Voyager to acquire lunar lander developer Astrobotic 5d ago SpaceNews · Jeff Foust Space Stations & HabitatsSpace Defense Systems
Researchers call for regulations to protect low Earth orbit environment 5d ago SpaceNews · Leonard David
SpaceX’s Initial Public Offering of Stock: A Prospectus on the Future 5d ago Inside Outer Space · Leonard David Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
A single cumulus cloud — the kind that looks like a fluffy white pillow drifting across a summer sky — typically contains hundreds of tons of water by weight, suspended in the air because the water droplets are small enough that air resistance keeps them aloft against the pull of gravity 5d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Supermassive black holes are pointing jets of plasma directly at Earth — and a population of them may have produced the highest-energy neutrino ever recorded 5d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
On a sunny day, the top of the Eiffel Tower slowly drifts in a small circle about six inches wide — it isn’t the wind, it’s the sun, heating one side of the iron at a time and making the whole tower lean a little away from whichever side is warmest 5d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Sound travels about four times faster underwater than it does through air — which is why whale songs can travel hundreds of miles across the ocean, and why early submarine sonar operators sometimes picked up the calls of distant whales communicating from hundreds of miles away 5d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire — teaching at Oxford began in 1096, while the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325, which means Oxford was already more than two centuries old by the time the civilization that built one of the most sophisticated cities of the medieval world had even begun 5d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
NASA abandons ‘core module’ concept for commercial space station development 5d ago SpaceNews · Jeff Foust
Parts of Canada are quietly short on gravity. The standard story blames an ice sheet that pressed the crust down and vanished thousands of years ago, but satellites suggest that explains less than half of it. The rest comes from something churning far deeper in the mantle. 5d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Saab awarded order for Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System Base Kits by U.S. Army 5d ago Saab Sensis Corporation
Saab awarded order for Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System Base Kits by U.S. Army 5d ago Saab Sensis Corporation
