long mission to 'Mars' for Colombian man
University of Arizona News:
Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid Before OSIRIS-REx Launch
The Dew Line:
IMAGES: Lockheed's stealth C-130 successor revealed
Popular Science:
Scottish Scientists Are Trying to Create Inorganic Life
September 13, 2011
Gulf Live:
Charles Hickson, famous for claimed Pascagoula UFO abduction, dies at 80 (video, audio)
Astrobiology Magazine:
50 New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS
Space.com:
'Super-Earth,' 1 of 50 Newfound Alien Planets, Could Potentially Support Life
Discovery News:
Batch of Fifty New Alien Worlds Discovered
Science Magazine:
'Super-Earth' Found in Habitable Zone
Space.com:
Confirmed! Scientists Tally Over 600 Alien Planets
Space Daily:
Three ISS crew members scheduled to return on Friday
Discovery News:
Pale Red Dot: Desert Planets as Abodes for Life?
ESA News:
Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution
New Scientist:
Mega space storm would kill satellites for a decade
Dvice:
This flying drone can hack into Wi-Fi networks from above
Innovation News:
Confederate Flying Machine Will Rise Again at Auction
September 12, 2011
Daily Mail:
Nasa receives first messages from the Grail moon probes as they hurtle through space
Space.com:
NASA Sets Sights on Mars After Unmanned Moon Shot
Spaceflight Now:
NASA says crashing science satellite is low risk to public
Innovation News:
Plenty of Targets for Robots Exploring the Final Frontier
Daily Mail:
Inside the Great Red Spot: Nasa telescopes unlock the secret of a storm that has been raging around Jupiter for 350 YEARS
Discovery News:
Phantom Menace Bullies Alien World
Daily Mail:
Is 'laser fusion' the future? Britain and U.S. join forces as laser flash releases more power than the whole world was using
Popular Mechanics:
What Really Happened in Area 51?
WEEKEND EDITION: September 10 thru 11, 2011
New Scientist:
Scour Earth for traces of intelligent aliens
Discovery News:
Is the Emergence of Life and Dark Energy Related?
New Scientist:
Astrophile: Saturn-lookalike galaxy has a murky past
Cosmos:
Unlocking the secrets of superconductors
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: 10 Renowned Scientists Make Their PopSci Debut
Innovation News:
Inventions Ahead of Their Time: The Helicopter
Gizmodo:
The Transistor Was Almost Called the Iotatron
Daily Mail:
Nearly 40, but still looking good: How Pixar founders made the world's first 3D computer special effects in 1972
IEEE Spectrum:
Robots Figuring Out how to Figure Things Out
IEEE Spectrum:
Clever Cornell Robot Finds your Lost Keyboard
Daily Mail:
Is Britain's chatty Cleverbot the first machine to crack the 60-year-old quest for a computer that can 'think' like a human?
Innovation News:
Where's My Sexbot?
Popular Science:
IFA 2011: The Most Awesome Tech You'll Probably Never Get
Popular Science:
Pulsed power accelerator fires 75 trillion watts of X-rays
Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence for an Iron-Rich Early Ocean
Astrobiology Magazine:
Volcanic Pumice as Rafts of Life
Cosmos:
Prehistoric birds had a modern bite
Daily Mail:
'Best candidate for missing link' lived in South Africa 2million years ago... with longer arms but human-like hips
Cosmos:
Do birds have thumbs?
Science Magazine:
Dive-Bombing Hummingbirds Let Their Feathers Do the Talking
Wired:
Wing Secrets That Help Insects Rule the World
Astrobiology Magazine:
A Fish that Leaps to Land
Cosmos:
How blind cavefish can tell the time
Popular Science:
Antibiotics May Be Permanently Altering the Guts of Humanity
Popular Science:
After A Magnetic Pulse to the Brain, Study Subjects Cannot Tell a Lie
Gizmodo:
Here's Where the Word Luddite Really Comes From
Gizmodo:
Scientists Use Radar to Unearth Incredible Roman Gladiator School
Gizmodo:
How Architects Saved An Ancient Abbey From Destruction
September 9, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Delays Launch of Twin Moon Probes to Saturday
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket motor tested as NASA plots next phase of program
Space.com:
World's Largest Solid Rocket Motor Ignites in Utah Desert Test
Discovery News:
Six-Ton Satellite to Plunge Back to Earth
Space.com:
Falling Space Junk: The Facts About NASA's Doomed UARS Satellite
Space.com:
Stealth Alien Planet Discovered By New Technique
Universe Today:
‘Invisible' World Discovered Around a Distant Star
Discovery News:
45 Years Later, Star Trek Continues to Inspire
Gizmodo:
The Moon Like You Have Never Seen It Before
September 8, 2011
Universe Today:
Last Delta II Rocket to Launch Extraordinary Journey to the Center of the Moon on Sept. 8
Space.com:
Windy Weather Delays Launch of NASA's Moon Gravity Mission
Space.com:
Huge Defunct Satellite to Plunge to Earth Soon, NASA Says
Space Daily:
MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Says
Scientific American:
NASA's Shrinking Astronaut Corps May Be Too Thin, Report Finds
Astrobiology Magazine:
What if the ISS Becomes a Ghost Town?
Discovery News:
'Astroarchaeologists' to Revive Dead Satellite
Space.com:
Lunar Timeline: Humanity's Exploration of the Moon
NASA Science:
GRAIL and the Mystery of the Missing Moon
Daily Mail:
Bling came from space: Earth's gold and platinum arrived in a meteor shower that lasted 200MILLION years
Discovery News:
Meteorites Pummeled Earth, Delivering Gold
Space.com:
45 Years On, Why Has 'Star Trek' Stayed So Popular?
Space.com:
The Evolution of 'Star Trek' (Infographic)
Discovery News:
UFOs In Skies, Photos, and Best-Seller Lists
September 7, 2011
KLAS:
I-Team: Former Intelligence Officer Speaks of UFO's
Space.com:
NASA Unveils New Detailed Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites
Daily Mail:
New photographs released to silence conspiracy theory that Moon landings were a massive Nasa hoax
Space.com:
On the Moon, Flags & Footprints of Apollo Astronauts Won't Last Forever
Space.com:
'Journey to the Center of the Moon': The Science of NASA's Lunar Gravity Mission
Cosmos:
Astronauts mull unmanned space station risks
Space Daily:
NASA mulls 'what-ifs' of unmanned space station
Universe Today:
No Evacuation Plans for ISS Yet
Discovery News:
Could New Rover's Wheels Deliver Germs to Mars?
Daily Telegraph:
What's the weather like on other planets?
Gizmag:
The airship finally takes off - Hybrid Air Vehicles has first civil customer
Dvice:
Infrared cloaking system makes tanks completely disappear
Innovation News:
INFOGRAPHIC: Rise of the Drones
September 6, 2011
Stuff NZ:
NASA goes back to the future: airships
Daily Mail:
Never mind pilots, this green laser is so powerful it can dazzle astronauts - and it's on sale
Dvice:
Brits want to bring 1970s satellite back from the dead
Daily Mail:
'The big splat': Moon's mountain ranges were 'formed from collision with smaller moon'
Nature:
Jumpy stars slow hunt for other Earths
New Scientist:
Antimatter surplus is not dark matter's smoking gun
East Anglian Daily Times:
Woodbridge: UFO experts and witnesses aim to unearth ‘truth'
September 5, 2011
Space Daily:
Dawn has completed the first phase of its exploration of Vesta
Space.com:
Secretive Private Spaceship Builder Reports Rocket Failure
NASA News:
Twin GRAIL Spacecraft to Map the Moon's Gravity
Astrobiology Magazine:
High-Tech Instruments to Search for Life on Mars
Nature:
Venus scientists fear neglect
NASA News:
Dwarf Planet Mysteries Beckon to New Horizons
NASA Science News:
Reuse, Reliability Will Launch Future, Study Says
Gizmodo:
12 Satellites Under Construction
WEEKEND EDITION: September 3 thru 4, 2011
Popular Science:
Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything
Dvice:
13 critical steps that'll get our butts to Mars by the 2030s
Astrobiology Magazine:
Dolphins, Aliens, and the Search for Intelligent Life
Discovery News:
Dolphin Whisperer Could Help Us Talk To E.T.
Cosmos:
Life from Earth could be spreading across the galaxy
Innovation News:
Where's My Lunar Colony?
Innovation News:
Future Spacesuit to Imitate Gravity on Long NASA Missions
Cosmos:
Robot race to the Moon
Gizmodo:
This Clock Won't Be Late for Another Ten Million Years, Give or Take
Gizmodo:
Two Chatbots Face Off to Discuss God, Unicorns and Experience Sexual Tension
Gizmodo:
You Can Now Rent Sir Richard Branson's Flying Submarine
IEEE Spectrum:
Build Your Own Undersea Robot
Gizmag:
Film-maker's Camera Eye is up and shooting
Gizmodo:
The $40 Million Delivery Blimp
Daily Mail:
First new species of bird discovered in U.S. for 37 years... the only problem is, it's dead
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: The 'I' in Ant
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Cane Toad Carnage
Wired:
Bacteria in Gut Influence Brains of Mice, Soothed by Probiotic Broth
Wired:
Human Brains Are Primally Wired to Notice Animals
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Brad Pitt Is Not an Animal
Daily Mail:
I'll get my coat: Woolly rhino rewrites theory of Ice Age survival in Tibet's frozen evolutionary cradle
Cosmos:
Oldest known advanced stone tools found
Science Magazine:
Why Did Early Humans Leave Africa Without the Latest Gadgets?
Daily Mail:
Trip to the Zhou: Remains of horses and chariots unearthed from tomb dating back to 3,000-year-old Chinese dynasty
Science Magazine:
Aztec Maps Put Cortes to Shame
Wired:
Reef Madness 11: Darwin's First Theory of Evolution
Gizmodo:
Video of the World's First Realistic Simulation of the Creation of Our Galaxy
Gizmodo:
These Unprecedented Hubble Movies Just Left Me Speechless
Gizmodo:
Magnetism Has Never Been This Mesmerizing
Cosmos:
Dance of the rings
September 2, 2011
Daily Mail:
Blink and you'll miss it: The first footage of hypersonic spacecraft's ill-fated test flight is released
Astrobiology Magazine:
Evidence of Water at Endeavour Crater
Space.com:
At Mars Crater, NASA Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Water Hotspot
ESA News:
Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
Discovery News:
Space Junk Problem Reaches 'Tipping Point'
Daily Mail:
Putting the 'tip' in tipping point: Could giant umbrellas, nets harpoons and magnets capture the cloud of space junk scientists warn risks trapping us on Earth?
Space.com:
Spaceport's Construction Heralds Era of Commercial Space Travel
Universe Today:
Two Into The Blue: One Engineer's Gemini Reflections
Discovery News:
Apollo 18: The Lost Apollo Missions
Wired:
Sept. 2, 1859: Telegraphs Run on Electric Air in Crazy Magnetic Storm
September 1, 2011
Space Daily:
Roscosmos plans to return three ISS crew members on Sept 16
Space Daily:
Russia considering unmanned space station: official
Space Daily:
Russia may put space program under state defense order
Spaceflight Now:
Canadian robot completes first maintenance task
Space.com:
Space Junk Problem Is More Threatening Than Ever, Report Warns
Popular Science:
FYI: Can I Buy Land on the Moon?
Astrobiology Today:
Alien Life More Likely on 'Dune' Planets
Space.com:
Impossible Star Defies Astronomers' Theories
IEEE Spectrum:
Wales Gets Dedicated UAV Airport, Leaves U.S. in the Dust
August 31, 2011
ESA News:
Progress 44 accident and its consequences for Space Station
Space.com:
Space Station's Robot Mechanic Makes Out-of-This-World Repair
China Daily:
Second dawn for lunar probe
Universe Today:
First Image Captured by NASAs Jupiter bound Juno; Earth - Moon Portrait
Discovery News:
Why Does that Martian Crater have a Hole?
Discovery News:
Cassini Visits Spongy-Looking Moon Hyperion
Space.com:
How to Send Astronauts to Asteroids? Earth Needs to Know, Report Suggests
Dvice:
Chinese want to capture an asteroid into Earth's orbit
National Geographic:
New Planet May Be Among Most Earthlike - Weather Permitting
IBN Live:
Delhi students discover new asteroid
Astrobiology Magazine:
Carbon's Deep Mysteries
Gizmag:
AeroVironment unveils the Shrike Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Aircraft System
Yale Daily News:
Dinosaurs still alive when asteroid hit, profs prove
Northumberland Journal:
Crop circles appear in Northumberland field
Newbury Today:
Unexplained lights appear above West Woodhay crop circle land
Epping Forest Guardian:
Epping Forest: UFO files released
August 30, 2011
Space.com:
Russian Rocket Crash Could Delay Private Mission to Space Station
Space.com:
How Would NASA and Russia Evacuate the International Space Station?
Spaceflight Now:
NASA assessing procedures to leave space station vacant
Universe Today:
Cause of Progress Crash May Have Been Determined
Space Daily:
Lost Russian satellite poses threat to space navigation
Daily Mail:
Farming their way to Mars: Gardeners and chefs likely to join astronauts on first trip to the Red Planet
Space.com:
Saturn's Odd Pockmarked Moon Revealed in New Photos
Space.com:
Season for Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds Is Here
Daily Mail:
Two-in-one: The dazzling Pac-Man Nebula powered by an open cluster of stars
Daily Mail:
Extremely long exposure: Photographer endures 15-hour shoots in the wintry Australian outback to snare stunning images of star trails in the night sky
Gizmodo:
Nobody Has Any Idea What the Hell This Mysterious Crashed Drone Is
August 29, 2011
Wired:
Aug. 29, 1965: Long-Distance Calling … Very Long Distance
Spaceflight Now:
Space station could be abandoned in November
Discovery News:
Will the Space Station be Abandoned?
Spaceflight Now:
Russia's workhorse launchers grounded by investigations
Space.com:
New Evidence for Cold Ocean on Early Mars
Daily Mail:
Cold glacier-rimmed ocean once 'covered' the northern lowlands of Mars
Mars Daily:
Out of Thin Martian Air
Popular Science:
Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever
Innovation News Daily:
Miniature Nuclear Reactor to Power Mars and Moon Colonies
Gizmodo:
Fascinating First-Ever Images of an Electron In Orbit
WEEKEND EDITION: August 27 thru 28, 2011
Dvice:
17 ways humanity's first contact with aliens could go down
Universe Today:
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Why Should NASA Go?
Daily Mail:
God particle that would explain the creation of the universe 'might not exist after all'
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - Cubic Neutrons
Scientific American:
Pitch Black: The (almost) dark truth about hot Jupiters
Discovery News:
Sifting Through the Ashes For Shredded Planets
New Scientist:
Electric ice a shock to the solar system
Daily Press:
Mars: Will NASA ever send astronauts?
Daily Mail:
Humans could be sent to colonise universe - but it will take so long to reach destination journey would be finished by astronauts' grandchildren
Popular Science:
State of the Bionic Art: The Best Replacements for My Flimsy Human Parts
Innovation News:
Inventions Ahead of Their Time: Lie Detector
Innovation News:
Where's My Underwater City?
