NASA scientists win Nobel prize for Big Bang
The Nobel Prize for Physics this year has been won by two Americans, John Mather and George F. Smoot for their work with the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) Satellite in helping to cement and provide more scientific proof for the Big Bang Theory. The two scientists used the COBE to show that there were minute changes in temperature over a large distance, responsible for the non-even spread of matter across the universe.…
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It's one small step for 'a' man
A computer programmer from Australia claims to have found the missing letter in Neil Armstrong's first broadcast from the surface of the moon, vindicating Armstrong and necessitating the corrections of millions of textbooks, manuscripts, and the like everywhere.…
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Kennedy Space Center could see more commercial activity
With the twilight of NASA's Space Shuttle program approaching as soon as 2010, the Kennedy Space Center is considering opening its runways to private space launch companies.
The venture would work alongside the development of Lockheed Martin's Orion project for the Space Shuttle replacement.…
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SpaceShipTwo hopes to make suborbital space travel routine
Following the success obtained by SpaceShipOne in 2004, Virgin Galactic announced the start of the development of SpaceShipTwo.
The spacecraft, scheduled for completion in 2008, aims to be able to carry a total of eight people - two pilots and six passengers - at a height of roughly 122 kilometers (400,000 feet), beating its predecessor's altitude by nearly nine percent.…
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New diffuse ring is discovered around SaturnRing first visible in high angle photographs
During a special orbit, the Cassini spacecraft discovered a new ring around Saturn, Space.com reported last week.
The spacecraft's orbit took it behind the planet in such a way that Saturn would eclipse the sun for 12 full hours, instead of the typical hour of previous orbits.…
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Space storms causes hiss
Space Weather, according to Space.com, is described as a stream of constantly changing charged particles released from the sun, which excites the Aurora (Northern and Southern Lights). This barrage of charged particles can threaten satellites and electrical grids and is also part of the creation of plasmaspheric hiss.…
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Ozone hole at record sizeNASA, UN confirm hole biggest ever
Confirmed by both NASA and the U.N. Weather Agency, the ozone hole over Antarctica has reached a record size. While the numbers vary, between nine million square miles at the low end and 18.3 million square miles at the high end, both agencies agree that the area has surpassed the previous record, which was set back in 2000.…
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