First Commercial Spaceship Debuts
news.discovery.com — While NASA frets over a looming hiatus in its ability to launch people into space, a commercial company is poised to unveil the first spaceship for private passenger travel. So far about 300 people have put down $200,000 each for tickets to ride SpaceShipTwo. (Submitted by ScottMcIntyre) More…
Mysterious strange stars may rival black holes for weirdness
usatoday.com — Think black holes are strange? Understandable considering these powerhouses of the universe (many times heavier than our sun) are collapsed stars with gravity so strong that even light cannot escape their grasp. (Submitted by divinediva) More…
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Top Ten Space Finds of 2009: Nat Geo News's Most Viewed
news.nationalgeographic.com — There's water, water everywhere in National Geographic News's most popular space coverage of 2009: A probe proved there's water on the moon, a Mars lander's leg got all wet, fishlike life may swim a Jupiter moon's seas, and more.. (Submitted by mmaine) More…
What Drugs Are Our Astronauts On?
news.discovery.com — Outer space, at least as we encounter it in science fiction, is basically a drug free-for-all. If character's aren’t piloting starships on Melange or Somec, then they're playing with dolls on Can-D or pumping their brains full of (Submitted by shamesh) More…
Mars Had Liquid Water in Recent Past, Rover Finds
news.nationalgeographic.com — While trying to shake free of a Martian sand trap, the Mars rover Spirit churned up layers of minerals that hint at relatively recent groundwater activity on the red planet, scientists say. (Submitted by FI5HERMAN) More…
NASA's Search for New Laws of Physics
dailygalaxy.com — This past June, a Delta II rocket lifted the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) spacecraft off the launch pad toward an astounding mission to explore the most extreme environments in the universe, search for signs of new laws of physics and explain how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed. (Submitted by benb24) More…
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