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Geodesic Life
Gizmodo:
12 NASA Blueprints For Building Your Own Spaceship
M.I.T. Technology Review:
The Evolution of Motorola's Wireless Technology
Daily Mail:
The humble mini to the Volkswagen Beetle: Ten of the greatest car designs
Daily Mail:
0 to 60mph in 1.8 seconds: The 1972 Datsun that is the world's quickest electric car
Innovation News:
7 Futuristic Asian Gadgets You Can't Get in the United States
Dvice:
Stare at the stars with an R2-D2 planetarium projector
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Weirdest Ways to Get a Tan
National Geographic:
If We Only Had Wings - The Daring Dream of Personal Flight
Space.com:
Image Album: 50 Great Russian Rocket Launch Photos
Innovation News:
Build Your Own Terminator With Existing Military Tech
Daily Mail:
'Harry Potter' time-freezing binoculars that offer instant action replays
Daily Mail:
Yours for 33,000 pounds: The real-life Tron Lightcycle superbike that can hit speeds of 120mph
Science Magazine:
ScienceShot: Old Sparrows Are Mocking Birds
Daily Mail:
How the kangaroo got its hop: Origin of animal's iconic bounce found by scientists sequencing its DNA for the first time
Daily Mail:
Waspzilla! The fearsome flying beast discovered in the jungle with jaws longer than its front legs
Popular Science:
A Clever New Fishing Method, 'Conching,' is the Latest Trend Spreading Among Australia's Hippest Bottlenose Dolphins
Daily Mail:
Earth, home to mankind and 8.7m other species - but it will take 1,200 years to find them all
Daily Mail:
Are you a man or a mouse? How humans evolved from RODENT that lived in China 160m years ago
Daily Mail:
Flamin' strong evidence that man began cooking with fire two million years ago
Daily Mail:
Was the human race given an ever-lasting boost by breeding with Neanderthal man?
Daily Mail:
Britain's oldest mummies are not individuals but a gruesome jigsaw of human body parts
Daily Mail:
'Lost City of the Legion': Roman port from which soldiers launched invasion of Wales 2,000 years ago is unearthed
Dvice:
This blinky light means your brain is about to forget something
Wired:
Why Some Seconds Seem to Last Forever
Gizmodo:
The Mystery of Why Some Slang Lives and Some Slang Dies
Popular Science:
Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing Memory-Erasing Drugs, Neuroethicist Argues
Daily Mail:
The subterranean Amazon: Mighty river found flowing 13,000ft below ground
Scientific American:
The Riddle of the Third Idea: How did the Soviets build a thermonuclear bomb so suspiciously fast?
August 26, 2011
Daily Mail:
The only way IS Essex - if you're an alien: Newly released X Files reveal decades of UFO sightings near Stansted
Market Rasen Mail:
Was missing pilot snatched by aliens?
Daily Mail:
Meteorite blasts across skies of Peru leaving forest fires in its wake
Space.com:
Russia's Rocket Failures Spark Increasing Worry in US
Space.com:
Russia May Launch Another Soyuz Rocket Friday Despite Recent Failure
Space.com:
US Military Video Shows Hypersonic Aircraft Test Flight
Space.com:
Mystery Solved: Earth's Meteorites Came From Stony Asteroids
New Scientist:
Extraterrestrial dust reveals asteroid's past and future
Daily Mail:
Is this the biggest rock ever? Astronomers discover planet made of DIAMONDS
Space.com:
Surprise! Alien Planet Made of Diamond Discovered
Discovery News:
This Diamond Planet Will Last Forever
New Scientist:
Astrophile: The diamond as big as a planet
Discovery News:
Coldest 'Missing Link' Brown Dwarf Discovered
August 25, 2011
Space.com:
Russian Space Station Cargo Ship Crashes in Failed Rocket Launch
Space.com:
How Russian Spacecraft Crash Affects Space Station and Crew
Discovery News:
Cargo Ship Loss Will Impact ISS Operations
New Scientist:
Russian rocket failure to ground human launches
Spaceflight Now:
Station partners assess impacts after cargo launch failure
Space.com:
How Russia's Progress Spaceships Work (Infographic)
Discover Magazine:
3 Spacecraft That Refuse to Quit
Astrobiology Magazine:
Greenhouse Effect Could Extend Habitable Zone
Space.com:
Black Hole Caught in Act of Swallowing Star
Popular Science:
PopSci Q&A: Creating Crop Circles With Lasers and Microwaves
Popular Science:
Gallery: Crop Circle Artists Bring Fractals to the Fields
New York Times:
Budd Hopkins, Abstract Expressionist and U.F.O. Author, Dies at 80
August 24, 2011
Space.com:
45 Years Ago: How the 1st Photo of Earth From the Moon Happened
Universe Today:
Opportunity Arrives at Huge Martian Crater with Superb Science and Scenic Outlook
Space.com:
Five Years Later, Pluto's Planethood Demotion Still Stirs Controversy
National Geographic:
Should Pluto Be a Planet? New Finds Drive Debate
Space.com:
Dwarf Planet Pluto Holds Big Surprises for Speedy NASA Probe
Space.com:
Pluto's Planet Title Defender: Q & A With Planetary Scientist Alan Stern
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket failure dooms space station cargo freighter launch
Spaceflight Now:
Inquiry into rocket mishap focuses on control system
Discovery News:
NASA to Test Ultimate Space Wifi
New Scientist:
Space entrepreneurs may hold fate of ISS
NASA Science News:
Discovered: Stars as Cool as the Human Body
Astrobiology Magazine:
Exploring Alien Atmospheres
Universe Today:
How Did Jupiter Shape Our Solar System?
Daily Mail:
The ultimate hot air balloon: Capsule that can take brave (and wealthy) explorers into Earth's stratosphere to launch in two years
August 23, 2011
Grass Valley Union:
UFO sightings: Seeing is believing
Daily Mail:
'One giant leap for tinman kind': Space station's humanoid robot comes alive
Space.com:
NASA Picks 3 Pioneering Technologies for Deep Space Travel
Spaceflight Now:
NASA pursues tests of solar sail, laser communications
Space.com:
The Dirt on Mars' Soil: More Suitable for Life Than Thought
Space.com:
Cosmic Crashes May Give Habitable Planets the Boot
Discovery News:
Has Earth Brand Life Seeded the Galaxy?
Daily Mail:
Life on Mars closer than ever for man claims scientist creating artificial life that feeds off carbon dioxide
August 22, 2011
The Telegraph:
Former Armed Forces head wanted probe into UFO sighting, newly released files show
Popular Science:
World's Oldest Fossils Show Sulfur-Based Microbes Lived 3.4 Billion Years Ago, Presenting a New Target for Astrobiology
Daily Mail:
Tiny fossils of first known life on Earth are found on world's oldest beach in Australia
Discovery News:
Oldest Fossil on Earth Found
Technology Review:
Earth Ejecta Could Have Seeded Life on Europa
Discovery News:
Probes to Take Long Way to the Moon
Space.com:
Lost Russian Communications Satellite Found in Wrong Orbit
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Soil Not Too Extreme for Life
Space.com:
Meet the Solar System's Dwarf Planets
Stuff NZ:
Stars fade as universe runs out of gas
Universe Today:
No, NASA is Not Predicting We'll be Destroyed by Aliens
Discover Magazine:
The Giant Crusher That Can Destroy NASA Rockets
The Engineer:
'Swarm technology' could allow UAVs to work together
Gizmag:
Boeing demonstrates swarm technology
WEEKEND EDITION: August 20 thru 21, 2011
Discovery News:
The 'Virtual Universe' Will Be Full of Discoveries
Discover Magazine:
Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram
Discovery News:
What if Earth Were a Cube?
Wired:
Mother Nature as Engineer: 9 Design Tricks Borrowed From Biology
Innovation News:
Where's My Robot Maid?
Gizmag:
Swarmanoid robots work together ... to steal books
Dvice:
I hope this running robot never runs after me
Gizmodo:
New Bionic Leg Thinks and Moves Like a Real Limb
Popular Science:
New Computer Chip Modeled on a Living Brain Can Learn and Remember
Daily Mail:
IBM develops first 'brain chips' capable of mimicking the process of human thought
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: A Century of Ambitious Amphibious Vehicles
Innovation News:
Inventions Ahead of Their Time: The Dishwasher
Gizmodo:
Major Patent Milestones From One to Eight Million
Daily Mail:
Amazingly preserved 2,000-year-old Iron Age wooden road found in Norfolk wetlands
Daily Mail:
Britain's first town planners: Iron Age settlement that pre-dates Roman conquest is unearthed near Reading
Daily Mail:
Lost Roman amphitheatre of the North found on hilltop outside Yorkshire village
Daily Mail:
Hidden cameras take amazing pictures of animals roaming Earth's remote jungles... and even snap armed poachers
Gizmodo:
Can the World's Largest Undersea Observatory Find a Kraken in the Next 25 Years?
Daily Mail:
New species of dinosaur-era eel wriggles into history books as a 'living fossil'
Science Magazine:
How Baleen Whales Got Their Big Gulp
Wired:
Bird Flight Might Have Started With Legs, Not Wings
New York Times:
Parasite Hijacks Rats' Arousal Circuitry, Study Finds
Science Magzine:
Aha! Elephants Can Use Insight to Solve Problems
Daily Mail:
The very ancient mariners: Early human ancestors were more advanced than first thought and sailed the high seas
Daily Mail:
Rewinding evolution: Scientists alter chicken DNA to create embryo with 'alligator-like' snout
Science Magazine:
Is Evolution Predictable?
Daily Mail:
The brains of people who have stammered since childhood show evidence of 'rewiring' between the left and right brain
Gizmodo:
This Optical Illusion Is Melting My Brain
New York Times:
Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course
Popular Science:
You Call This College? The 25 Coolest College Labs in the Country
August 19, 2011
NASA News:
Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth
Space.com:
Superfast Military Aircraft Hit Mach 20 Before Ocean Crash, DARPA Says
Popular Science:
DARPA Fills Us In On HTV-2's Semi-Successful Flight and Very Successful Crash
Daily Mail:
Russia loses contact with just-launched 160m satellite in latest setback for its space industry
Spaceflight Now:
Powerful communications satellite feared lost in space
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese rocket fails to orbit experimental satellite
Space.com:
NASA Tests Deep Space Capsule for Launch and Landing
Popular Science:
A Chinese Solar Sailing Scheme to Divert the Asteroid Apophis from its Collision Course with Earth
Astrobiology Magazine:
Oxygen's Watery Past
Universe Today:
Rewriting Lunar History
Time:
The Blackest Planet in the Universe: How Astronomers Discovered a Dark, Glowing 'Hot Jupiter'
Space.com:
Synthetic Life Could Help Colonize Mars, Biologist Says
Space.com:
Vegans on Mars? PETA Says Yes, Please
Discovery News:
Are UFOs Alien? No!
Daily Mail:
Aliens vs. humans: Eco-friendly ETs could wipe out polluted planet Earth to protect their civilisations, warns Nasa
Discovery News:
To Save the Galaxy, Destroy Humanity
Press Release Central:
UFO crash site artifacts to be displayed at Midwest UFO Conference
Epoch Times:
August Crop Circle Photos From the UK
August 18, 2011
Discovery News:
Russia and Europe to Send Man to Mars?
Spaceflight Now:
18-year-old GPS satellite returns to navigation duty
Dvice:
DARPA: Mach 20 test vehicle made 'stable flight, controlled descent'
Discovery News:
Comet Elenin Won't Kill Us, Says NASA
New Scientist:
Moon may be 200 million years younger than thought
Space.com:
Moon May Be Younger Than You Think, Evidence Suggests
Discovery News:
Man on the Moon Not So Old
University of Michigan News:
Microbial life on Mars: Could saltwater make it possible?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Amino Acid Alphabet Soup
Universe Today:
Finding Phobos: Discovery of a Martian Moon
Daily Mail:
Is it a meteor? No, it's the International Space Station snapped from the great British outdoors
August 17, 2011
South Wales Argus:
Three UFO sightings reported in Gwent
Oxford Mail:
County sighting listed in UFO archive
Columbia Daily Tribune:
Journalists who shun UFO reports fail readers
Daily Mail:
World's first privately funded Spaceship to dock at International Space Station after Nasa's fleet is retired
NASA Science News:
NASA Plans to Visit a Near-Earth Asteroid
Space.com:
Will We Be Able to Deflect an Earthbound Asteroid?
Popular Science:
Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
Daily Mail:
Room with an intergalactic view: Russian firm reveals plans for space hotel (but you might need a good book)
Gizmodo:
This Quadcopter Is Perfect for Hunting Wildlife and Celebs Alike
August 16, 2011
NASA News:
Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space
Universe Today:
SpaceX: Dragon ISS Bound
Spaceflight Now:
Photo: Panorama of Mars rover components
Spaceflight Now:
Juno spacecraft right on course after flawless launch
Argus Leader:
S.D. algae could land on Mars
Discover Magazine:
Vesta's double whammy
Astrobiology Magazine:
Keeping an Eye on the Super Earth Next Door
Space.com:
Colliding Galaxies Offer Preview of Milky Way's Demise
Space.com:
When Galaxies Collide: A Q&A on Our Milky Way's Future
Daily Mail:
'Making science-fiction a reality': Bulletproof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk developed by researchers
Discover Magazine:
Gorgeous planet art
Gizmodo:
You May Get to See Space From a Balloon by the Middle of the Decade
August 15, 2011
Daily Mail:
After 438 days in a 12ft-wide capsule, 'Mars' astronauts break record for longest space mission... and they haven't even left Earth
Nature News:
Close-up of Vesta poses puzzle
Discovery News:
Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor... From Space
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Impact Mitigation
Science Magazine:
'Earth-Mars' Collision May Have Happened in Alien Solar System
Popular Science:
Sneak Preview: Military's Maple-Seed-Inspired Drone, Plus More to Come at UAV Show Next Week
Gizmag:
Air Swimmers give a new meaning to 'flying fish'
WEEKEND EDITION: August 13 thru 14, 2011
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - A Photon's Point Of View
Science Magazine:
Pushing Light Beyond Light Speed
Universe Today:
Coming To A Solar System Near You... Super-Earth!
Discovery News:
Edison's Anti-Gravity Underwear and Other Wonders
Innovation News:
Ten Computers That Changed the World
Gizmodo:
9 Laboratories That Created the Modern World
Gizmodo:
The Lost Origins of the Stopwatch: A Story of Racehorses and Scrappy Startups
Discovery News:
Remembering Our Horror Movie Space Pioneers
Scientific American:
Is Hollywood's 'Alien Fever' Inspired by Real Science Finds?
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Riddle of Regeneration
Daily Mail:
The wonderful lizards of Oz: Over 20 three-toed dinosaur tracks found on Australian coast
Vancouver Sun:
Plesiosaurs carried young like a mammal, study finds
Daily Mail:
Woah Mama! Ancient fossil of pregnant 'sea monster' solves 200-year-old mystery about reptile parenting
Daily Mail:
Jumping secrets of gibbons revealed: It's all in a fluid crouch-and-lunge technique
Science Magazine:
Do Tayras Plan for the Future?
