ROSAT: Another Satellite Falling in October 2011

ROSAT Satellite Falling to Earth in Late October Just when you thought we were done with satellites falling to Earth, here's another item to make David Bowie and Lou Reed happy: Germany's defunct Roentgen Satellite...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin: There is a Monolith on a Mars Moon

Listen to this candid conversation with legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin seen on C-Span .  Mr Aldrin speaks of a mysterious potatoe shaped object orbiting a moon of Mars every 7 hours.  He also...

THIS IS A FANTASTICLY MADE COLLECTION OF IMAGES FROM THE UNIVERSE by David Ba...

The internet is a great place to find uniquely made films by individuals who have passions of having thier ideas shown to world unbiased and uncontrolled.  I have found such a piece as this created by...

Welcome home, Jules Verne

After its successful six month mission as part of the International Space Station (ISS), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne has fallen to earth like a spectacular firework, as it made a controlled...

India Aims for The Moon this Year

Nobody is waiting for NASA to do space exploration.  India is slowly and gradually developing a moon progam and is in a race, although nobody seems to be in a hurry to win the race to the moon anymore.  China and Europe also continue with some fanfare.  ...

ISS dodges debris

The International Space Station has had to perform an evasive manoeuvre to avoid colliding with debris from a Russian satellite that broke-up earlier in the year.  NASA reports:"Using ATV thrusters, the ISS...

Marigolds on the moon a possibility, scientists say

One small step for shrubkind..."Scientists with the European Space Agency (Esa) say the day when flowers bloom on the Moon has come closer.An Esa-linked team has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very...

What Are Jules Verne’s Books Doing In Space?

Finally it’s happening for real. Jules Verne’s books are about to be literally sent into the future. The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending three of his works to it space station ISS. Space agency ESA is sending two original copies of Jules Verne’s works about...

The Northwest Passage Is Now Open For Business :: Oblate Spheroid

"The Northwest Passage has long been held as a wish or a dream for those enterprises that had to move massive amounts of goods between Asia and Europe. The Northwest Passage is now open here on the Oblate...

Mysterious Martian 'Ridges'

Strange topographical ridges have been discovered on the distant red planet.  Using its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), the Mars Express, named so because it was built the fastest of an Planet-bound...

Floods and Forest Fires From Space

The European Space Agency released photos today from its Envisat satellite, documenting from space the worst flooding of the river Thames last week. (click here for NowPublic Article)You can plainly see the...

ESA Tracks Mammoth Swells Across Indian Ocean

The European Space Agency (ESA) reported today that the large swells that struck Reunion Island and parts of the Indonesian coast a little over a week ago originated nearly 10,000 km away, across the Indian Ocean....

Mars Or Bust

"Well in this case its a bust for the Canadian Space Agency and Canada's high tech value added high tech industries that are leading edge in space robotics. Ottawa scraps plans for Canadian-built Mars rover"

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