THE DAILY GALAXY

• newFrom the Farside --"Supermassive Black Holes May Harbor Advanced Civilizations"
  "We hypothesize that the advanced civilizations may live safely inside the supermassive black holes in the galactic nuclei being invisible from the outside," said Russian cosmologist Vyacheslav Vyacheslav Dokuchaev at Moscow's Institute for Nuclear R…
  - 37 mins ago 24 Apr 18, 1:30pm -
• newToday's Top Science Headline --"There is No Past or Future" (WATCH Video)
  The smooth “flow” of time is an illusion, that “The events of the world do not form an orderly queue like the English, they crowd around chaotically like the Italians,” says Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist who wants to...  …
  - 20 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 5:46pm -
• newThe Milky Way --"Still Growing at 13-Billion Years"
  "Our Milky Way is more than 13 billion years old, so it is not young anymore, but the galaxy still has both a central bulge of old stars and spiral arms of young stars," said Matthew Colless from Australia National...       
  - 22 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 4:29pm -
• newTotally Different DNA Structure Identified --"It's DNA, But Not as We Know It"
  "When most of us think of DNA, we think of the double helix," says Associate Professor Daniel Christ (Head, Antibody Therapeutics Lab, Garvan) who co-led the research. "This new research reminds us that totally different DNA structures exist - and...…
  - 23 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 3:34pm -
• newLast Week's Top 5 Space & Science Headlines
  "We'll Find Planets of a Kind Never Seen Before" 100,000-year-Old Hashtag: "The First Human Symbol?" "We Truly Don't Know What It Is" --Mystery Milky-Way Spectrum of Light Observed It's About Expanding Earth! Over the Next 10 Years, Space Will Become…
  - 24 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 2:15pm -

• Today's "Planet Earth Report" --Humans are Driving Large Mammals to Extinction
  “They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,” says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Br…
  - 1 day ago 23 Apr 18, 1:14pm -
• "The Weird Existence of Primordial Black Holes in the Early Universe" --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  Astronomers studying the motions of galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize in the last century that most of the matter in the universe was not visible. About 84 percent of the matter in...      …
  - 2 days ago 22 Apr 18, 3:44pm -
• "Flashback" --Carl Sagan on How We Would Communicate With Advanced Alien Life (Weekend Feature/Video)
  If life exists elsewhere in the Universe, would we be able to communicate with it? In this clip from the 1977 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, "The Planets", Carl Sagan demonstrates how we could send a signal that would make sense...      …
  - 3 days ago 21 Apr 18, 3:24pm -
• Today's "Planet Earth Report"--"Sea Nomads: The Superhumans Living Among Us"
  "I think it's fascinating to see just how extraordinary this population is, to think that they're almost like superhumans living among us with these really extraordinary capabilities. But I also think natural selection is a lot more powerful than we.…
  - 3 days ago 21 Apr 18, 1:51pm -
• Today's Top Space Headline --"It's About Expanding Earth! Over the Next 10 Years, Space Will Become an Industrial Zone Filled with Orbiting Factories"
  "Over the next 10 years, space will become an industrial zone filled with orbiting factories. Like oil platforms on the ocean, but not polluting,” says entrepreneur Jason Dunn, Made In Space’s co-founder and chief technology officer. "We could ha…
  - 3 days ago 21 Apr 18, 1:04pm -

Space Politics Blog

• A new chapter
  I wanted to pass along some personal news: I’ve taken a position starting today with SpaceNews, as a senior writer there. I’ll be writing there on a lot about what you’ve seen here and elsewhere: space policy, commercial space, and related topi…
  - 2 Sep 14, 3:24pm -
• House members seek details on SLS/Orion schedules and spending
  A day after NASA announced that the first SLS may not be ready for launch until as late as November 2018, two key members of the House Science Committee asked NASA for details on both the schedule and funding levels of the SLS and Orion programs. In…
  - 28 Aug 14, 4:28pm -
• With an SLS slip looming, one senator wants to keep NASA’s budget “on track”
  An announcement Wednesday by NASA that the first launch of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket could slip by nearly a year has led one key senator to suggest the program needs some budgetary help. NASA announced Wednesday that…
  - 28 Aug 14, 12:18am -
• Air Force starts search for an RD-180 replacement
  Although the supply of Russian-built RD-180 engines that power the first stage of the Atlas V do not appear to be in the same level of jeopardy as feared earlier this year—United Launch Alliance took delivery of two of those engines last week—the…
  - 26 Aug 14, 4:12pm -
• House gearing up for CR to last until December
  With no sign of progress on appropriations bills stalled in the Senate, the House is making plans to pass a “clean” continuing resolution that will keep the government running at least into December, a top House member said this week. In an inte…
  - 22 Aug 14, 1:23pm -