Daily Mail:
Mankind isn't the only altruistic species... chimps have a heart too
Science Magazine:
Lab Chimps Extend a Helping Hand
Popular Science:
Gallery: A Brief History of Immortality
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: A Vintage Guide to Enjoying Your Summer Vacation
Gizmodo:
10 of the Most Mind-Blowing Slow Motion Videos You've Ever Seen
Atlantic Magazine:
World War II: The American Home Front in Color
Gizmodo:
The 360-Degree Panorama of What Hiroshima Looked Like After the Atomic Bomb
August 12, 2011
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph:
Government's X-Files reveal sighting of UFO
Daily Mail:
Up, up... and away! $300m hypersonic aircraft goes MISSING after ground officials lose contact just minutes after its launch
Universe Today:
Test Flight of DARPA's Hypersonic Plane Ends in Crash
Spaceflight Now:
Pentagon's hypersonic flight test cut short by anomaly
Los Angeles Times:
New NASA moon rocket could cost $38 billion
Discovery News:
Smidgen of Antimatter Surrounds Earth
National Geographic:
Antimatter Found Orbiting Earth—A First
TG Daily:
Martian channels 'caused by lava, not water'
NASA News:
NASA's Asteroid Photographer Beams Back Science Data
National Geographic:
Three New "Plutos"? Possible Dwarf Planets Found
Discovery News:
Oddball Exoplanet is Darker than Coal
Space.com:
Weird! Our Universe May Be a 'Multiverse,' Scientists Say
Discovery News:
Looking for the Thumbprints of Parallel Universes
Daily Mail:
Giant Necklace Nebula brightly glows with dense knots of blue, green and red gases
Daily Mail:
The stargazing guide that will let you enjoy the Perseid meteor shower despite a full moon
August 11, 2011
BBC:
Ministry of Defence files on UFO sightings released
BBC:
Files reveal Blackburn MoD police UFO sighting
BBC:
The truth isn't out there
BBC:
Welsh UFO sightings revealed in latest government files
North Wales Daily Post:
Secret files on North Wales UFOs revealed
Lancashire Telegraph:
Secret files reveal policemen reported 'UFO' in Blackburn
Manchester Evening News:
Revealed: Our close encounters with UFOs unveiled in secret reports
East Anglian Daily Times:
Rendlesham: Still no ‘smoking gun' in latest UFO files
Malverne Gazette:
UFO sightings from Malvern in report
Halifax Evening Courier:
Secret files reveal our UFO sightings
Shropshire Star:
UFO files opened on objects in Shropshire sky
Pirate FM:
Cornish UFO Sightings
Inside Ireland:
MoD release secret UFO sighting files
The Scottsman:
UFO files: Huge flying jellyfish spotted over Scotland
BBC:
UFO claims were not investigated
Daily Mail:
Mars as you've never see it before: Opportunity finally arrives at rim of giant crater for one last adventure
Space.com:
Perseid Meteor Shower Competes With Full Moon on Friday
Universe Today:
The Perseids: Why is There a Meteor Shower?
Space.com:
Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts
Universe Today:
How To Enjoy The 2011 Perseid Meteor Shower
Universe Today:
Meteor Shower Points Towards Undiscovered Earthbound Comet
Space.com:
NASA Sun-Watching Satellite Spots Comet Elenin in Deep Space
Universe Today:
Astronomers Discover a Dark Alien World
Universe Today:
The Hidden Galaxy in the Zone of Avoidance
Space.com:
NASA Picks 7 Private Spaceships for Trips to Edge of Space
Daily Mail:
NY to LA in TWELVE minutes: Hypersonic aircraft that flies at 20 times the speed of sound takes to skies
Space.com:
DARPA Launches Hypersonic Glider on Mach 20 Test Flight
Popular Science:
DARPA's HTV-2 Launches, Contact Lost, Status of Mission Remains Unclear
Popular Science:
In Preparation for Moving Retired Shuttles, NASA Crews Practice Heavy Lifting
Space.com:
Space Junk Cleanup Poses Grand Challenge for 21st Century
Discovery News:
Ten Mind-Blowing Solar Views from the SDO: Photos
National Geographic:
Photos: Multicolored Auroras Sparked by Double Sun Blast
August 10, 2011
NASA News:
Sun Unleashes X6.9 Class Flare
Daily Mail:
Sun unleashes largest solar flare in five years, sending 10billion ton storm cloud hurtling through space at 5million mph
Space.com:
How Does the Sun Spark X-Class Solar Flares?
National Geographic:
As Sun Storms Ramp Up, Electric Grid Braces for Impact
Space.com:
Solar Storms Building Toward Peak in 2013, NASA Predicts
Space.com:
Anatomy of Sun Storms & Solar Flares (Infographic)
Space.com:
The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History
Scientific American:
The X Factor: Solar storms and life as we know it
Universe Today:
Replication of Arsenic Life Experiment Not Successful So Far
Popular Science:
IBM Mysteriously Halts Work on the World's Fastest Academic Supercomputer
Coventry Telepgraph:
Investigators try to decipher meaning of Temple Balsall crop circle
August 9, 2011
Discovery News:
Meteorites Carried Life's Building Block to Earth
Astrobiology Magazine:
Meteorites Deliver Nucleobases to Earth
NASA News:
NASA Mars Rover Approaches Long-Term Goal
Universe Today:
Opportunity Snaps Gorgeous Vistas nearing the Foothills of Giant Endeavour Crater
Daily Mail:
Final destination: After three years, Mars rover Opportunity poised to reach rim of giant crater for last brave adventure
Space.com:
Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare in Years
Universe Today:
How Big Are Solar Flares?
Daily Mail:
A solution to space junk? Satellite that sends debris to its death in Earth's atmosphere proposed
Astrobiology Magazine:
Comet Collision To Come?
The Voice Of Russia:
A trap for asteroids
Space.com:
NASA Invests in Far-Out Space Tech for Future Missions
Universe Today:
NIAC is Back: NASA Funds 30 Innovative Ideas that Just Might Work
Daily Mail:
Why our brain's sense of space and location struggles to map altitude
Universe Today:
Searching For Gravitational Waves
Science Magazine:
The Fate of the First Black Hole
Defense Update:
IAI Unveils the Ghost – a Miniature UAV For Special Operations
Dvice:
The real-deal Star Trek theme park is a go
Space.com:
Skywatching Events for August 2011
August 8, 2011
Daily Mail:
Suffolk UFO sighting could have been a hoax: U.S. commander talks about Rendlesham Forest incident for first time in 30 years
The Telegraph:
Rendlesham Incident: US commander speaks for the first time about the 'Suffolk UFO'
NASA News:
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter
Space.com:
Satellite Grappler Snags Top Space Business Prize
Aviation Week:
Simulated Asteroid Mission Set
Internatinal Business Times:
Top 10 Past Findings that Suggested Evidence of Water on Mars (PHOTOS)
Discovery News:
Earth May Not Have Needed Moon for Life
Space.com:
Nemesis No More? Comet-Hurling 'Death Star' Most Likely a Myth
National Geographic:
How Planets Can Survive a Supernova
Daily Mail:
Planets can survive a star's supernova by 'being flung out to roam the galaxy'
Space.com:
Why Doesn't the International Space Station Have a Name?
Popular Science:
Boeing Workers Will Fly to ISS Aboard Their Company's New Spaceship
Daily Mail:
DIY hacker drone: Home-made surveillance craft can launch airborne cyber attacks
Gizmag:
Quadshot RC aircraft combines quadricopter hovering with airplane flight
Gizmodo:
This Is the Sad State of One of the Most Iconic Buildings In the United States
Daily Mail:
To the deep sea and beyond: The mini submarines that will take tourists to the bottom of the ocean
Gizmag:
Manipulating light at will - Duke metamaterials strike again
The Coloradan:
Technology removes astronomical limits
WEEKEND EDITION: August 6 thru 7, 2011
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - The Unlikeliness Of Being
Daily Mail:
The Big Bang in pictures: Scientists produce computer images of particle explosions similar to the greatest ever galactic light show
Scientific American:
Life, Unbounded
Dvice.com:
Our universe may show bruises from smacking four other universes
New Scientist:
Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond
Discovery News:
Should We Respond to an Interstellar RSVP?
IEEE Spectrum:
Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites
The Dew Line:
PICTURE: One AFRL briefing, lots of new aircraft
Daily Mail:
Thinking for itself: The robot that learns functions it was not programmed to do
Daily Mail:
Speeding is believing: The bike with gears you can change by using your mind
Gizmag:
I think, therefore I move - 'brain cap' turns thought into motion
Dvice:
A real Iron Man suit you can buy is now about five years away
Innovation News:
Selectric Typewriter's Legacy Endures in the Digital Age
Innovation News:
Inventions Ahead of Their Time: The Vacuum Cleaner
Innovation News:
Inventions Ahead of Their Time: The Talking Doll
New Scientist:
Egyptian tomb mystery may be world's first protractor
Daily Mail:
Shine a light: Why the 2,000-year-old Pantheon in Rome might actually be a giant sundial
Wall Street Journal:
What They Know
Science Magazine:
The Mystery of the Missing Fingerprints
Daily Mail:
The world's biggest babysitters: How sperm whales use their grandmothers to look after young
Daily Mail:
Do not disturb: Monkeys invent new method of communication by covering their eyes when they want to be left alone
Daily Mail:
Our 20million-year-old ancestor: Scientists find fossil of ancient ape in volcano
Daily Mail:
Ancient dog skull from 33,000 years ago discovered in Siberia
Daily Mail:
The end of evolution? Scientists say human brain may have reached full capacity
Daily Mail:
Going underground: The massive European network of Stone Age tunnels that weaves from Scotland to Turkey
Daily Mail:
The marble cathedral of Chile: Are these the world's most beautiful caves?
Dvice:
Underwater hotel room has guests sleeping with the sharks
Dvice:
The 15 best electron microscope images of 2011
August 5, 2011
Popular Science:
Carefully Engineered to Survive Fierce Radiation, Juno Probe Launches Today to Visit Jupiter
Space.com:
Mystery Lines on Mars Carved By Water, Study Suggests
Discovery News:
Trickle of Salt Water -- on Mars
Space.com:
Hints of Water Spark Fresh Hope for Life on Mars
Space.com:
FAQ: Significance of Liquid Water On Mars
ESA News:
Mars' northern polar regions in transition
New Scientist:
Antiproton ring found around Earth
Popular Science:
PAMELA Spacecraft Finds a Belt of Antimatter Around the Earth
Space.com:
The Greatest Mysteries of Jupiter's Moons
Space.com:
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Our Solar System?
Gizmodo:
The World's First Flying Sphere Looks Like an Alien Death Bot
August 4, 2011
Space.com:
NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter to Be Farthest Solar-Powered Trip
Space.com:
Earth Had Two Moons That Crashed to Form One, Study Suggests
New Scientist:
Second moon's remains may cover lunar far side
Space.com:
3 Small, Icy Worlds Discovered in Pluto's Territory
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Odds for Life on a Moonless Earth
August 3, 2011
Daily Mail:
'Freaked out' BBC reporter tells millions of radio listeners of the moment he faced a UFO on his way to work
Space.com:
Crop-Circle Artists Becoming High Tech
Space.com:
NASA's New Juno Mission to Explore Jupiter's Mysteries
Sydney Morning Herald:
Jupiter holds secret recipe for solar system
Spaceflight Now:
Get to know Juno's launcher: The Atlas 5 rocket
NASA News:
Peering Inside the Flame: Fusion Imaging of the Final Space Shuttle Launch
Space.com:
96 Hidden Star Clusters Discovered by Dust-Piercing Telescope
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth Impacts: More Likely in the Past or Present?
New York Times:
Costly Drone Is Poised to Replace U-2 Spy Plane
August 2, 2011
NASA News:
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta
Universe Today:
NASA Unveils Thrilling First Full Frame Images of Vesta from Dawn
MIT Technology Review:
Europe's Plan to Move An Asteroid
Gizmodo:
These Never Before Shot Views of the International Space Station Are Breathtaking
Space.com:
NASA Closes Historic Antenna Station That Tracked Every Space Shuttle Launch
Space.com:
Gallery: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter
Universe Today:
Cassini Captures a Menagerie of Moons
Time Magazine:
Earth's Little Sidekick: A Tugboat Asteroid
August 1, 2011
Universe Today:
JUNO Orbiter Mated to Mightiest Atlas rocket for Aug. 5 Blastoff to Jupiter
Space.com:
'Red Dragon' Mission Mulled as Cheap Search for Mars Life
ABC News:
Mars Water? Not So Fast
Discovery News:
Russia Backtracks on Plan to Sink Space Station
Space.com:
For Astronauts, NASA Not the Only Game in Town Anymore
Discovery News:
Top Exoplanets for Alien Life: Photos
July 30-31, 2011
New York Times:
'It's Alive!' Maybe Right Here on Earth
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: The Best of Biomimicry
Innovation News:
Where's My Ray Gun?
Discovery News:
Remind Me Again, Why Isn't Pluto a Planet?
Astrobiology Magazine:
A.I. in a Test Tube
Gizmag:
Augmented reality windows being developed for Toyota
Dvice:
8 next-gen haptic technologies that will let you feel-up the Web
New York Times:
Rock-Paper-Scissors: You vs. the Computer
Science Magazine:
A Submarine That Doesn't Make Waves
Daily Mail:
Forget the space race, China dips into the deep-sea dash by taking manned sub 5,000m below the surface
Innovation News:
Zero-Emissions Plane Soars on Solar Wings
Dvice:
Boeing brings back pulsejets with new VTOL concept aircraft
Dvice:
Lockheed's HALO blimp is a solar powered insta-satellite
Dvice:
Novel concept uses spent electric car batteries to power your house
Gizmag:
Your very own, portable, Tropical Island Paradise
Daily Mail:
Into the depths of the earth: Cave network in the heart of Vietnamese jungle is so large its end is yet to be found
Daily Mail:
150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs: Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years
Daily Mail:
The chimp they tried to turn into a human: An extraordinary experiment in which scientists raised a chimpanzee as their child... with chilling results
Daily Mail:
Suits you, sir! Mandrill adapts a twig to give himself a 'pedicure' in most complex behaviour yet seen in primate
Popular Science:
Things We Can Learn From Dolphins: Electro-Sensing, Amazing Powers of Healing
Science Magazine:
Asian Elephants Are Social Networkers
Daily Mail:
Stealth mode: Blainville's beaked whales avoid predators by maintaining complete silence near the sea surface
Daily Mail:
South American dolphin is the first 'true mammal' to sense prey by their electric fields
Daily Mail:
Atlantic puffins 'scout out' their own migration routes rather than relying on genetic 'programming'
Daily Mail:
Lurking 130ft in the deep: The extraordinary creatures that live in the freezing waters of the Russian Arctic
Daily Mail:
Dinosaur hunter: The 70million-year-old crocodile with huge teeth and a dog's head
Science Magazine:
Did Greenhouse Gases Unleash the Dinosaurs?
