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Grasshopper did its first test today! This is the first step in working out full reusability for Falcon 9! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJb3OncSEY&feature=player_embedded

http://www.universetoday.com/95576/missing-big-bang-arctic-telescope-found/ The trucker dumped the cargo at a truck wash and went off on his own, eventually falling asleep at another truck stop.

Calculated by precise measurements of stars in both galaxies. Result will be a huge elliptical galaxy. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/341186/name/aw_hs-2012-20-a-print.jpg

Kepler Object of Interest KOI-961 is a very small red dwarf. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/smallest-exoplanets.html

Heck! Venus sized! Distance: 950 Lightyears. Kepler telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-20-system.html

http://www.skymania....t-the-boot.html What a romantic thought.. i wonder where it is now.. It would be long gone, somewhere else in the galaxy entirely

SpaceX is developing an 106-foot tall reusable vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) rocket called Grasshopper based upon the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. It has applied for an experimental permit to conduct a series of flights up to 11,500 feet at its engine testing facility in...

The U.S. space agency will purchase commercial spaceflights for astronauts as part of its Integrated Design Contract, which will award $1.61 billion to companies that successfully develop a complete spaceflight package — one that includes rockets, spaceships, launch services, ground and mission...

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=19817 These variations are evidence of a large storm system on the brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs are large objects whos mass range between planet sized and star mass where nuclear fusion can take place. Recent studies have indicated that interstellar brown...

This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars -- a real-life Tatooine, from 'Star Wars.' The planet, which can be seen in the foreground, was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. A break in the Earthlike planet discoveries. Now we have a...

With 20K Pro-Space Petitions http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/09/12/bill-nye-storms-capitol-hill-with-20k-petitions/ Bill Nye, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, delivered more than 20,000 signed petitions supporting space exploration to Congress and the White House. The...

Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans started welding together the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/09/09/nasa-begins-work-on-first-space-bound-orion-spacecraft/ I did not realize they were this far ahead. It...

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/07/7651951-6-ton-nasa-satellite-set-to-fall NASA says a defunct six-ton satellite released in 1991 is due to re-enter the atmosphere — with the potential to rain debris upon Earth. The satellite expected to come down in late September or early...

This new is a bit old (a week) but i noticed there is no thread for it yet. http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=19764 White Drawfs that are past the Chadrasekhar mass could potentially hold themselves up if their spins are rapid enough to counteract the force of gravity. If they were to...

These are amazing! Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia. These images were taken in 1910-1912, this is what the world looked like 100 years ago! Seeing actual color photos...

There will be an online news conference next Monday, September 12 at 4:00 pm (16:00) CEST (7:00 am PT / 10 am ET) to discuss significant new findings related to exoplanets, to be held by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) regarding its High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS)...

http://www.space.com/12879-stealth-alien-planet-kepler-transit-timing-variation.html http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?fuseaction=ShowNews&NewsID=148 ____ ____ This is the first time an exosolar planet has been discovered by the observed effects on a known planet...

The NewSpace corp from test few its new secret spacecraft last month. The first flight was successful but on the second flight it blew up. Failures are to be expected, much like in the early days with NASA and SpaceX's first few failures...

Scientists digging through the WISE telescope's wealth of data have turned up a few more brown dwarfs. These specific objects are significant because Y type brown dwarfs are the coolest classification of brown dwarf in a spectrum that runs from Y to L. The Y dwarf discovered, WISE 1828+2650, is...

I am not sure if there is an existing thread for this, I searched but came up dry. There is not enough threads in this science forum anyway, i plan to change that in the near therm ;) This thread is about the Proposed commercial space station by a Russian commercial outfit. They are touting...