• As China tests ASAT, US pushes multilateral space security efforts
  In a speech at a US Strategic Command symposium last week, a top State Department official made the case again for various multilateral efforts to improve space security, even as China appeared to perform another test of an anti-satellite (ASAT) wea…
  - 21 Aug 14, 2:58pm -
• Buzz Aldrin endorses candidate in Alaska Senate race
  Republicans in Alaska are going to the polls today to select a candidate to run against incumbent Sen. Mark Begich (D) in the November general election. One of those candidates is hoping that a last-minute endorsement from a famous former astronaut w…
  - 19 Aug 14, 3:21pm -
• The curious case of a deleted Forbes.com commentary on SpaceX
  SpaceX is no stranger to both strong support and harsh criticism of its activities, particularly in political circles. Last month, for example, three members of the House of Representatives asked NASA for details on an “epidemic of anomalies” the…
  - 19 Aug 14, 2:19pm -
• Improving SOFIA
  Although a final resolution may not come until late this year, when Congress finally approves a fiscal year 2015 appropriations bill, it appears that NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program has survived its near-deat…
  - 14 Aug 14, 3:57pm -
• Orion manager warns he’s “challenged” to make December 2017 launch
  In two separate public appearances last week, the manager of NASA’s Orion spacecraft warned that he is “challenged” to keep Orion on track for the first Space Launch System (SLS) mission in late 2017. Mark Geyer spoke at the Mars Society’s a…
  - 13 Aug 14, 3:13pm -

Discovery Space News

• Huge Tsunamis May Have Ravaged Ancient Mars
  When Mars was a wet world, did its oceans experience powerful tsunamis spawned by meteorite impacts?
  - 25 May 16, 3:51pm -
• Collapsing Cosmic Clouds Birth Black Hole Monsters
  Supermassive black holes occupy all known galaxies, but astronomers have little idea how they formed. Now space telescopes have found a clue.
  - 24 May 16, 10:57pm -
• Mystery Plumes: Did the Sun Bruise Mars?
  Strange plumes have been spotted high in the Martian atmosphere that have, so far, defied explanation. Now scientists think space weather is to blame.
  - 24 May 16, 5:45pm -
• NASA Probe Tracks Object in Solar System's Badlands
  While coasting through the outer solar system, NASA's New Horizons is busying itself with astronomical observations of a distant Kuiper Belt Object.
  - 23 May 16, 9:39pm -
• Solar Superflares Set Stage for Life on Earth
  Earth could have grown warm enough for liquid water as far back as 4 billion years ago thanks to massive and frequent solar flares.
  - 23 May 16, 3:00pm -

• See the Red Planet with Your Own Eyes This Weekend
  Mars reaches opposition this weekend, making Saturday and Sunday (May 21 and 22) an opportune time to see the Red Planet with your own eyes.
  - 21 May 16, 6:44pm -
• Extreme Exoplanets Reveal Migration Mystery
  A star hosting 4 massive gas giant exoplanets has been spotted -- is this how our solar system looked in its ancient past?
  - 20 May 16, 9:40pm -
• How to Form Io's Mountains? Just Squeeze!
  On Earth, mountains form along tectonic boundaries, but Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon, is awash with molten rock and dotted with solitary mountains -- how did they form?
  - 20 May 16, 4:28pm -
• DNews: Meet a Black Hole 17 Billion Times the Sun's Mass
  DNews sits down with U.C. Berkeley astronomy professor Chung-Pei Ma to learn all about supermassive black holes, including one nearby that's just honking huge.
  - 20 May 16, 8:45am -
• LHC Opens the Quantum Physics Floodgates
  As it restarts its mission to discover weird and exotic things about our universe, the Large Hadron Collider is about to become a firehose of quantum data.
  - 20 May 16, 2:18am -
• 'Peeping Tom' Hubble Spies Mars' Full Frontal
  As we approach the closest opposition with Mars in 10 years, Hubble took the opportunity to photograph the Red Planet's sun-lit hemisphere.
  - 19 May 16, 6:35pm -
• Jupiter Is Smashed by Over 6 Huge Fireballs per Year
  The gas giant is known to be the target of some massive chunks of space debris, but now astronomers have a pretty good idea about how many big impacts can be seen from Earth.
  - 19 May 16, 4:23pm -
• DNews: What Fills the Vast Space Between Planets?
  With so much space in outer space, it's tempting to think there's a whole lot of nothing between the big objects. But a closer look finds more than just dust in those voids.
  - 19 May 16, 11:34am -
• Another Kuiper Belt Discovered Around Nearby Star
  A nearby star system has been discovered sporting its own Kuiper belt -- a region populated with ancient icy comets and asteroids.
  - 19 May 16, 12:38am -
• Blazing SpaceX Rocket Suffered 'Max' Damage
  After delivering its payload, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ripped through the atmosphere to make a record-breaking ocean landing. But it came at a cost.
  - 18 May 16, 6:15pm -
• Glass Beads in Australia Point to Huge Asteroid Hit
  Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago.
  - 18 May 16, 2:26pm -
• Europa's Ocean Chemistry Could Be Earth-Like
  Could another part of the Europa life equation be locked in the water-rock chemical reactions we are familiar with on Earth?
  - 18 May 16, 1:25am -
• 'Belt Of Venus' Glows Over Paranal Observatory
  A beautiful atmospheric phenomenon descended over the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) last week, giving the participants of the inaugural #MeetESO social media event an evening treat.
  - 17 May 16, 5:02pm -
• Likely Exocomets: Closing In on 'Alien Megastructure' Clues
  Another study of the dust surrounding infamous Tabby's Star appears to favor the exocomet hypothesis for its very strange transit signal.
  - 16 May 16, 8:15pm -
• Glider to Surf the Sky to the Edge of Space
  Perlan 2 pilots will search for high-altitude updrafts of air, known as mountain waves, that form over the Andes.
  - 16 May 16, 4:50pm -