New Scientist:
Earth's time bombs may have killed the dinosaurs
Wired:
Archaeopteryx Knocked From Roost as Original Bird
New Scientist:
Existence: Where did we come from?
New Scientist:
Existence: Why is there a universe?
New Scientist:
Existence: Are we alone in the universe?
New Scientist:
Existence: Am I a hologram?
New Scientist:
Existence: Where did my consciousness come from?
New Scientist:
Existence: Why is the universe just right for us?
New Scientist:
Existence: Am I a zombie?
New York Times:
It's Fashionable to Take a Trip to Another Universe
July 29, 2011
Discovery News.com:
Is This the Lunar Crash Site of a 1967 Spacecraft?
Space.com:
Earth's Stabilizing Moon May Be Unique Within Universe
New Scientist:
3D printing: The world's first printed plane
Space.com
:
3-D Printer Passes Zero Gravity Test to Make Space Tools
July 28, 2011
NASA News:
NASA's WISE Mission Finds First Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth's Orbit
Space.com:
First Asteroid Companion of Earth Discovered at Last
New Scientist:
Earth stalker found in eternal twilight
Discovery News:
Jupiter Probe to Explore How Planets Formed
Science Magazine:
Black Hole Collision May Have Set Off Fireworks in the Milky Way
July 27, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald:
Mysterious UFO made of polystyrene
New Hampshire Union Leader:
50 years later, couple's UFO legend lives on
Discovery News:
Space Station to Be Sunk After 2020
Universe Today:
SpaceX Pushes for Mission to Space Station on Next Flight
Popular Science:
NASA and SpaceX Tentatively Agree to Speed Up Test Flight Schedule
Popular Science:
Amateur Astronomer Discovers Blue-Raspberry-Shaped Planetary Nebula
Universe Today:
New Image Triples Your Galaxy Fun
July 26, 2011
Space.com:
Giant Meteorite Discovered in China
The Register:
Lost 1967 spacecraft found crashed on moon
ESA News:
Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
Space.com:
Bizarre Dwarf Planet Wrapped in Ice Blanket
Space.com:
Are We Alone In the Universe? New Analysis Says Maybe
Universe Today:
Happy 40th Anniversary, Apollo 15!
July 25, 2011
Daily Mail:
To boldly go: Nasa's mission orders come in... put astronauts on an asteroid within 15 years
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ABC Australia:
Spilling dirt on the red planet
Sydney Morning Herald:
Hotspot found on Moon's far side
Space.com:
Evidence Builds For Water on Mars
Space.com:
Astronomers Find Largest, Oldest Mass of Water in Universe
Daily Mail:
Why time travel will remain a sci-fi fantasy: Scientists prove nothing can travel faster than the speed of light
Space.com:
China's First Space Station Module Readies For Liftoff
New Scientist:
Sun's death rattle may hurl comets out of solar system
Gizmodo:
How Do You Move a Space Shuttle? This Thing.
July 23-24, 2011
Dvice:
5 insane scientific theories about our big stupid crazy universe
Scientific American:
Does the Multiverse Really Exist?
Scientific American:
The Case for Parallel Universe
Scientific American:
Too Hard For Science? Detecting Signals From Before the Big Bang
Discovery News:
How a Mission to Mars Could Kill You
Science Magazine:
A High-Bandwidth Interplanetary Connection
Daily Mail:
The dream is over for the Space Shuttle Atlantis... a white elephant with no real mission
Innovation News:
The Truth About NASA's Space Tech Spinoffs
Wired:
Inside SpaceX: A Hint of Life After the Space Shuttle
Dvice:
NASA promised us a 10,000 person space colony by 10 years ago
Astrobiology Magazine:
Rewriting the Book of Life
Science Magazine:
Earth Still Retains Much of Its Original Heat
Universe Today:
Astronomy Without A Telescope - Gravitational Waves
Daily Mail:
Eat your heart out, Harry Potter: Scientists build invisibility cloak that actually works (for 110 nanoseconds)
Innovation News:
Record-Setting Robots Enter National Museum of American History
GizMag:
Study shows why human-like robots give people the creeps
Discovery News:
'Octobot' Could Save Your Life
Daily Mail:
At the third stroke, I will be 75: Britain's famous speaking clock nears landmark birthday
GizMag:
For the home that apparently doesn't have everything - an interactive Triceratops
Dvice:
It doesn't get better than a Star Wars RTS on a 20-foot touchwall
Popular Science:
Early Man Walked Upright 2 Million Years Earlier Than We Thought, Says New Analysis
Daily Mail:
First humans out of Africa 'shrank to just 1,000' before rebounding rapidly
University World News:
EUROPE: Neanderthals created material culture
Discovery News:
All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm
Discovery News:
Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling
Daily Mail:
Golden oldies! Grandparents were a rare breed until 30,000 years ago... when life expectancy grew
Daily Mail:
Born copycats! Why we just can't fight the subconscious impulse to imitate others
Wired:
Darpa Searches for Life's Master Clock
Science Magazine:
Why Dolphins Wear Sponges
Daily Mail:
Late night snack: Humans are most at risk of being eaten by lions just after a full moon
July 22, 2011
Universe Today:
Amazing Image: ISS Crew Captures Shuttle Atlantis’ Last Brilliant Trip Through the Atmosphere
Dvice:
Remembering Gus Grissom, NASA's most controversial astronaut
Space.com:
NASA Invaded Red Planet with Viking Mars Landing
Wired:
Giant Crater Is Next Mars Rover Landing Site
Popular Science:
The Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly Solved at Last
Space.com:
New Pluto Moon Adds Another Chapter to Dwarf Planet's Saga
July 21, 2011
Space.com:
Space Shuttle Makes Last Landing in Bittersweet Finale
Space.com:
Photos: NASA's Last Space Shuttle Landing in History
National Geographic:
The Most Unforgettable Space Shuttle Pictures
Gizmodo:
The Fallen Heroes of the Space Shuttle Program
Scientific American:
NASA's Space Shuttle By the Numbers: 30 Years of a Spaceflight Icon
Dvice:
21 incredible things you didn't know about the Space Shuttle
Space.com:
Even Without Space Shuttles, US Spaceflight Lives On, Astronauts Say
Dvice:
Russia touts new 'Soyuz era' as Space Shuttle enters retirement
Space.com:
Private Space Race Heats Up as NASA Shuttles Retire
Discovery News:
Mysterious Moon 'Swirls': Nature's Graffiti?
Space.com:
New Pluto Moon Foreshadows More Surprises for NASA Probe En Route
Discovery News:
The Beautiful Violence of Exoplanet Aurorae
Universe Today:
Worried About Comet Elenin? FAQs from Ian Musgrave
July 20, 2011
Universe Today:
Remembering Apollo 11: July 20, 1969
Cnet:
Looking back at Apollo's Lunar Modules (photos)
Wired:
The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts
NASA News:
NASA's Opportunity Tops 20 Miles of Mars Driving
Discovery News:
'Skinless' Shuttle Also Soon to Retire
Space.com:
Pluto Has Another Moon, Hubble Photos Reveal
National Geographic:
"Death Dance" Stars Found - May Help Prove Einstein Right
Innovation News:
Explosive Idea to Blast Craters in Asteroids
Universe Today:
Herschel Telescope Sees a Twisted Ring at Our Galaxy’s Center
Dvice:
Potentially habitable Tatooine spotted only 40 light years away
Discover Magazine:
Nearby “earth-like” planet: not so much
Universe Today:
Zooming in on Proto-Planetary Disks
Popular Science:
Big Science: The 10 Most Ambitious Experiments in the Universe Today
July 19, 2011
NASA News:
NASA Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of Asteroid Vesta
Space.com:
Last Shuttle Astronauts Bid Historic Farewell to Space Station
National Geographic:
Space Shuttle Pictures: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Views
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Space.com:
NASA Considers Recycling Unmanned Rocket to Carry Astronauts
Daily Mail:
Going where man fears to tread: Flying sphere the size of a basketball that travels at 37mph
Boston Globe:
The sky’s the limit
July 18, 2011
NASA News:
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta
Universe Today:
Dawn Exceeds Wildest Expectations as First Ever Spacecraft to Orbit a Protoplanet – Vesta
Space.com:
Rockets Probe Atmosphere's Mysterious Electric Currents
Discovery News:
Do 'Ultracool' Brown Dwarfs Surround Us?
Daily Mail:
Psychedelic wonder of galaxies at night: Incredible images taken by amateur astronomer using a camera and home-made telescope
July 16-17, 2011
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: Early Visions of Human Spaceflight
National Geographic:
Space-Time Cloak Possible, Could Make Events Disappear?
Wired:
Why Do Astronauts Float Around in Space?
IEEE Spectrum:
Six Things We Lose With the End of the Shuttle Program
GizMag:
SBIRS GEO-1 Missile Warning Satellite Delivering Unprecedented Infrared Surveillance Capabilities
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Universe May Have Been Born Spinning
Space.com:
New Spin Revealed on Mysterious Antimatter
Princeton News:
Onstott's discovery of worms in Earth's depths raises questions about life in space
National Geographic:
How Bright is the Daytime Sky?
Gizmodo:
Does Not Compute: 10 PC Myths from Movies and Television
Popular Science:
American Soccer Robots Dominate at the World RoboCup 2011
Popular Science:
The First Real Brain-Like Computer Could be Made of the Same Material That Makes DVDs
Daily Mail:
Sea monsters really DO lurk beneath the waves, scientists claim
National Geographic:
Pictures: Largest "Sea Monster" Skull Revealed?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ancient Fish Gave Us a Hand
Daily Mail:
Fossil from the 'last dinosaur' proves species WAS wiped out by killer asteroid, say scientists
National Geographic:
Top 10 Machu Picchu Secrets
Daily Mail:
Elusive rainbow toad photographed in colour for the first time, after almost a century in hiding
Gizmodo:
The Largest Gun Ever Built
July 15, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Probe Set to Orbit Huge Asteroid Vesta Tonight
Space.com:
How NASA's Dawn Asteroid Mission Works (Infographic)
UPI:
Ten new distant planets detected
Daily Telegraph:
Finding planet Mars on Earth
Irish Weather Online:
Irish Expedition Sets Sail To Find Atlantic 'Aliens'
Popular Science:
An Inflatable, Portable Satellite Dish that Fits in a Backpack
GizMag:
Experiencing nature from your private Bubble
Innovation News:
Human Brain Adopts Internet as Memory Substitute
July 14, 2011
Daily Mail:
Perhaps it was the druids: Mystery of 200ft crop circle within yards of Stonehenge
NASA News:
NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15
Space.com:
How NASA's Dawn Asteroid Mission Works (Infographic)
Space.com:
Space Toilet Gives Astronauts Smelly Time in Orbit
Innovation News:
Space Shuttle Legacy Includes 50 Percent More Tech Spinoffs than Apollo
Daily Mail:
Moon buggies in Nevada, space walks in swimming pools... and Arab desert dress: The weird and wacky ways Nasa trained its astronauts
Wired:
NASA’s Glorious History of Training Astronauts
Innovation News:
New Material Stores Sunlight's Energy by Changing Shape
July 13, 2011
Universe Today:
New Planet Discovered In Trinary Star System
ABC Australia:
One 'year' on Neptune remains a mystery
Space.com:
The 7 Strangest Asteroids: Weird Space Rocks of the Solar System
ABC News:
Is 'Luna Ring' the Energy Solution or Looney Pipe Dream?
Dvice:
Massive 35-pound book has 500 original Star Wars blueprints in it
Daily Mail:
Replicate! Replicate! Daleks return to London to stage famous scene from 1964 series
July 12, 2011
Space.com:
US Astronauts Make History With Last Spacewalk of Shuttle Era
New Scientist:
Cosmonaut: Soviet space shuttle was safer than NASA's
Space.com:
Comet's Death by Sun Photographed for First Time
NASA News:
Hubble's Neptune Anniversary Pictures
Daily Mail:
Micro-machines are go: The U.S. military drones that are so small they even look like insects
July 11, 2011
BBC:
In pictures: Wiltshire's summer crop circles
Space.com:
Amazing Balloon Photos Show Last Shuttle Launch From the Stratosphere
Discovery News:
An Intimate View of Life Onboard Atlantis: Photos
Universe Today:
Happy Anniversary, Neptune!
Wired:
July 11, 1979: Look Out Below! Here Comes Skylab!
July 9-10, 2011
Scientific American:
Truckin' Up to Low Earth Orbit--the Shuttle Era Is Go for History, Part 1
Scientific American:
Truckin' Up to Low Earth Orbit--Deadly Reality-Check: Challenger and Columbia, Part 2
Scientific American:
Truckin' Up to Low Earth Orbit, Part 3: The Shuttle Gives Science a Boost
NASA News:
Soaring Innovation: the Shuttle and Glenn
NASA News:
NASA Dryden and the Space Shuttles
Daily Mail:
Bees, frogs, monkeys and jellyfish... the weird and wonderful creatures that joined Nasa's shuttle programme over the years
Popular Science:
Ten Tech Innovations From NASA's Space Shuttle That Trickled Down to Non-Astronauts
New York Times:
As Shuttle Era Ends, Dreams of Space Linger
Innovation News:
Human Spaceflight Faces Uncertain Future
Innovation News:
Space Probe Swarms to Slam into Planets for Science
Dvice:
History in Ads: The many space planes that inspired the Shuttle
Space.com:
Space Planes: Evolution of the Winged Spaceship (Infographic)
Universe Today:
Launch Complex 37B: Level by Level
Scientific American:
Beasts of the Stellar Zoo [Slide Show]
Daily Mail:
The blot on Saturn's landscape that is actually an enormous thunderstorm that stretches for 10,600 miles
Universe Today:
3552 Don Quixote… Leaving Our Solar System?
New Scientist:
Distant light hints at size of space-time grains
Popular Science:
Terrafugia's 'Roadable Aircraft' Receives Regulatory Clearance Again, This Time for the Road
Universe Today:
Your Flying Car is Here
Gizmag:
Permanent spray-on antibacterial coating created
Daily Mail:
Artificially intelligent machines that can argue back with humans are 'just years away'
Daily Mail:
I think therefore I am (a monkey): Rhesus 'understand Descartes as they've same self-awareness that philosopher described'
Science Now:
Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools
Innovation News:
Kids Likely to Predict Future of Technology
Daily Mail:
Dawn of a new age: The first person to reach 150 is already alive... and soon we'll live to be a THOUSAND, claims scientist
Daily Mail:
World's only remaining 'Ghost Car' headed for auction... incredible images of the Plexiglas Pontiac expected to fetch almost $500,000
July 8, 2011
Daily Mail:
Did UFO cause power failure at nuclear missile base? Missile technicians claim sightings coincided with October outage
Jacksonville Journal Courier:
Crop circle draws wide interest
Space.com:
Photos of NASA's Last Space Shuttle Launch
Space.com:
Private Suborbital Spaceships to Launch Sky-High Research
NASA News:
Dawn Team Members Check out Spacecraft
July 7, 2011
Popular Science:
Is American Foot-Dragging Pushing the Future Elsewhere?
