ECSTATIC space officials at Nasa could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years – new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing.

View this century’s longest solar eclipse aboard the JetLite 737-700 
On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, we are going to witness the greatest eclipse of the 21st century. A total eclipse of the sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow will begin in India [...]

Image of part of a stellar remnant whose explosion was recorded in 185 A.D.  
Thanks to a unique “ballistic study” that combines data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way’s particle accelerators. They show in a paper published today on Science Express [...]

 The surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows evidence of ongoing geological activity 
Alien life could have evolved on one of Saturn’s moons, scientists say.
They have found evidence that seas may lie beneath the frozen surface of Enceladus  – the planet’s sixth biggest moon.
 

 
Space Colony
For more than 50 years, many have taken the so-called Fermi Paradox to indicate that the existence of intelligent alien civilizations is an impossibility. However, a recent re-examination of the paradox points out that, rather than discounting the spread of an intelligent civilization, the Fermi Paradox merely points out that advanced civilizations with exponential [...]

Photo of volcanic eruption taken from space 
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, and it is [...]

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan getting married in 727 at zero gravity
I am very fond of love. It makes people do silly things, giddy things, and, sometimes, very strange things indeed.
However, I am full of vicarious admiration for Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan, a Brooklyn couple who decided to do silly, strange, and giddy all [...]

 
Dense knots of dust in otherwise normal galaxies dim the light of a dark gamma-ray burst
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s biggest explosions, capable of producing so much light that ground-based telescopes easily detect it billions of light-years away. Yet, for more than a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the nature of so-called dark bursts, which [...]

 
This conceptual image shows how Spaceport America is expected to look at completion in 2010
The tantalising prospect of escaping the Earth’s atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness has been in the pipeline for two years. And now it’s officially arrived.

NASA has plans to fire a rocket into the moon to create a six-mile high explosion
In an unprecedented scientific endeavor – and what may be one of the coolest space missions ever – NASA is preparing to fly a rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm the presence [...]

Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability
Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as food for plant life will disappear, pulled out by the weathering [...]

The technology allows astronomers to see planets of Jupiter’s mass in other galaxies  
Researchers from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) claim it is the first planet to be seen outside of our galaxy.
The scientists used a new method of viewing space called microlensing. The method uses a nearer object to bend the light of [...]

You will need to buy a lot of motion sickness medicine before making this purchase
For $6,000 on eBay, you could land a Spaceball 2000 human gyroscope, “based on NASA’s Astronaut Gyroscope Trainer.” It’s designed / built to ASTM Standards and features a hydraulic-powered motor. Auction page.

Hey mom look what I found
While some 14-year-olds are scoring their mall to find the latest fashions, Caroline Moore discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy.

Gerrit holds the meteorite and on the back of the other the graze it left can be seen  
The odds of it happening are astronomical, but not impossible, as one schoolboy found out when he was struck by a passing meteorite.
The rock flew down from space at speeds of 30,000mph, and grazed past 14-year-old Gerrit Blank [...]

Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike.

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that “the inevitable future of the starless cloud Barnard 68″ is to collapse and give rise to a new star, according to an article which has been published [...]

Disruption of planetary oribits could lead to collision with Earth
The solar system’s clockwork motion is by no means guaranteed, for new computer simulations suggests a slight chance that a disruption of planetary orbits could lead to a collision of Earth with Mercury, Mars or Venus in future.

Core-collapse (or gravitational) supernovae are among the most energetic and violent events in the universe. They constitute the final tremendous explosions that end the life cycles of stars more massive than approximately 8 times the Sun.

 
A giant pneumatic structure could let people climb 20 km without the need for a rocket  
A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, its proponents claim.

Going boldly where no man has gone before is likely to leave you going bald, claims scientists – not to mention fat and ugly.
Making long space journeys, like those envisaged in the future, will not be good for your looks or figure, claim scientists who believe they will leave astronauts looking short, fat and bald.

 
Earth Gets 1 Billion Year Life Extension
The Earth could be habitable for another 2.3 billion years, extending previous estimates of life’s horizon by more than 1 billion years.
King Fai Li and his colleagues at Caltech hypothesize that Earth’s atmospheric pressure has always varied, and that it could fall in the distant future, keeping Earth from frying [...]

Cosmic ghost. ohhh spooky
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a cosmic “ghost” lurking around a distant supermassive black hole. This is the first detection of such a high-energy apparition, and scientists think it is evidence of a huge eruption produced by the black hole.

Two things came to mind when I was reading this article (back the future and/or bigger is better)
The design of a gargantuan telescope that will give astronomers their first glimpse into the farthest, faintest depths of the universe is well on its way, guided by Canadian and U.S. scientists and the company that will build [...]