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SpaceX shows off new nav gear with latest Grasshopper rocket launch-and-landing (video) Video. NASA discovers portals (but don’t book your ticket yet) Madeleine L’Engle called them tesseracts.

NASA discovers portals (but don’t book your ticket yet)

The Syfy channel calls them wormholes. Gamers call them portals. Whatever you call them, they are fictional doorways to faraway places: another planet in the solar system … another star in the galaxy … another restaurant where the service doesn’t suck quite so bad. Scientists discover most accurate clocks in the universe. Time in space has always been an elusive issue for scientists who have long struggled to find a constant standard.

Scientists discover most accurate clocks in the universe

But a new discovery may help us understand time as never before. Space.com reports that scientists are now using pulsars — rapidly spinning stars that pulse over time — to tell the universe’s time. This is due to a recent revelation about how pulsars function and rotate. A pulsar is a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation. When this radiation is pointed towards the Earth, we can see it much as we see the light from a lighthouse. New kind of planet discovered. The planets in our solar system get along with each other pretty well.

New kind of planet discovered

But sometimes when multiple planets orbit the same star, there’s a confrontation – that is, the gravity of one planet interferes with another’s. In this way, smaller ones can get kicked out, left to float in the dark without a star to go around. These “lonely planets” represent an entirely new category of planets, and are perhaps more numerous in our galaxy than stars, scientists report Wednesday in the journal Nature. "It gives us a good clue about how planet formation works. Video. Want to Fly Around the Moon? Commercial Spaceship Gets Another Seat.

Room for one more?

Want to Fly Around the Moon? Commercial Spaceship Gets Another Seat

Virginia-based Space Adventures announced Thursday that it will add another seat to a Soyuz spacecraft that will take space tourists into low-Earth orbit by 2015. How Hydrogen May Expand the Search for Alien Life – National Geographic News Watch. When people talk about finding life among the stars, it’s often a fairy tale that comes to mind.

How Hydrogen May Expand the Search for Alien Life – National Geographic News Watch

That’s because we on Earth really hope to find a planet like ours in what’s called the Goldilocks zone—a region not too close and not too far from the star, but at just the right distance to support liquid water on a planet’s surface. On Earth, water is arguably the most important ingredient for life, so it makes sense that we tend to think of it as a necessary criterion for habitable planets. Still [as is often the case in cutting-edge science] there’s always the chance that we’re wrong, and looking for life *exactly* as we know it may be limiting the search.

In a new paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, planetary scientists Raymond Pierrehumbert and Eric Gaidos describe how life might evolve on a world outside the traditional habitable zone, thanks to a thick hydrogen atmosphere creating an unusual version of the planet-warming greenhouse effect. Alien life existed, NASA scientist claims - Technology & Science. Multiple filaments and sheaths embedded in this meteorite could point to extraterrestrial life, says NASA scienist Richard Hoover. (Richard Hoover/The Journal of Cosmology) A NASA scientist says he has found fossilized evidence of alien life in the remains of a meteorite, which if confirmed would bolster the theory that life is not restricted to Earth. The claim that several types of meteorites contain fossils of microscopic creatures similar to cyanobacteria — also known blue-green algae — that originated beyond Earth has predictably created a stir, and 100 experts have been invited to review the research.

Astrobiologist Richard Hoover, who works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., made the claim in a study published online late Friday in the peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of Cosmology . Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment. NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment May 4, 2011: Einstein was right again.

Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment

There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B). "The space-time around Earth appears to be distorted just as general relativity predicts," says Stanford University physicist Francis Everitt, principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B mission.

"This is an epic result," adds Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Ten things you don’t know about black holes. Well, they’re black, and they’re like bottomless holes.

Ten things you don’t know about black holes

What would you call them? -Me, when a friend asked me why they’re named what they are Ah, black holes. Seriously jaw-dropping picture of the Sun. Need your slice of awesome today?

Seriously jaw-dropping picture of the Sun

Then check out this truly astonishing picture of a detached prominence off the limb of the Sun: Holy wow! Click to ensolarnate. The Alien Moon - Why NASA Never Returned To The Moon. From: youtube.com Part 1 Part 2 See Part 3 on Flying Serpents here Videos From: youtube.com.

The Alien Moon - Why NASA Never Returned To The Moon

Greatredspot.jpg (JPEG Image, 1825x1190 pixels) '100 percent' chance for life on newly found planet? An artist rendering shows the four inner planets of the Gliese 581 system and their host star.

'100 percent' chance for life on newly found planet?

Gliese 581g may be the new Earth. Astronomers have discovered a habitable planet 20 light years away. File:Laser Towards Milky Ways Centre.jpg. Here Is What You Missed During Last Night's Eclipse. Pluto May Host an Ocean. Physicists discover "violation of a fundamental symmetry of the universe" The solar system is two million years older than we thought...and that changes everything. Massive Jupiter-Sized Dark Object May Lurk at Edge of Solar System. Comet data that has been collected for over a century suggests that a dark Jupiter sized object is lurking at the edge of the solar system, and may be hurling ice and dust chunks towards Earth. Planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana explained that 10 years worth of data were added to the initial research to test the hypothesis.

“Only now should we be able to falsify or verify that you could have a Jupiter-mass object out there.” Matese, along with his colleague, Daniel Whitmire, think there is a hidden companion to the Sun in the Oort Cloud that is booting icy bodies into the inner solar system where they can be seen. Distant Star Enveloped By Ingredients for Fake Diamonds. A faraway star sparkles with the largest amount of zirconium ? The stuff fake diamonds are made from ? Ever seen, according to a new study. The star has about 10,000 times more zirconium than our sun, in a form never recorded by astronomers before, researchers said.

Future explorers could reach the Earthlike planet Zarmina in just 6.1 years. Spaceman: Landing on Mars in 2016. NASA contemplates manned mission to Mars - one-way. The project for human colonization of the Red Planet is called the Hundred Year Starship, and the space agency has already received $1.6 million in seed funding to begin research into it, Britain's Daily Mail reports. The source of the $1.6 million has not been revealed. NASA itself is chipping in $100,000 to fund the Ames Research Center team's initial work, which is being co-sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Worden publicly disclosed the project's existence in a talk that was part of an event called "Long Conversation," a six-hour roundtable idea exchange that took place Oct. 16 at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum.

"The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds. "Page One" Story of the Century? NASA May Announce Thursday to Have Found Life on Saturn's Moon Titan. Alien Speech Found In NASA's Saturn Radio Signal. Saturn Moon Has Oxygen Atmosphere. An oxygen atmosphere has been found on Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, astronomers announced Thursday—but don't hold your breath for colonization opportunities. Incredible Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock. Would you go to Mars and never come back? The big cost of traveling to Mars is in the coming back. First humanoid robot in space about to blast off. First humanoid robot to be sent to space Help with cleaning International Space Station Currently only a top half. Legs to follow. Robonaut 2 will fly to the International Space Station this week.

Picture: NASA. Hubble finds a star eating a planet. World Action Plan Emerging to Combat Asteroid Threat. DARMSTADT, Germany ? Space agencies around the world are working to be ready to coordinate their response to any potentially harmful asteroid headed for Earth. The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts To Mars.

You might expect to find our brightest hope for sending astronauts to other planets in Houston, at NASA's Johnson Space Center, inside a high-security multibillion-dollar facility. Superearth Family Planets, Water-World Gliese 581c, Carbon Planets etc. PT1/2 Journey to the Edge of the Universe.