Scientific American:
The 10 Most Dangerous Moments in Space Shuttle and Station History
ESA News:
Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
Dvice:
Magic bag turns astronaut pee into sports drink
NASA Science News:
Does Asteroid Vesta Have a Moon?
July 6, 2011
Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Seattle History: The UFO sightings near Seattle
NASA News:
NASA's Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation
Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft Arrives at Arizona-Size Asteroid Next Week
Astrobiology Magazine:
Hydrogen Peroxide Found in Space
NASA News:
What's Next For NASA?
July 5, 2011
New York Times:
With the Shuttle Program Ending, Fears of Decline at NASA
New York Times:
Interactive Graphic: 30 Years of the Space Shuttle
Astrobiology Magazine:
Justin, the Remote-Controlled Space Android
Universe Today:
First Orion Assembled at Denver, Another Orion Displayed at Kennedy Space Center
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's Core is Melting and Freezing
Astrobiology Magazine:
Desert Varnish on Mars
Jacksonville Journal Courier:
Farmer finds crop circle, appreciates craftsmanship
July 2-4, 2011
Universe Today:
Burt Rutan's Race To Space: A Primer For Things To Come
Times of India:
Space travel for masses
Innovation News:
10 Future Public Transportation Vehicles
Daily Mail:
World's first flying motorbike: Helicopter pilot invents the 'hoverbike' in his garage
Dvice:
Flying cars go hybrid, still don't actually exist
GizMag:
Solar-Sinter 3D printer creates glass objects from sun and sand
GizMag:
Hexagonal plate skin gives robots sense of touch
Daily Mail:
Your number's up: Why mathematicians are campaigning for pi to be replaced with alternate value tau
Daily Mail:
Grammar? That's something a little bird told us: Finches master rules of sentence construction
GizMag:
Futuristic all-electric Ecco Camper concept from NAU
Dvice:
Handheld 'virtual cane' gives you the power of sonar vision
Dvice.com:
PossessedHand turns your hand into a remote controlled cyborg
Daily Mail:
Why social pressure causes people to form false memories
Astrobiology Magazine:
Pigments of the Past
Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs were hot-blooded creatures, claim scientists who measured their body temperatures for the first time
Daily Mail:
Out of Africa? New theory throws doubt on assumption all humans evolved from the continentrst time
Daily Mail:
515million-year-old fossils reveal prehistoric animals had far better vision than previously thought
July 1, 2011
NASA News:
NASA Dryden and the Space Shuttles
Innovation News:
End of Shuttle Era Opens Doors for Robotic Space Exploration
Space.com:
For Visits to Asteroid & Mars, NASA Needs New Ways to Do Everything
Space.com:
New Private Space Plane Has NASA Roots
Discovery News:
We May Not Live in a Hologram After All
Wired:
July 1, 1858: Darwin and Wallace Shift the Paradigm
June 30, 2011
Innovation News Daily:
Astronauts in Space to Explore Earth with Robots
Astrobiology Magazine:
Sulfurous Signs of Life
June 29, 2011
The Telegraph:
Britain's own Special Agent Mulder exposes his X files
Space.com:
Space Station's Brush with Space Junk Highlights Growing Threat
Space.com:
Countdown: 10 Amazing Space Shuttle Photos
Discovery News:
Space Shuttle Debuted Amid Unknown Dangers
Space.com:
50 Years of Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft: It All Started with Satellite Transit 4A
IEEE Spectrum:
A Fusion Thruster for Space Travel
Discovery News:
More Zero-Gravity Flights Available in 2012
Daily Mail:
Britain and the U.S. top league table of countries that would be worst affected by an asteroid strike
June 28, 2011
The Telegraph:
Top 10 UFO incidents in the UK
Daily Mail:
Man will have a close encounter with aliens within 20 years, predicts top astronomer
Daily Mail:
Astronauts evacuate Space Station to avoid space junk hurtling towards them
Spaceflight Now:
Station crew 'shelters in place' for debris threat
Discovery News:
Space Station Alert as Debris Makes 250 Meter Near Miss
Daily Mail:
Asteroid hurtles within 7,600 miles of Earth... three-and-a-half hours later than predicted by scientists who first thought it was a piece of space junk
Discovery News:
First Photos of Incoming Asteroid 2011 MD
Daily Mail:
Hovering hands free: Nasa's robotic lander prototype completes autonomous test flight
Space.com:
How the Space Shuttle Was Born
Smithsonian.com:
One Hundred Years Ago Today, A Mars Meteorite Fell in a Blaze
June 27, 2011
Space.com:
Will Newly Discovered Comet Dazzle or Disappoint in 2013?
Daily Mail:
Twice as fast as Concorde: The supersonic jet that will fly from London to New York in TWO HOURS
June 25-26, 2011
Innovation News:
Satellite Twins Aim to Map Moon's Gravity Field
Space.com:
5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids
Space.com:
Photos: Asteroids in Deep Space
NASA News:
Improving Slumber on the Space Station With Sleep-Long
GizMag:
The 2011 Paris Airshow in pictures
June 24, 2011
Discovery News:
When Asteroid '2011 MD' Zips Past Earth : Animation
Space.com:
Asteroid Mission Hints at Humanity's Past and Future
June 23, 2011
Space.com:
Earth Must Be Ready for Next Big Solar Storm
Universe Today:
Another Asteroid To Give Earth a Close Shave June 27, 2011
Space.com:
Spinning Robotic Landers Make Space Exploration a Hop and Skip
Daily Mail:
Did Mars have an ancient ocean? Remarkable images show teardrop-shaped islands which could have once been deep underwater
Space.com:
'Frankenstein' Spacecraft Seeks Geological Ghosts of Mars
Space.com:
Discovery Adds Mystery to Earth's Genesis
KyivPost:
Researcher: Moon may leave Earth orbit, turn into new planet
NPR:
How Much Water Is There On Earth? Magellan Would Be Shocked
Popular Science:
The Strongest Electrical Current in the Universe Spotted, 2 Billion Light Years From Here
Daily Mail:
Waterworld: Ice spray shooting out of Saturn moon points to a giant ocean lurking beneath its surface
Discovery News:
Enceladus May Possess Saltwater Ocean
Space.com:
Icy Saturn Moon May Be Covering a Salty Sea
Daily Mail:
Cosmic collision: The incredible galactic pile-up that has lasted 350million years
Daily Mail:
Humans really DO have a sixth sense... that lets us detect magnetic fields (and we're not aware we have it)
Daily Mail:
The origin of... On The Origin of Species: Going online, Darwin's scrawled notes which provide clues as to how he arrived at his ground-breaking theory
The Dew Line:
Meet the Civvie LEMV
June 22, 2011
Dvice:
10 real flying saucer designs that were made here on Earth
Universe Today:
MESSENGER Unveiling Mercury's Hidden Secrets
Daily Mail:
Bowing out: Remarkable pictures of space shuttle Discovery as she is stripped bare before final journey to Washington D.C.
TG Daily:
New type of aircraft flies like a UFO
The Sun:
Coat of arms crops up in field
June 21, 2011
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mercury's Surprises
Space.com:
Pluto's Mysterious Moons, Nix & Hydra, Turn 5
Daily Mail:
Orbital freighter prepares to crash and burn in ocean after undocking from space station
GizMag:
D-Dalus - an entirely new genre of aircraft arrives
Space.com:
Summer Solstice Stuff You Didn't Know
June 20, 2011
Daily Mail:
London to Tokyo in two hours: Blueprints for 3,000mph hypersonic plane are unveiled... but it will take 40 years to build
Space.com:
Newfound Comet Will Swing By Earth in 2013
NASA News:
Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene
Space.com:
The Greatest Mysteries of Venus
Space.com:
Huge Heat Shield Has Huge Task: Protecting NASA's Next Mars Rover
Astrobiology Magazine:
Recycling Water in Space
Space.com:
What If Our Solar System Had Formed Closer to the Milky Way's Edge?
June 18-19, 2011
Astrobiology Magazine:
Voyager on the Edge
Daily Mail:
Incredible images from Nasa probe reveal Mercury surface is mix of lava plains, giant craters and sulphur
Astrobiology Magazine:
COROT Finds Exoplanet Diversity
Universe Today:
Exomoons Could Be Excellent Incubators
New York Times:
U.T. Experiment Grapples With Essence of Gravity
June 17, 2011
Discovery News:
Which Near-Earth Asteroid Should We Visit?
Discovery News:
Space Station Robot Lands a Job
Astrobiology Magazine:
July Rendezvous with Vesta
Innovation News:
Ten Military Aircraft that Never Made it Past the Test Phase
Daily Mail:
Happy 100th Birthday IBM! The original computer giant reaches milestone (and it's still bigger than Google and Apple)
June 16, 2011
Discovery News:
Did the Nazis Have a Space Program?
Space.com:
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe May Exit Solar System Next Year
New York Times:
Close Up, Mercury Is Looking Less Boring
Spaceflight Now:
Nearly 400 satellite crash notices sent to Russia, China
Daily Mail:
Earth facing a mini-Ice Age 'within ten years' due to rare drop in sunspot activity
Space.com:
How the Sun's 11-Year Solar Cycle Works
Popular Science:
Japanese Museum Unveils A Giant Globe Made of 10,000 Live-Updating OLED Panels
Daily Mail:
Meet the neighbours! Spectacular image shows 50,000 galaxies in the nearby universe
Astrobiology Magazine:
Twin Planets Orbit Star Pair
Spaceflight Now:
X-ray telescope spots baby black holes in early universe
Weird Asian News:
Indonesian Crop Circles: Was A UFO Responsible?
June 15, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Roswell UFO museum's fascinating space
Astrobiology Magazine:
Drop in Sun's Activity Expected
Discovery News:
Is the Sun About to Fizz Out?
Space.com:
10 New Alien Planets a Diverse Bunch, Telescope Shows
Universe Today:
New Planetary System Has South African Astronomers Doing A Double Take
Universe Today:
Stellar Super Soaker
Daily Mail:
Are we on the verge of the science-fiction Holy Grail? Researchers 'one step closer' to finding out why matter dominates the universe
June 14, 2011
Discovery News:
Mars Hit By Cosmic Buckshot, Again
Space.com:
The Greatest Mysteries of Mercury
Daily Mail:
Why we are all X-men: Scientists discover 60 new genetic mutations in EVERY person
Astrobiology Magazine:
Why We Don't See in Infrared
Daily Mail:
How will they keep the bugs off the windscreen? Airbus unveil the transparent plane we'll be flying around in come 2050 (but maybe not those with a fear of flying)
Innovation News:
Inventor Begins Testing a 'Star Wars' Hoverbike
June 13, 2011
Wired:
June 13, 1983: Pioneer 10 Reaches an End … and a Beginning
Space.com:
5 Facts About NASA's Far-Flung Voyager Spacecraft
MSNBC:
How Apollo 8 changed our planetary perspective
National Geographic:
Star Found Shooting Water "Bullets"
June 11-12, 2011
Discovery News:
The Mystery and Beauty of Noctilucent Clouds : Photos
June 10, 2011
Daily Mail:
Are we aliens on our own planet? Meteorite suggests life's building blocks evolved in space
Space.com:
Cosmic Cookers: Asteroids May Have Nurtured Seeds of Life
Daily Mail:
Deep space probes find our solar system is protected by 'magnetic bubble wrap'
Discovery News:
Voyager: Solar System Edge is Bubbly and 'Frothy'
Scientific American:
What Would Happen If Earth and Mars Switched Places?
Dvice:
24 amazing images from Space Shuttle Endeavour's last ride
June 9, 2011
This is Wiltshire:
More circles cropping up in Marlborough area
Space.com:
Seeing Things On Mars: A History of Martian Illusions
Space.com:
500-Day Mock Mission to Mars Passes One-Year Mark
Space.com:
Ups and Downs: How to Launch a Student Balloon Into the Stratosphere
Discovery News:
Life on Mars Best Bets: Photos
Discovery News:
Could Saturn's Moon Enceladus Nurture Alien Life?
San Jose Mercury:
Today's alien invaders out for blood
Space.com:
What Makes an Alien Encounter Movie Believable?
June 8, 2011
Wired:
Rover Recon: Mars Images Track Changes and Landing Sites
June 7, 2011
Space.com:
Australian Government Loses All Its UFO Files
Discovery News:
Mini Spy Satellites to Track Terrorists
Columbus Repbulic:
Reaching for the stars: It's alive out there! Scientists seek out the evidence
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News:
Biotechnology Instruments Being Used to Detect Alien Life
Spaceflight Now:
Photo Gallery: Endeavour docked at space station
Daily Mail:
Antimatter in a bottle: Scientists stabilise the staple of science fiction disasters for 16 whole minutes
June 6, 2011
Design Engineer Magazine:
Unmanned autonomous airborne vehicles get a lift
Space.com:
In Hunt for Alien Planets, Frustration Lingers Over Canceled Missions
Spaceflight Now:
Spirit's last dispatches from Mars
PhysOrg:
Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission
Space.com:
Edge of Solar System Filled with Bubbles, NASA Says
June 4-5, 2011
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Are people the point?
Daily Mail:
Danish amateur space race blasts off as enthusiasts launch 30ft, 1.6 ton rocket five miles into the atmosphere
Space.com:
Danish Amateurs Launch Homemade Rocket, Aim for Future Spaceflight
NASA News:
Opportunity Passes Small Crater and Big Milestone
Astrobiololgy Magazine:
Gleise's Hints of Habitability
BBC News:
Moons like Earth's could be more common than we thought
PhysOrg:
New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass
Discovery News:
Fermilab's 'Bump Hunters' See Hints of New Particle
Innovation News:
Robotic Hummingbird UAV Flies Out of DARPA Lab
Popular Science:
NASA's Next-Gen Spacesuit Could Have an In-Helmet Display
Popular Science:
Archive Gallery: How the Space Age Influenced Design
Wall Street Journal:
Houdini, Crop Circles and the Need to Believe
June 3, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald:
Our 'Roswell' now one for the history books
Daily Mail:
So, where's the ignition switch? Endeavour's mind-boggling cockpit controls revealed in all their glory
Space.com:
Best Gravity Map Yet Shows a Lumpy, Bumpy Earth
Discovery News:
Sooner, Not Later: Interstellar Voyages a Reality?
Innovation News:
10 Building Materials from the Future
June 2, 2011
Space.com:
Space-Time Ripples: How Scientists Could Detect Gravity Waves
Daily Mail:
The end of Endeavour: Shuttle touches down on Earth after final space mission
Discovery News:
Could U.S. Manned Spaceflight Suffer 'Memory Loss'?
Washington Post:
'Worms from hell' unearth possibilities for extraterrestrial life
June 1, 2011
Universe Today:
Voyager 1 Measures Magnetic Mayhem
Space.com:
Spaceflight May Compromise Immune System, Study Finds
Discovery News:
Project Icarus: The Gas Mines of Uranus
Discovery News:
Arsenic Life: Fact or Fiction?