CBS Space News

• CBS News Space Page is Moving!
  By WILLIAM HARWOODCBS NewsEDITOR’S NOTE: We are in the process of moving stories on this page to the CBS News Sci-Tech page. This site will be taken down in the next few weeks. We appreciate your patience!
  - 30 Jul 15, 3:32am -
• Cause of Russian Progress failure still TBD
  Four weeks after a Progress space station supply ship spun out of control in a launch mishap, Russian engineers have not yet revealed what might have gone wrong, casting a cloud of uncertainty over downstream flights of unpiloted cargo ships as well…
  - 28 May 15, 2:51am -
• NASA selects instruments for Europa mission
  Taking a major step toward an eventual robotic mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, NASA has selected nine sophisticated instruments for a solar-powered spacecraft designed to find out whether the hidden realm could support life of some sort, agency o…
  - 26 May 15, 8:45pm -
• SpaceX cargo ship returns to Earth
  A SpaceX cargo capsule loaded with 3,100 pounds of research samples, no-longer-needed equipment and trash returned to Earth Thursday after a month-long stay at the International Space Station.
  - 21 May 15, 6:25pm -
• X-37B spaceplane launched on secret mission
  A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral Wednesday, boosting an unpiloted military spaceplane into orbit for a secret mission.
  - 21 May 15, 2:13am -

• Air Force set to launch spaceplane on mostly secret mission
  An Air Force X-37B spaceplane, a mini shuttle making the program's fourth flight, is poised for launch Wednesday on a mostly classified mission featuring an unusual hitchhiker: a small publicly-funded satellite built to test the feasibility of using…
  - 19 May 15, 5:35pm -
• Brightman steps down from station flight
  Soprano and would-be space tourist Sarah Brightman, who was in training for a flight to the International Space Station this fall aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft, will not be chasing her dream aloft after all, the singer's website and Facebook pag…
  - 13 May 15, 7:45pm -
• Russia delays upcoming ISS flights in wake of Progress failure
  Russia is delaying the return to Earth of three space station crew members by about a month in the wake of the April 18 failure of a Russian Progress supply ship. Launch of three fresh crew members also will be delayed, from May 26 to late July.
  - 12 May 15, 8:33pm -
• SpaceX stages emergency escape system test
  Simulating a launch pad emergency, an unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule was blasted away from Cape Canaveral Wednesday, shooting to an altitude of several thousand feet before arcing over for an offshore splashdown in a dramatic emergency escape system…
  - 6 May 15, 2:15pm -
• SpaceX gears up for pad abort test
  SpaceX is readying an unmanned Dragon capsule for a simulated launch pad abort Wednesday, a short, high-speed flight to demonstrate an innovative rocket-powered escape system designed to quickly pull a crew to safety in the event of an impending boos…
  - 5 May 15, 4:24pm -
• Messenger probe, out of gas, crashes into Mercury
  NASA's hardy Messenger spacecraft, out of fuel at the end of a remarkably successful 11-year mission, ended its life with a bang Thursday, smashing into the hellish surface of Mercury at some 8,750 miles per hour and blasting out a new crater in the…
  - 30 Apr 15, 9:01pm -
• Blue Origin launches sub-orbital New Shepard test flight
  Blue Origin, a rocket engine and spacecraft development company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, carried out an unpiloted maiden test flight of the company's New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle Wednesday, the company revealed early Thursday.
  - 30 Apr 15, 7:19am -
• New Horizons detects possible polar cap on Pluto
  New photos and animations of Pluto and its large moon Charon taken by the fast-approaching New Horizons probe are revealing distinct surface features for the first time, including a bright area that could be a snowy polar cap, mission managers said W…
  - 29 Apr 15, 9:30pm -
• Russian abandon efforts to salvage wayward cargo ship
  Russian flight controllers have given up attempting to salvage a Progress cargo ship loaded with 3 tons of supplies and equipment intended for the International Space Station. Instead, the spacecraft likely will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up wi…
  - 29 Apr 15, 4:04pm -
• Progress cargo ship spins out of control after launch
  A Russian Progress supply ship loaded with more than 3 tons of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station apparently spun out of control shortly after reaching orbit Tuesday, putting the resupply mission in jeopardy.
  - 28 Apr 15, 2:34pm -

