Apologies for the lack of posts the past few days, but here’s a round-up across the Universe (and the world wide web) of some of the latest and best space news. Above, watch a video about the site being chosen for the E-ELT.
Dr. Paul Spudis writes in the Air & Space Blog about the “Four Flavors of Lunar Water.”
Todd Halvorson of Florida interviews Elon Musk of SpaceX about the upcoming launch of the Dragon spacecraft, schedule for May 11.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Charlie Bolden is taking flack for proposing a generous retirement plan for astronauts.
The SciGuy, Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle interviews Jeffrey Manber, CEO of MirCorp who says NASA must go commercial or it will perish.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory wows again with more spectacular video and Science@NASA describes it as SDO seeing “scorching rain.”
NASA continues to progress with the development of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST),…
Our neighbour, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is rich in gas and dust and hosts…
New research on locomotion techniques that could be used in space exploration is constantly coming…
White dwarfs are the remnants of once brilliant main sequence stars like our Sun. They're…
We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close…
It’s a familiar sight to see astronauts on board ISS on exercise equipment to minimise…