May 31, 2011
Deccan Herald:
Celebrating Mariner's magic
Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Mariner 9 Heads For Mars
May 28-29-30, Memorial Day Weekend, 2011
Daily Mail:
'The pinnacle of human achievement': Final spacewalkers of Nasa's 30-year shuttle mission complete construction of International Space Station
New York Times:
Final Goodbye to a Mars Explorer
Discovery News:
Ode to Mars Rover Spirit: Photos
USA Today:
Mars and moon mauled early on
Science Magazine:
Who Needs a Moon?
May 27, 2011
Innovation News:
12 Space Shuttle Missions That Weren't
Space.com:
For Spacewalking Astronauts, Itchy Eyes Are One Pain of Many
Discovery News:
Skylon Spaceplane Finally Gets Approval
Space.com:
Why NASA Chose Potentially Threatening Asteroid for New Mission
Daily Mail:
Moon may have as much water as earth scientists find after studying 1972 Apollo samples
Discovery News:
Inner Moon as Wet as Earth
Space.com:
Moon's Interior Wet As Earth's, Rocks Indicate
Space.com:
Star's Green Crystal 'Rain' May Solve Comet Mystery
Space.com:
Suborbital Rocket Launches Human Remains, Wedding Rings into Space
Daily Mail:
Scientists unveil most complete EVER map of the universe that extends to 380 million lightyears away
New Scientist:
Arsenic-based bacteria: Fact or fiction?
Science Magazine:
Concerns Aired About Arsenic-Containing Bacteria
Washington Post:
Debate over arsenic-based life enters a new chapter
Houston Chronicle:
Arsenic-life discoverers stand by their claims
Innovation News Daily:
10 Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True
May 26, 2011
Daily Mail:
Mission to Mars one step closer as Nasa unveil four-man craft that will take astronauts on 49million-mile journey
Stuff NZ:
NASA abandons Mars rover Spirit
Discovery News:
Mars Formed Fast, Stayed Small
Space.com:
Mars Formed Fast in Massive Early Growth Spurt
May 25, 2011
Daily Mail:
How the Japanese plan to turn the moon into a mirrorball: All of Earth's energy 'to be supplied by lunar ring of solar panels'
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Down: Spirit is Dead
Spaceflight Now:
NASA closes book on Spirit rover's historic mission
Discovery News:
Kepler's Insight to Physical Nature of Planetary Systems
May 24, 2011
Discovery News:
Shuttle Endeavour, Space Station Make History: Photo
Washington Post:
One-way ticket to Mars
The Register:
ESA: British Skylon spaceplane seems perfectly possible
Discovery News:
Lunar Lander Made with 'Home Depot Engineering'
Astrobiology Magazine:
Earth's Past, Made Visible
Time:
Scouring Space for Life: More Earths Out There than We Thought?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems
New Scientist:
Milky Way faces mid-life crisis
Hubble Site News:
Hubble Views the Star that Changed the Universe
PhysOrg:
Universe's not-so-missing mass
Universe Today:
Want to Make Planets? Better Hurry.
Universe Today:
Kepler Team Announces New Rocky Planet
Universe Today:
Insanely Awesome Raw Cassini Images of Titan and Enceladus
May 23, 2011
Space.com:
Alien Solar Systems Are Much Different Than Our Own
PhysOrg:
New arm discovered in outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy
PhysOrg:
Just four percent of galaxies have neighbors like the Milky Way
PhysOrg:
Black holes spinning faster than ever before
May 21-22, 2011
Ekathimerini.com:
Greek astrophysicist explains Messenger mission to Mercury
Wired:
Milky Way Galaxy Has Mirrorlike Symmetry
May 20, 2011
Daily Mail:
Once-in-a-generation storm batters Saturn and offers scientists an unprecedented view
Innovation News:
Beer for Space Tourists: More Taste, Fewer Wet Burps
May 19, 2011
Time:
6 UFO Hot Spots Around the World
Sydney Morning Herald:
Water worlds
Discovery News:
Dark Energy Is Real: Claim
Discovery News:
Black Hole Driven Starships Might Ply the Galaxy
May 18, 2011
Toronto Star:
Roswell crash was Stalin plot to create mass panic, book says
Daily Mail:
Solar storms will peak in 2013 and wreak havoc on Earth's electrical communications, top scientist warns
Wired:
Ignored Exoplanet May Be a Watery World
NASA News:
Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars
Space.com:
Lonely Rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Planets with Suns
Scientific American:
Free Worlds: Billions of Extra-Stellar Planetary Bodies May Be Adrift in the Galaxy
Space.com:
How Earth's Magnetic Field Would Look from Space
Innovation News:
Future Drones to Sport Insect Eyes, Vertical Takeoff and Automatic Landings
Kansas City Star:
National Geographic Channel show ponders the possibility of an alien attack
May 17, 2011
Bloomberg:
Roswell Martians May Have Been Deformed Nazi Kids Sent by Stalin: Review
Daily Mail:
Just 20 light years away: Scientists discover first planet outside our solar system that could support Earth-like life
Discovery News:
Gliese 581d: An Exoplanet Fit for Humans?
The Telegraph:
Missions to Mars: a rocky road to the Red Planet
Discovery News:
Strange Objects in Space: Photos
May 16, 2011
The Telegraph:
Roswell 'was Soviet plot to create US panic'
Space.com:
NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on Final Voyage
Daily Mail:
Pictured: The inhospitable terrain where Nasa hopes to land new Mars Rover in hunt for extraterrestrial life
Discovery News:
'Satellite on a Chip' to Launch with Space Shuttle
Discovery News:
Bobtail Squid Hitches a Ride on Space Shuttle
New York Times:
A Military Post's Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens
Wired:
May 16, 1960: Researcher Shines a Laser Light
May 14-15, 2011
Space.com:
Shuttle Endeavour By The Numbers: NASA's 19-Year-Old Space Baby
NASA News:
Moon's Rough 'Wrinkles' Reveal Clues To Its Past
Daily Mail:
Revealed: How mini black holes pass through the Earth daily without causing any damage
Discovery News:
Last Line of Asteroid Impact Defense: Evacuation
May 13, 2011
Discovery News:
Could Kepler Detect Alien Artifacts?
The Register:
Haumea: Mysterious radioactive rugby-ball world
Spaceflight Now:
Docking, extended space missions up next for China
Space.com:
How to Clean Up Space Junk: DARPA's Orbital Catcher's Mitt
Astrobiology Magazine:
Setting Sight on a Single Star
Wired:
Tiny Iron Spheres Are Oldest Fossilized Space Dust
Space.com:
How Lightning Sparks High-Energy Bursts in the Atmosphere
This Is Wiltshire:
Last straw for Avebury farmer
May 12, 2011
Astrobiology Magazine:
Detecting Wandering Worlds That Host Life
Space.com:
How Rogue Alien Planets Could Host Extraterrestrial Life
Discovery News:
Could Atmospheric Hydrogen Incubate Alien Life?
NASA News:
Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon
Space.com:
Internal Fire Bakes Jupiter's Pizza Moon Io
Space.com:
Weird Alien Planets Stuck in Backwards Orbits Explained
Space.com:
What's 96 Percent of the Universe Made Of? Astronomers Don't Know
Spaceflight Now:
Intelsat: 'Around the clock' effort to budge stuck antenna
NASA News:
The Sabatier System: Producing Water on the Space Station
Daily Mail:
The (entire) sky at night: Photographer travels 60,000 miles in a year to compile stunning panorama of the Milky Way
The Telegraph:
QI: Quite interesting facts about the solar system
May 11, 2011
NASA News:
NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid
Space.com:
4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Yields New Mineral
May 10, 2011
Daily Mail:
Eye in the sky: The flying robot intelligence system set to replace the CCTV camera
Daily Mail:
One giant dip for mankind: Nasa simulates journey to an asteroid by rigging up giant rock underwater
Discovery News:
Project Icarus: An Interstellar Mission Timeline
Discovery News:
Boat Would Sail on Saturn's Moon Sea
Spaceflight Now:
NASA plans test of advanced nuclear power generator
May 9, 2011
KDFW:
Tex Files: Stephenville UFOs
Messenger News:
100 Orbits and Counting
The Register:
NASA shortlists three contenders for next robo-probe mission
Astrobiology Magazine:
Three Missions Compete for 2016 Discovery
Space.com:
Ugly Truth of Space Junk: Orbital Debris Problem to Triple by 2030
Spaceflight Now:
Beginning a new generation of missile early-warning
Space.com:
U.S. Military Launches New Missile Warning Satellite Into Space
Space.com:
Saturn's Moon Titan May Have Been Planetary Punching Bag
Universe Today:
A Cometary Case for Titan's Atmosphere
May 7-8, 2011
Mail Tribune:
Did a nuclear catastrophe wipe out life on Mars?
PhysOrg:
Paper announces discovery of one of earliest minerals formed in solar system
National Geographic:
How Hydrogen May Expand the Search for Alien Life
National Geographic:
Photos: Space Suit Evolution Since First NASA Flight
ZME Science:
25 Amazingly awesome images of crop circles
May 6, 2011
Space.com:
Alan Shepard's Space Race: Soviet Victory Frustrated First American in Space
Discovery News:
Alan Shepard: America's First Spaceman: Photos
Space.com:
Satellite Launch on Friday to Boost U.S. Missile Defense
Space.com:
China's First Space Station: A New Foothold in Earth Orbit
Space.com:
How China's First Space Station Will Work (Infographic)
Space.com:
Space Tourist Trips Around the Moon Get Roomier Spaceship
Discovery News:
Gravity Probe B Says Einstein was Right. Again.
Mercury News:
Planetary insight leaps to new orbit
Discovery News:
How Many Intelligent Aliens are Out There?
Innovation News:
10 Wildest Tries to Contact Aliens
May 5, 2011
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Space Tourist Ship Passes Major Flight Test
CBC News:
Spain stands in for Mars in spacesuit test
International Business Times:
Mars Space Gear Tested Out (PHOTOS)
U.S. News and World Report:
Mystery Force May Be Due To Mirrors
National Geographic News:
Dense, Hot Super-Earth Is "New Class of Planet"
Spaceflight Now:
Einstein's relativity theory survives test in space
May 4, 2011
NASA News:
Dawn Reaches Milestone Approaching Asteroid Vesta
Space.com:
America's First Spaceship: Project Mercury (Infographic)
Space.com:
Space Souvenir Auction to Mark Birth of U.S. Spaceflight
Universe Today:
Stealth Unmanned Combat Vehicle Makes First Flight
Innovation News:
Military Aims to Track Ballistic Missiles with Tiny Satellites
NASA News:
Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall
Space.com:
Big Asteroid's Approach in November Excites Astronomers
Discovery News:
Did Some Black Holes Survive the Big Bang?
NASA Science:
NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment
Discovery News:
Keck's Twin Lasers Cut Through Night Sky : Big Pics
Ashland Daily Tidings:
What happened to Mars?
New Scientist:
Push to define year sparks time war
May 3, 2011
Daily Mail:
It's that time again: The first crop circle of the season appears in historic Wiltshire field
Space.com:
Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved
Space.com:
All Signs Point to Hidden Ocean on Saturn Moon Titan
Space.com:
Skywatching Guide: Meteor Showers of 2011
May 2, 2011
Universe Today:
Behind the Scenes at SpaceX's Space Launch Complex 40
Daily Mail:
It's an Earth, but not as we know it: Remarkable new find 'holds key' to planet evolution
April 30 / May 1, 2011
Discovery News:
Super-Civilizations Might Live Off Black Holes
Arizona Republic:
Ringed Saturn sparkles in May
Wired:
Groupthink Not a Problem in Simulated Mars Mission
April 29, 2011
Shawanjunk Journal:
The UFO Phenomenon
NASA News:
Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
NASA Science:
Voyager, The Love Story
Space.com:
Four Companies at Forefront of Commercial Space Race
Discovery News:
SpaceX Video of Powered Dragon Mars Landing
Space.com:
Shuttle Launch to Carry Experimental Cracker-Size Satellites Into Orbit
NASA News:
Materials: Out of This World
Scientific American:
The Space Station's Crown Jewel
Science Daily:
Astronomers Unveil Portrait of 'Exotic Super-Earth:' Densest Known Rocky Planet
Life's Little Mysteries:
Infographic: How the Shuttle Endeavour Was Built from Spare Parts
Astronomy Magazine:
Were "spinstars" the first polluters of the universe?
Wired:
Still Searching: SETI Pioneer Jill Tarter Talks Shutdown, Aliens
IEEE Spectrum:
Nick Sagan on the Legacy of Voyager
IEEE Spectrum:
String Theory Made Easy
April 28, 2011
International Business Times:
Artifact, Tiny Satellites Headed To Space With Endeavour
NASA News:
Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission
Discovery News:
Device on Shuttle to Investigate Radiation Shield
Discovery News:
Russian Resistance to SpaceX Dragon Docking
Space.com:
Next Giant Leap for Space Tourism: A Trip Around the Moon
Space.com:
Scientists Itching for Suborbital Space Research
Discovery News:
Space Telescopes Spot Asteroid Collision Debris
Canton Repository:
Jackson man's space discovery lands him on History Channel
April 27, 2011
South Hill Enterprise:
45 years later, officials recall possible UFO sighting in South Hill
South Wales Argus:
Chepstow crop circle astonishes drivers
USA Today:
Space tourism comes closer to liftoff
Space.com:
First Space Tourist: How a U.S. Millionaire Bought a Ticket to Orbit
April 26, 2011
Space.com:
Antimatter-Hunting Experiment Ready for Space Mission
Farmington Daily Times:
Spaceport will offer flights from $200K
IEEE Spectrum:
The Scientist as Space Tourist
Ixinhuanet.com:
Countdown begins for China's space station program
Space.com:
Alien Bacteria Could Breed in Extreme 'Hypergravity'
Discovery News:
Is Time Travel Possible?
April 25, 2011
Space.com:
Future of Space Tourism: Who's Offering What
Aol News:
NASA Solar Sail Is the 'Little Satellite That Could'
Spaceflight Now:
NASA deems rockets less critical in private space race
Scientific American:
Budget crunch mothballs telescopes built to search for alien signals
Time:
Mars' Frozen Ocean of Carbon Dioxide
Universe Today:
More Surprises From Pluto
PhysOrg:
Chemists fabricate 'impossible' material
PhysOrg:
Solar power goes viral: Modified virus improves solar-cell efficiency by one-third
The Times Of India:
Extraterrestrial
April 23-24, 2011
New York Times:
With 'Coolest Job Ever' Ending, Astronauts Seek Next Frontier
The Register:
ET, phone back: Alien quest seeks earthling coders
Time:
E.T., Call Us Back! Making the Case for Alien Life
Discovery News:
SpaceX Aims to Put Man on Mars in 10-20 Years
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Tourist Spaceship Makes Longest Test Flight Yet
Space.com:
No Sex in Space, Yet, Official Says
April 22, 2011
Space.com:
Did the Universe Begin As a Simple 1-D Line?