Blog - Parabolic Arc

• newHow a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business
  MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. (NASA PR) — Satellites aren’t small or cheap. The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched by NASA in 2010 weighs about 6,800 pounds
  - 2 hours ago 24 Apr 18, 12:23pm -
• newSuccessful Launch for AFRL Eagle Spacecraft Experiment on AFSPC-11 mission
  WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (88th Air Base Wing PR) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s EAGLE spacecraft flight experiment was successfully launched on
  - 4 hours ago 24 Apr 18, 9:42am -
• newMultiple Flight Projects Selected from ISS Cotton Sustainability Challenge
  Projects selected from the challenge, sponsored by Target Corporation, seek to improve cotton sustainability by leveraging the International Space Station KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.,
  - 7 hours ago 24 Apr 18, 7:21am -
• newVideo of Gwynne Shotwell’s TED Talk
  Video Caption: What’s up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk’s pioneering aerospace company and is now its president.
  - 14 hours ago 24 Apr 18, 12:00am -
• newCubeSats Readied for NASA’s First Venture Class Launch
  HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (NASA PR) — A host of CubeSats, or small satellites, are undergoing the final stages of processing at Rocket Lab USA’s
  - 18 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 8:27pm -

• newNon-Profit Group Bought XCOR’s Assets & IP
  On Friday, Space.com published a story I wrote about how Build A Plane had purchased XCOR’s assets for use in a school it wants
  - 21 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 4:48pm -
• newThis Week on The Space Show
  This week on The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston: 1. Monday, April 23, 2018; 2-3:30 PM PDT (4-5:30 PM CDT, 5-6:30 PM EDT):
  - 22 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 4:16pm -
• newHyperScout Successfully Captures First Images From Space
  WARMOND, The Netherlands (cosine PR) — HyperScout, the first miniaturized hyperspectral camera in space, has captured its first images. Developed by an international consortium
  - 23 hours ago 23 Apr 18, 2:43pm -
• NanoRacks Awarded GSA Schedule Contract For In-Space Services
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (NanoRacks PR) – NanoRacks is pleased to announce that the Company has been awarded a contract with the U.S. General Services
  - 1 day ago 23 Apr 18, 12:19pm -
• York Space Systems and RUAG Space Partner for Complete Space Deployment Solution
  DENVER (York Space Systems PR) — York Space Systems, an aerospace company specializing in complete space segment customer solutions and the manufacture of standardized
  - 1 day ago 23 Apr 18, 10:00am -
• GomSpace Successfully Commissions GOMX-4 Nanosats
  STOCKHOLM (GomSpace PR) — As part of a mission to demonstrate interlink communication on nanosatellite tandem formation flights and data retrieval, including surveillance of
  - 2 days ago 22 Apr 18, 1:18pm -
• Aerospace Policy Paper Explores the Next Steps in Space Development
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aerospace Corporation PR) – The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released a new policy paper that explores
  - 2 days ago 22 Apr 18, 9:17am -
• New Shepard Flights Set to Resume Soon
  Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith says the next New Shepard flight will occur soon, Space News reports. The next New Shepard test flight should
  - 3 days ago 21 Apr 18, 12:27pm -
• New Rocket Motor Takes Flight in Mojave Desert
  EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (Aerospace Corporation PR) — Solid, liquid, or gas? That might sound like a question on your high school physics test, but
  - 3 days ago 21 Apr 18, 9:19am -
• Pence to Swear in Bridenstine as NASA Administrator on Monday
  WASHINGTON (NASA PR) — Media are invited to see Vice President Mike Pence swear in Jim Bridenstine as NASA’s new administrator at 2:30 p.m.
  - 3 days ago 21 Apr 18, 4:45am -

