| Over 6,000 apply for NASA Astronaut Corps Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday.
Late last year, NASA announced a selection procedure... | |
| Soon, hi-speed running robots to navigate 'inaccessible' terrains A large fraction of the Earth's surface remains inaccessible to conventional wheeled or tracked vehicles, while animals and humans traverse such terrain with ease and elegance, researchers say.... |
| Russia eyes mission to reach moon this decade Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports.
The... |
| More people now want to be astronauts: NASA NASA has received 6,372 applications for its 2013 class of astronauts, double the usual number, the US space agency said.
Only in 1978, when applications surged to more than 8,000, have more people... |
| Super Bowl Cities Seen From Space Satellite image of RI and portions of southeastern Massachusetts. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 7 If you live in or are from the US, you probably know that today is Super Bowl Sunday. Whatever you... |
| Google Earth update erases 'Atlantis' error Just a handful of the many screenshots of Google Earth that supposedly revealed the undersea civilization of Atlantis. The grid shown in most of these images is now erased from the... |
| Rare earth prices 'reflect market' A rare earth mine in Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. China is the world's largest exporter of rare earth minerals, supplying more than 90 percent of the international market, though... |
| Astronomers find massive black holes common in early Universe Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space... |
| Chinese president visits former leaders ahead of Lunar New Year BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders have paid visits to former leaders of the state and the Communist Party of China (CPC) to extend New Year greetings to them... |
| Mainland official extends Lunar New Year greetings to Taiwan compatriots BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief extended his festive greetings for the upcoming Spring Festival to Taiwan compatriots on Friday.Wang Yi, director of the... |
| Astronomer Creates Wine from 4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite An astronomer from Britain has, apparently, created wine from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite! An expatriate, Ian Hutechon has labelled his astronomical-alcoholic creation - Meteorito. The wine was... |
| Scientists puzzled by region outside solar system LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported... |
| NASA Recruiting: Over 6,000 People want to be Astronauts NASA is currently recruiting to train astronauts for its 2013 batch. Incidentally, this number (6,372 to be exact) is the largest since 1978, when they received more than 8,000 eager... |
| Over 6,000 Individuals Apply for NASA’s Astronaut Corps Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA’s astronaut corps, which is twice as many as the U.S. space agency typically receives, NASA said in a statement on Sunday. Late last year,... |
| Altai Republic marks Chaga Bairam – New Year according to lunar calendar GORNO-ALTAISK, February 5 (Itar-Tass) - The capital of the Altai Republic marks this Sunday the New Year according to the oriental lunar... |
| Seagrass is the Oldest Life Form on Earth: Study Australia have discovered that seagrass is the oldest living thing on the Earth. The scientists analysed 40 meadows across 3,500 kilometres of the Mediterranean Sea. They discovered that seagrass... |
| The man who fell to earth: jumper plans skydive from edge of space IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft,... |
| Over 6,300 People Have Applied To Be Astronauts At some point, I think most little kids think to themselves, ';When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut!'; And it looks like quite a few people never lost that dream. NASA has announced... |
| The Milky Way’s Magnetic Personality The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer,... |
| Journal Club – Neutrino Vision Today's article is about neutrino astronomy... on ice. According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the... |
| 'Universe from Nothing': Big Bang was a bargain But something from nothing, physicists are finding, may be the ultimate secret of the universe. "The surprising fact is that we live in a universe that has all the characteristics of being created... |
| Over 6,300 Respond to NASA's Request for Astronaut Applicants NASA's space shuttle program is over. NASA does not have its own means of taking astronauts into space. Commercial spacecraft under development won't be ready for another four to five... |
| Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust Dear Dr ManderI am one of the leading professionals in my field. Unfortunately however I have recently benn subject to allegations about my behaviour from an embittered third party and have been... |
| Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth Flyby This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by NEAR on February 14, 2000, immediately after the spacecraft's insertion... |
| SpaceX launch will be a key test for NASA Lawmakers, administration officials and other policy makers with a role in deciding NASA spending will be watching as well. The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Cape... |
| Google Wallet On Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S , According to Reports Several reports have come out indicating that AT&T has quietly begun allowing users of the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S NFC-enabled smartphones to download Google Wallet. ... |
| Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters… An artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar... |
| Astronomers discover potentially habitable super-Earth February 4, 2012 Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth planet orbiting a nearby star, making it one of the best candidates to support life. The newly found planet, called... |
| Dark Side of the Moon – Illuminated Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, the side never visible from Earth, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report... |
| Russia Aims to Send Cosmonauts to the Moon? Russia 's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this... |
| New Study Shows How Trace Elements Affect Stars’ Habitable Zones Comparison of the habitable zone around the Sun in our solar system and around the star Gliese 581. Credit: ESO Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where conditions... |
| Beautiful Conjunction: Comet Garradd Meets M92 This lovely image of Comet Garradd (C/2009 PI) as it passes by the globular cluster M92 in the constellation Hercules, was taken remotely from the Tzek Maun Observatory in New Mexico by our... |
| Community Corner: Lunar New Year, summer-camp fair Community events for the weekend of Saturday, Feb. 4, and Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, include a Lunar New Year Celebration at Seattle Central Library and the Seattle/Eastside CampFair for summer-camp... |