Space.com:
Asteroid or Planet? NASA Aims to Settle Vesta Debate
Daily Mail:
The Red Dust Bowl: Scientists reveal how hostile storms once raged across Mars
New York Times:
'What on Earth' Probes Mysteries of Crop Circles
April 21, 2011
Aol News:
University Prof Calls for Congressional UFO Hearing
Discovery News:
Mars Mission Simluation Planned for ISS
Daily News:
Early universe may have had ONE dimension not three... and now we know how to prove it, say scientists
NASA News:
NASA Orbiter Reveals Big Changes in Mars' Atmosphere
Space.com:
Mars' Thick Dry Ice Sheet Points to Planet's Wetter Past
Space.com:
Secretive Spaceship Builder's Plans Hinted at in NASA Agreement
April 20, 2011
Aol News:
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Took UFOs Seriously, Documents Suggest
NASA News:
NASA's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with 'Rose' of Galaxies
Discovery News:
Pluto's Atmosphere: Big, Poisonous and Comet-like
Space.com:
One Possible Small Step Toward Mars Landing: A Martian Moon
Space.com:
Icy Moon Creates Extra Northern Lights on Saturn
Science Daily:
Another Universe Tugging on Ours? Maybe Not: Data from Exploding Stars Contradicts Earlier Study
Science Daily:
New Theory of Evolution for Spiral Galaxy Arms
The Register:
Spyeye sperm-blimp in US flight trials
April 19, 2011
Wired:
This Day In Tech -- April 19, 1971: Soviets Put First Space Station Into Orbit
Discovery News:
SpaceX Pledges Space Taxi in 3 Years
Discovery News:
Conventional Propulsion to Support an Interstellar Probe
Space.com:
Pluto's Atmosphere Found Poisonous and Surprisingly High
April 18, 2011
Aol News:
The JFK-UFO Connection: Bogus Documents or Unanswered Questions?
Contra Costa Times:
UFOs reported in Inland Valley day before Roswell
Spaceflight Now:
Observers confirm identity of last week's Atlas payload
Spaceflight Now:
NASA awards $269 million for commercial crew program
s
Space.com:
Big Test Looms for British Space Plane Concept
Universe Today:
Kepler Discovers a Rare Triple Gem
Discovery News:
Does ET Speak Neutrino?
Universe Today:
Antigravity Could Replace Dark Energy as Cause of Universe's Expansion
April 16-17, 2011
Daily Mail:
Cigar-shaped asteroid stronger than '15 atomic bombs' whizzes by earth
Philadelphia Inquirer:
It's likely that humans are far from alone
Discovery News:
Blobs In Space Yield Mystery and Wonder
Discovery News:
Henrietta Swan Leavitt Comes to Life on Stage
Yahoo News/AFP:
'Royal star' was a supernova, say astronomers
April 15, 2011
Hawkes Bay Today:
UFOs in the BAY: The files
Space.com:
WAPT:
Author Researches Flora UFO Sightings
Smithsonian News:
Ten Enduring Myths About the U.S. Space Program
Space.com:
Citizen Scientists Help Find Alien Planets
Space.com:
New U.S. Spy Satellite Launches on Clandestine Mission
Space.com:
Long Shot: NASA Contractor Could Keep Flying Space Shuttles
Space.com:
DARPA Wants Telescopes to Protect Military Satellites From Space Junk
April 14, 2011
Open Minds:
The Real Story of the FBI UFO X-Files
Space.com:
DARPA Wants Telescopes to Protect Military Satellites From Space Junk
Life's Little Mysteries:
How Much Are NASA's Space Shuttles Worth?
Space.com:
Retired Navy Admiral to Lead Commercial Spaceflight Federation
Daily Mail:
Scientists 'prove' that time travel will always be impossible by building a toy version of the Big Bang
Astrobiology Magazine:
Titan-like Exoplanets
University of Buffalo:
Another Universe Tugging On Ours? Maybe Not, UB Researchers Say
Daily Mail:
First commercial jetpack is 'just months away' after record-breaking seven-minute test flight
April 13, 2011
Aol News:
FBI's UFO Doc From 'The Vault' Most Likely a Hoax
National Geographic News:
Yuri Gagarin: First Human Space Flight in Pictures
Space.com:
Private Rocket Firm Under Pressure to Fill Space Shuttle Void
Space.com:
Space Plane Era Won't End With NASA's Shuttle Retirement
Space.com:
NASA Gives Space Shuttles to Smithsonian and Museums in Calif., Florida and NYC
The Register:
Russian Vostok capsule sells for $2.9m
Science Daily:
Volcanoes Reveal the Cooling of Mars
Space.com:
Alien Worlds Could Circle Dying White Dwarf Stars
NASA News:
NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy
ESA News:
Herschel links star formation to sonic booms
MIT Technology Review:
Orbiting Dust Storm Could Remove Space Junk
Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics:
Far-Future Astronomers Could Still Deduce the Big Bang
New Scientist:
New low for NASA's beleaguered space telescope
April 12, 2011
ESA News:
"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"
Daily Mail:
'The main thing is that there is sausage': Yuri Gagarin's extraordinary last words before making history with first manned space flight 50 years ago today
Discovery News:
Gagarin's Glitch-Prone Historic Flight
Discovery News:
'First Orbit' Reveals What Yuri Saw
New Scientist:
Yuri Gagarin: 108 minutes in space
New Scientist:
Nine more heroes of human spaceflight
Wired:
Unsung Soviet Shuttle Program Doesn't Get Star Treatment
Wired:
Soviet Space Propaganda: Doctored Cosmonaut Photos
ESA Hubble News:
First galaxies were born much earlier than expected
Scientific American:
At Heaven's Gate: 50 Years After Humans First Reached Space, What Frontiers Remain?
April 11, 2011
The Guardian:
FBI destroyed thousands of UFO reports, 1949 memo reveals
Yahoo/Associated Press:
First man in space: A 50-year-old feat remembered
Yahoo/Associated Press:
Cosmonaut: Russia needs space innovation now
Space.com:
6 Surprising Facts About the First Human Spaceflight
IEEE Spectrum:
Twenty Myths About Gagarin's Spaceflight
Space.com:
Is Space Tourism the New Space Race?
National Geographic:
New Aurora Pictures: Deep-Sky Lights Revealed
Daily Mail:
The extraordinary image of a large sunspot emitting cascades of glowing gas
Astrobiology Magazine:
Two Dying Stars Reborn as One
NASA News:
The MELFI Shuffle: Contingency Planning for Preserving Samples
Caltech News:
Physicists Discover New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
MIT Technology Review:
Planets Could Orbit Singularities Inside Black Holes
April 10, 2011
Yahoo News/Associated Press:
First man in space: A 50-year-old feat remembered
PhysOrg News:
Russia releases Gagarin's secret last words
Astrobiology Magazine:
Asteroid is Earth's Companion
April 9, 2011
Daily Mail:
The memo that 'proves aliens landed at Roswell'... released online by the FBI
Salt Lake Tribune:
New FBI 'vault' discusses Utah UFOs, other secrets
Space.com:
Spaceships of the World: 50 Years of Human Spaceflight
April 8, 2011
Yahoo News/AFP:
50 years after Gagarin, US space flight sputters
Space.com:
Space Race: Could the U.S. Have Beaten the Soviets Into Space?
Space.com:
The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records
AOL News:
Triangular UFOs: Close Encounters With Unidentified Dorito-Shaped Objects
Scientific American:
A Lovely Swirl: Orbiter Spots a Shifting Vortex at Venus's South Pole
NASA News:
New Theory: Titan Shaped By Weather, Not Ice Volcanoes
New Scientist:
Crater 'ghost' on fresh-faced Titan
MIT News:
Cold asteroids may have a soft heart
Wired:
Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going
Imperial College London:
Sugar-grain sized meteorites rocked the climates of early Earth and Mars, according to new study
New Scientist:
Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at 'technicolour' force
Discovery News:
What Has the Tevatron Really Discovered?
NASA News:
Dawn Approaches Asteroid Vesta
Stuff NZ:
Scientists Test Space Beer
Washingotn Post:
Marc Kaufman's "First Contact," on alien life
MIT Technology Review:
Interstellar Predation Could Explain Fermi Paradox
April 7, 2011
Discovery News:
What Do You Say to An Alien?
The Collegian:
UFO sightings hover around Hillsdale
The Economist:
Talking To The Neighbors
Space.com:
Giant Leaps: Top Milestones of Human Spaceflight
Space.com:
How the First Human Spaceflight Worked (Infographic)
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Private SpaceShipTwo Soars Over San Francisco
Daily Mail:
Futuristic fly-by: Wing-to-wing, Virgin's spaceship and Airbus soar over San Francisco en route to new 238m airport terminal
University Of Alabama At Birmingham -- UAB News:
Deep-space travel could create heart woes for astronauts
April 6, 2011
Life's Little Mysteries:
5 Surprising Facts About the First Manned Space Mission
Life's Little Mysteries:
FAQ: The Maiden Voyage of the Space Shuttle
Space.com:
Huge Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November
Discovery News:
Has the Tevatron Discovered New Physics?
Space.com:
Huge Private Rocket Could Send Astronauts to the Moon or Mars
Space.com:
Russian Spaceship 'Gagarin' Arrives at Space Station
Daily Mail:
The Milky Way as you've never seen it before: Incredible 360-degree panorama reveals the majesty of our galaxy
Daily Mail:
That was close! Space junk flies past International Space Station after astronauts spent 11 hours on alert
Space.com:
Space Junk Threat Will Grow for Astronauts and Satellites
Spaceflight Now:
Where did the Lacrosse 2 radar-imaging satellite go?
Space.com:
4.5-Billion-Year-Old Antarctic Meteorite Yields New Mineral
Discovery News:
Using Fusion to Propel an Interstellar Probe
April 5, 2011
Space.com:
Space Junk Threat Forces Space Station Crew to Take Shelter
Space.com:
Science Shortfalls Limit NASA's Human Spaceflight Ambitions
Spaceflight Now:
Rising launch costs could curtail NASA science missions
Space.com:
SpaceX Unveils Plan for World's Most Powerful Private Rocket
Discovery News:
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket: Shortcut to Mars?
Daily Mail:
Russian rocket Soyuz blasts off for International Space Station with U.S. astronaut aboard
Boston Globe:
NASA's humanoid robot unveiled on space station
Yahoo News/Associated Press:
After delay, NASA preparing Mars rover for launch
The Register:
Russia, NASA to hold talks on nuclear-powered spacecraft
Astrobiology Magazine:
Poison Could Have Set the Stage for Life
The Economist:
Radio Telescopes Big Astronomy
April 4, 2011
Aol News:
Doughnut-Shaped UFOs Most Likely Weather Formations
Space.com:
Russia Honors First Man in Space With Rocket Launch
Life's Little Mysteries:
New Account of a Russian Cosmonaut's Death Rife with Errors
Space.com:
Russian Rocket Launches New Space Station Crew Into Orbit
Space.com:
NASA Delays Launch of Shuttle Endeavour by 10 Days to Avoid Space Traffic Jam
Space.com:
Russia Weighs Glitches With Digital Soyuz Spaceship
The Register:
Supply ships used to push ISS clear of sat-smash debris
Astrobiology Magazine:
Getting to Mars Means Stopping and Landing
MSN News UK:
UFOs, astronauts' toothbrushes and the space traffic police
Astrobiology Magazine:
Looking into the Sun's Future
April 3, 2011
Discovery News:
Secret Military Spaceplane Struts its Stuff
April 2, 2011
Daily Mail:
Space giant on the move: Russia prepares to launch mighty Soyuz into space ahead of 50th anniversary of Gagarin's first manned flight
April 1, 2011
Fox News:
Was There a Natural Nuclear Blast on Mars?
Life's Little Mysteries:
The Fallen Heroes of Human Spaceflight
Astrobiology Magazine:
Keeping Astronauts Safe from Meteroids
Discovery News:
What Happens to Snails in Space?
Discovery News:
Asteroid Forensics May Point to Alien Space Miners
March 31, 2011
Cleveland Daily Banner:
WRIGHT WAY: Are UFOs real?
Stuff NZ:
Defence Wants UFOs Off Its Radar
NASA News:
Spring is Fireball Season
Daily Mail:
Historic images as Messenger sends back first pictures of Mercury's surface from orbit
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Images of Mercury Just the Beginning
Space.com:
Mutant Microbes Test Space Radiation Resistance
Space.com:
Scarred by Comets: Rings of Saturn and Jupiter Show Signs of Impacts
Daily Mail:
Same planet, same view, so why do these Russian satellite images of Earth look so different to Nasa's?
The Register:
Scientists eye curvaceous Earth gravity map
Daily Mail:
Potato Earth: Gravity satellite reveals what our planet REALLY looks like
Astrobiology Magazine:
Searching for Alien Life? Try Failed Stars
March 30, 2011
Spaceflight Now:
MESSENGER's images tell the tale of mysterious Mercury
Discovery News:
MESSENGER: First Photos from Mercury Orbit : Slide Show
National Geographic:
NASA's First Pictures of Mercury Taken From Orbit
Daily Mail:
Why haven't you called? Mars rover fails to phone Earth in over a year and now Nasa fears it is lost for ever
Space.com:
Endeavour Shuttle Astronauts Arrive in Florida for Launch Practice
Space.com:
Ice on Mercury? NASA Probe May Solve That Mystery and Others
Sutff NZ:
Meteor Explodes Over North Island
Space.com:
Saturn Returns to Earth's Evening Sky
Science Daily:
Astrophysicist: White Dwarfs Could Be Fertile Ground for Other Earths
Christianity Today:
Future Christian Film: Christian Aliens?
March 29, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft Snaps 1st Photo of Mercury from Orbit
Discovery News:
Meet Kepler's Entire Exoplanet Family : Big Pic
NASA News:
When is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid?
Associated Press:
NASA: Mars rover, phone home after yearlong sleep
Space.com:
Are You There, Spirit? NASA's Stuck Mars Rover Passes a Year in Silence
Discovery News:
Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent
Spaceflight Now:
Stacking of final shuttle rocket boosters underway
Space.com:
Astronauts Fold 'Extraterrestrial' Origami Cranes for Japan Disaster Victims
Discovery News:
Space Will Make You Cranky and Euphoric
Spaceflight Now:
Japan's HTV cargo freighter proves useful to the end
The Register:
Europe to get space radiation-storm warning service
Space.com:
Museums Make Final Pitches for Retired Space Shuttles
Space.com:
New Glue Stays Sticky Even In Outer Space
Omaha World-Herald:
UFO and paranormal focus of symposium
Aol News:
Military Expert: The World Could Never Survive a Real 'Battle: Los Angeles'
MIT News:
A new spin on superconductivity?
March 28, 2011
Space.com:
'Satellite Phone' to Record Fiery Death of Japanese Robot Spaceship
Spaceflight Now:
Decommissioning work starts for shuttle Discovery
Daily Mail:
Mechanical wonder: Robot bird mimics flight so accurately it could be mistaken for the real thing
Imperial College London:
From candy floss to rock: study provides new evidence about beginnings of the Solar System
March 27, 2011
Farmington Daily Times:
Earthlings unite in Aztec
phillyBurbs.com:
Out-of-this-world experience
Aol News:
We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes
March 26, 2011
PhillyBurbs.com:
UFO enthusiasts invade Bordentown
Spaceflight Now:
Endeavour's cargo bay loaded for space station run
New York Times:
Alien Life, Coming Slowly Into View
Discovery News:
Space Forensics Might Point to a Martian Ancestry
Irish Times:
Are We Alone?