Discovery News Space News

• Huge Tsunamis May Have Ravaged Ancient Mars
  When Mars was a wet world, did its oceans experience powerful tsunamis spawned by meteorite impacts?
  - 25 May 16, 3:51pm -
• Collapsing Cosmic Clouds Birth Black Hole Monsters
  Supermassive black holes occupy all known galaxies, but astronomers have little idea how they formed. Now space telescopes have found a clue.
  - 24 May 16, 10:57pm -
• Mystery Plumes: Did the Sun Bruise Mars?
  Strange plumes have been spotted high in the Martian atmosphere that have, so far, defied explanation. Now scientists think space weather is to blame.
  - 24 May 16, 5:45pm -
• NASA Probe Tracks Object in Solar System's Badlands
  While coasting through the outer solar system, NASA's New Horizons is busying itself with astronomical observations of a distant Kuiper Belt Object.
  - 23 May 16, 9:39pm -
• Solar Superflares Set Stage for Life on Earth
  Earth could have grown warm enough for liquid water as far back as 4 billion years ago thanks to massive and frequent solar flares.
  - 23 May 16, 3:00pm -

• See the Red Planet with Your Own Eyes This Weekend
  Mars reaches opposition this weekend, making Saturday and Sunday (May 21 and 22) an opportune time to see the Red Planet with your own eyes.
  - 21 May 16, 6:44pm -
• Extreme Exoplanets Reveal Migration Mystery
  A star hosting 4 massive gas giant exoplanets has been spotted -- is this how our solar system looked in its ancient past?
  - 20 May 16, 9:40pm -
• How to Form Io's Mountains? Just Squeeze!
  On Earth, mountains form along tectonic boundaries, but Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon, is awash with molten rock and dotted with solitary mountains -- how did they form?
  - 20 May 16, 4:28pm -
• DNews: Meet a Black Hole 17 Billion Times the Sun's Mass
  DNews sits down with U.C. Berkeley astronomy professor Chung-Pei Ma to learn all about supermassive black holes, including one nearby that's just honking huge.
  - 20 May 16, 8:45am -
• LHC Opens the Quantum Physics Floodgates
  As it restarts its mission to discover weird and exotic things about our universe, the Large Hadron Collider is about to become a firehose of quantum data.
  - 20 May 16, 2:18am -
• 'Peeping Tom' Hubble Spies Mars' Full Frontal
  As we approach the closest opposition with Mars in 10 years, Hubble took the opportunity to photograph the Red Planet's sun-lit hemisphere.
  - 19 May 16, 6:35pm -
• Jupiter Is Smashed by Over 6 Huge Fireballs per Year
  The gas giant is known to be the target of some massive chunks of space debris, but now astronomers have a pretty good idea about how many big impacts can be seen from Earth.
  - 19 May 16, 4:23pm -
• DNews: What Fills the Vast Space Between Planets?
  With so much space in outer space, it's tempting to think there's a whole lot of nothing between the big objects. But a closer look finds more than just dust in those voids.
  - 19 May 16, 11:34am -
• Another Kuiper Belt Discovered Around Nearby Star
  A nearby star system has been discovered sporting its own Kuiper belt -- a region populated with ancient icy comets and asteroids.
  - 19 May 16, 12:38am -
• Blazing SpaceX Rocket Suffered 'Max' Damage
  After delivering its payload, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ripped through the atmosphere to make a record-breaking ocean landing. But it came at a cost.
  - 18 May 16, 6:15pm -
• Glass Beads in Australia Point to Huge Asteroid Hit
  Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago.
  - 18 May 16, 2:26pm -
• Europa's Ocean Chemistry Could Be Earth-Like
  Could another part of the Europa life equation be locked in the water-rock chemical reactions we are familiar with on Earth?
  - 18 May 16, 1:25am -
• 'Belt Of Venus' Glows Over Paranal Observatory
  A beautiful atmospheric phenomenon descended over the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) last week, giving the participants of the inaugural #MeetESO social media event an evening treat.
  - 17 May 16, 5:02pm -
• Likely Exocomets: Closing In on 'Alien Megastructure' Clues
  Another study of the dust surrounding infamous Tabby's Star appears to favor the exocomet hypothesis for its very strange transit signal.
  - 16 May 16, 8:15pm -
• Glider to Surf the Sky to the Edge of Space
  Perlan 2 pilots will search for high-altitude updrafts of air, known as mountain waves, that form over the Andes.
  - 16 May 16, 4:50pm -

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