Life Marker Chip Heads to Space
Would you know microbial life if you saw it? What if you were a robot? A newly developed "Life Marker…
Astrosphere for September 18th, 2007
Well, I'm officially jealous. Space blogger Keith Cowing recently got a chance to fly on the Zero Gravity Corporation's G…
NASA is Looking for New Astronauts
Have you got the right stuff? If you've got multiple advanced degrees, a body carved from a block of steel,…
The Northwest Passage is Open, and That’s Not a Good Thing
Here in Vancouver, we have a maritime museum with the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second…
Google Maps are Going to Get Better After Today’s Satellite Launch
Come on, admit it, you've spent hours gazing at Google Maps and Google Earth, finding your house, school, and seeing…
Neptune’s South Pole is the Warmest Place on the Planet
Here on Earth we think of the poles as cold places, but on Neptune, it's just the opposite. New images…
Supercomputer Will Simulate Colliding Black Holes
You just know this is going to take some serious computer horsepower. Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity…
Astrosphere for September 17, 2007
I've got a whole collection of interesting and unusual resources for you to enjoy today: Remember Cassini's visit to Iapetus?…
The Magellanic Clouds are Here for the First Time
The Milky Way is surrounded by a cloud of smaller dwarf galaxies in various stages of destruction. Our galaxy's gravity…
Japan’s Mission to the Moon Blasts Off
If you think the Americans are going to be dominating lunar exploration, think again. Many countries are considering our heavenly…