March 25, 2011
Danbury News Times:
Bethel native and UFO pioneer Dante Vaghi dies
Spaceflight Now:
Lights go out on NASA's Stardust comet mission
Space.com:
Inside NASA's Space Funeral for the Comet-Hunting Stardust Probe
Daily Mail:
Milky Way's 'twin' discovered as astronomers find a supermassive black hole
Space.com:
Exploded Star's 'Stripes' Hold Clue to Cosmic Mystery
Space.com:
Are We All Really Martians? Q & A with Mars Life-Seeker Chris Carr
Space.com:
Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Mars Trip on the Cheap
March 24, 2011
Farmington Daily Times:
Extra-special extraterrestrial experience
Space.com:
NASA Gears Up for Final Flight of Shuttle Endeavour
Space.com:
R.I.P. Stardust: NASA Comet-Visiting Spacecraft Ends 12-Year Mission
Space.com:
Sun Eruption Creates Spectacular Plasma Tentacle
Space.com:
Most Ancient Fossils Aren't Life, Study Suggests
Space.com:
Famous Black Hole Sheds New Light on Warped Space, Magnetic Fields
Discovery News:
Could Dead Stars Support Life?
March 23, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
TV Skeptic: 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files' looks at the real 'Battle of L.A.'
Space.com:
U.S. Military Satellites Achieve 'Holy Grail' of Missile Defense
Spaceflight Now:
Endeavour payloads to put final touches on space station
Spaceflight Now:
MESSENGER in the right place to begin science observations
Discovery News:
What's on Venus?
MIT News:
Are You A Martian?
Space.com:
Weird Saturn Radio Signals Puzzle Astronomers
Space.com:
NASA's 100-Year Starship Project Sets Sights on Interstellar Travel
Discovery News:
What Would an Interstellar Spaceship Look Like?
Space.com:
Are Earthlings From Mars? New Tool May Reveal Your Alien Ancestry
Discovery News:
Exploring the Universe with the Naked Eye
Daily Mail:
Was all alien ife sucked into a black hole after 'white dwarf hypernova' star explosion... and could it wipe us out too?
March 22, 2011
Space.com:
NASA Space Capsule Begins Tests at New Proving Ground
Space.com:
Step 1 in Astronauts-to-Asteroid Mission: Pick the Right Space Rock
Discovery News:
Two Stars Become One
March 21, 2011
New York Daily News:
Sammy Hagar says he's been abducted by aliens: 'They were plugged into me'
Inforum.com:
Researcher says UFOs keeping tabs on nukes
Discovery News:
Vladimir Komarov: The Unsung Space Hero
Space.com:
Photo Shows Far Side of Moon Like Never Before
Space.com:
New Estimate for Alien Earths: 2 Billion in Our Galaxy Alone
Space.com:
Artificially Intelligent Rockets Could Slash Launch Costs
Space.com:
How Vital Is a Planet's Magnetic Field? New Debate Rises
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Importance of Being Magnetized
Associated Press:
Lockheed Martin shows test spaceship, trial site
Life's Little Mysteries:
Space Might Be Like a Chessboard, Particles Like Pawns
Discovery News:
Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
Reuters:
NASA tests Mars space suit in Argentine Antarctica
March 20, 2011
The Lawrence Journal:
UFO Reykawvik Summit probes alien topics
March 19, 2011
The Wenatchee World:
Remote UFO center keeps an eye on NCW
PR Log:
Experts, Authors, Abductees to Speak at UFO Conference
Discovery News:
Meet NASA's Shuttle Rocket Retrieval Ships
The Daily Mail:
Saturn's UFO moons: Bizarrely-shaped Pan and Atlas baffle scientists
Life's Little Mysteries:
How Was the Solar System Formed?
March 18, 2011
The Beacon News:
Crosby: Answers to mysterious fireball still up in air
The Baltimore Sun:
Messenger successfully goes into orbit around planet Mercury
Spaceflight Now:
MESSENGER probe enters orbit around Mercury
Space.com:
NASA Pluto Probe Passes Orbit of Uranus
Discovery News:
Pluto-Bound Probe Sprints Across Uranus' Orbital Path
Life's Little Mysteries:
What's the Total Energy In the Universe? Zilch
Space.com:
'Supermoon' Rises: Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years Occurs Saturday Night
Space.com:
What Makes a 'Supermoon' So Super?
Space.com:
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Moon
The Daily Mail:
We've built a flying saucer, boasts Iran (even if it does look like it belongs in a 1950s B-movie)
March 17, 2011
Associated Press:
NASA's humanoid robot unveiled on space station
Space.com:
Hyperactive Comet Is a Spiky Mystery for Astronomers
Space.com:
Grains of Asteroid Dust Get a Good Going-Over in Japan
National Geographic:
Spring Rains Darken Saturn's Moon Titan
Time:
Relax: You Don't Need to Worry About Meeting E.T.
New Scientist:
Eight extremes: The biggest things in the universe
March 16, 2011
The State Journal Register:
Dave Bakke: UFOs stir up readers' passion
Bracknell Forest Standard:
UFO hoax papers released
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz capsule makes snowy landing with three-man crew
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Soyuz capsule returns to Earth
Space.com:
Soyuz Capsule Lands Safely With Space Station Crew
Space.com:
Astronauts Unpack Humanoid Space Robot in Orbit
Space.com:
NASA Probe to Investigate Enduring Mysteries of Mercury
Space.com:
10 Surprising Facts About NASA's Mercury Probe
Discovery News:
The Incredible Shrunken Mercury
Space.com:
World's First Space Gas Station for Satellites to Launch in 2015
Popular Science:
Polar-Mounted Laser Could Zap Space Junk, Protecting Satellites and the Space Station
Space.com:
NASA Prepares Antimatter-Hunting Detector for Space Shuttle Launch
Discovery News:
Could Higgs Particle be a Time-Traveling Assassin?
March 15, 2011
ABC News Australia:
UFO conference called off due to wet weather
Sydney Morning Herald:
The war of the words
March 14, 2011
NorthJersey.com:
Back in the Day, March 17, 1966: Ringwood nun spots UFO
March 13, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 7
Spaceflight Now:
Research finds asteroid Itokawa is an ancient rock
Life's Little Mysteries:
The 'Supermoon' Did Not Cause the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
Space.com:
NASA Scientist Explains Science Behind 'Supermoon' Phenomenon
Space.com:
How the Japan Earthquake Shortened Days on Earth
Space.com:
Most Enduring Mysteries of Mercury
March 12, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 6
Hurriyet:
Turkish woman chases UFOs around Lake Van
Langley Advance:
Aliens among suspects in 'surgical' cat deaths
Space.com:
More Secret X-37B Space Plane Missions Expected, U.S. Military Says
March 11, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 5
The Evening Gazette:
UFO sightings over 1950s Teesside
Tulsa World:
Tulsa's UFO still unidentified
The Beacon News:
UFO over Oswego? You've gotta see it to believe it
Lawrence Journal-World:
Inaugural UFO summit comes to Lawrence
Space.com:
NASA's Messenger Spacecraft Gears Up to Orbit Mercury
Space.com:
NASA's Messenger Mission to Mercury (Infographic)
Space.com:
New U.S. Spy Satellite Blasts Off On Secret Mission
Space.com:
Earthquake Forces Closure of Japan's Space Station Control Center
Discovery News:
Why Would Aliens Invade?
March 10, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
The Battle of L.A., 1942 [updated]
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 4
Discovery News:
Discovery Shuttle's First Pilot Remembers Rocky Start
Space.com:
If Aliens Attack: Visitors to Earth Will Likely Be Robots
Space.com:
At Solar System's Edge, Old Voyager 1 Probe Performs New 'Acrobatics'
Space.com:
NASA Programs to Fight Space Junk Threat Under Review
Spaceflight Now:
Endeavour begins crawl to launch pad
March 9, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 3
The State Journal Register:
Dave Bakke: Where have all the UFOs gone?
Fraser Coast Chronicle:
Nev hands in 'better' UFO footage
Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Vancouver UFO identified as kite with lights
The Columbian:
Mysterious flying object identified
Aol News:
Space Shuttle Discovery Touches Down for Last Time
Space.com:
Space Shuttle Discovery's Next Destination: A Noble Retirement in a Museum
Spaceflight Now:
Discovery's final landing marks beginning of the end
Space.com:
Shuttle Discovery By-the-Numbers: Nearly 27 Years as NASA's Space Workhorse
Life's Little Mysteries:
Will the March 19 'Supermoon' Trigger Natural Disasters?
Discovery News:
When You Wish Upon a Falling... Toolbag?
March 8, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 2
KDFW:
The Tex Files: Roswell Carswell Photos
KDFW:
The Tex Files: Del Rio Flying Saucer Mystery
NY Post:
Activist shoots video of 'UFO' hovering over Williamsburg
AFP:
Discovery shuttle to return to Earth Wednesday
NY Times:
Who Wants a Pre-Owned Shuttle? Everyone.
Wired:
Experts Push NASA to Focus on Search for Life
Space.com:
Amazing Skywatching Photos: Shuttle Discovery in Space for the Last Time
March 7, 2011
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- Saucers Over L.A.! Part 1
Aol News:
Classified Docs Reveal UK Tried to Stop Worldwide UFO Investigation
Space.com:
China's 'Two Suns' Video Unexplained By Science
Space.com:
Secretive X-37B Space Plane in Photos: Air Force's 2nd Robot Spaceship Flight
Space.com:
Of Mice and Boiling Bubbles: Weird Science Rides Space Shuttle
Spaceflight Now:
Officials anticipate more flights of X-37 space plane
The Christian Science Monitor:
Alien fossils found in meteorite? Scientists urge skepticism.
AFP:
NASA says 'no support' for claim of alien microbes
March 6, 2011
NT News:
UFO cover up
The Montreal Gazette:
Life on Earth began in space, NASA scientist suggests
The Guardian:
Nasa scientist claims evidence of extraterrestrial life
The New York Times:
NASA Scientist Sees Signs of Life in Meteorites
The Los Angeles Times:
Air Force X-37B space plane launched into orbit
The New York Daily News:
X-37B, super-secret experimental Air Force space plane, launches into orbit
Space.com:
Discovery Astronauts Pack Up to Leave Space Station
March 5, 2011
The Topeka Capital-Journal:
UFO 'A-team' experts coming to Lawrence
Retired Air Force officer believes UFOs are visiting nuclear weapon sites
Space.com:
On Space Station, Discovery Astronauts Wrap Up Final Work
Space.com:
NASA Readies Space Shuttle Endeavour for Final Mission
March 4, 2011
The Northern Star:
UFO mystery deepens
Oxford Mail:
Close encounters of the Oxford kind
News Shopper:
Forest Hill and Woolwich sightings of UFOs reported in MoD documents
Burton News:
MoD 'X' files reveal 'UFO' sighting in Burton's skies
KPHO:
Commercial Airline Pilot Saw Phoenix Lights
ABC News:
FAA Unable to Identify Object Flying Over NYC
WSBT:
Robonaut 2 aspires to fill in for astronauts
March 3, 2011
Aol News:
UFOs in the UK: Britain's Actual 'X-Files' Released
Sky News:
Secret 'X-Files' Of UFO Sightings Released
The Telegraph:
UFO files: sketches and reports of sightings in Britain
BBC News:
In pictures: UFOs files seen for the first time
The Telegraph:
UFO files: RAF tornado crew spotted UFO over North Sea
The Telegraph:
UFO files: Lancaster bomber seen with mystery UFO
This is Lincolnshire:
'Triangle-shaped' UFO in close encounter with Lancaster bomber
Portsmouth News:
Evidence of UFO encounter with HMS Manchester 'lost'
Manchester Evening News:
The X Files: New documents show close encounters over the Pennines
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press:
UFOs seen over Norfolk and Suffolk as reports of possible alien sightings released
Wales Online:
Family UFO film backed by police teams
The Belfast Telegraph:
UFO secret British dossier reveals sightings over Ulster
The Lancashire Telegraph:
'Chewy mint' UFO was spotted over Nelson, files reveals
This is Somerset:
MoD staff say something is out there
The Daily Mail:
Decade of the UFO: Secret files show alien sightings, including an object that buzzed a Lancaster bomber, have tailed off since their heyday in the 1970s
Aol News:
UFO or Hoax? Dispute Over Alleged Sighting in Brazil [VIDEO]
Fraser Coast Chronicle:
UFOs worth phoning home about
The Tucson Citizen:
UFO investigator terminated from volunteer deputy post after 'publicly contradicting' official findings
The Los Angeles Times:
Space plane and its secret payload set for launch
Life's Little Mysteries:
Slideshow: 6 Everyday Things that Happen Strangely In Space
Space.com:
Skywatching Events for March 2011
March 2, 2011
Suffolk Evening Star:
New records reveal Rendlesham Forest UFO files were 'destroyed'
BBC News:
UFO files reveal 'Rendlesham incident' papers missing
Daily Mail:
Have we just had a close encounter? The footage of a UFO hovering over a Brazilian city
Daily Mail:
Close encounters of the purred kind: Aliens spoke to us in a 'cat-like language' claim Russian flight controllers
The Sun:
Close encounters of the purred kind
WAPT
Flora UFO Sightings Remain Unexplained
Space.com:
Solar Wind Sparks Dazzling Northern Lights Show
Space.com:
NASA Tracks Meteor Fireballs With New Robot Cameras
March 1, 2011
Product Reviews:
Tractor Beam Breakthrough -- U.F.O Technology No Longer Hypothetical?
Life's Little Mysteries:
Would Humans Born On Mars Grow Taller Than Earthlings?
Space.com:
First U.S. Commercial Spaceport Names New Director
February 28, 2011
NJ.com:
Hoboken artist shows paintings documenting his lifelong experiences with UFOs and aliens
This Is Hampshire:
UFO spotted over the New Forest
February 26, 2011
Daily Mail:
'I believe in UFOs... and I've seen them': Former Canadian defence minister accuses American government of cover-up
February 25, 2011
Aol News:
Former Canadian Defense Official Blasts US on UFO Cover-Up
Las Vegas Weekly:
Evidence is overwhelming that UFOs are real, retired Army colonel says
February 24, 2011
The Columbian:
'UFO' still puzzling residents and an expert
February 23, 2011
Seattle Post Intelligencer:
UFO hunter says Vancouver sighting was star
AolNews:
Ret. Col. Says UFOs Are Real, but Denies Government Cover-Up
February 22, 2011
Seattle Times:
Residents see flying saucer over Vancouver, Wash.
February 21, 2011
The Columbian:
Was that a flying saucer hovering over east Vancouver?
Open Minds:
Alleged document linking UFOs and Nukes
Los Angeles Times:
Another Good Story Ruined -- the Battle of Los Angeles
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