As SpaceX Unveils Space Tourist Moon Flight, NASA Reacts

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As SpaceX Unveils Space Tourist Moon Flight, NASA Reacts

Space.com
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled an ambitious plan Monday to fly two private space tourists around the moon in 2018. The move drew a commendation from NASA along with a clear reminder that the agency expects SpaceX to meet its other obligations while …

NASA is about to try something you won’t believe

BABW News
NASA is about to launch a spacecraft toward our sun, and you’ll be amazed at what they’re going to try to do with it. NASA has huge plans for our closest star, launching one of the most ambitious missions in years: the Solar Probe Plus.

Watch LIVE: Giraffe giving birth at zoo in upstate New York

FOX 61
HARPURSVILLE, NY – Waiting for birth can be a real pain in the neck – particularly when your neck is about 7-feet tall. A livestream of an upstate New York zoo’s giraffe has captivated watchers since it went up Friday, but there’s still no sign 15

Scientific breakthrough lost? Unique metallic hydrogen sample disappears

Fox News
Scientists reportedly say that the world’s only sample of metallic hydrogen, which was touted as potentially revolutionizing technology, has disappeared.

BREAKING: Mount Etna explodes spurting lava – sparking fears MEGA eruption imminent

Daily Star
A VOLCANO has started to erupt sparking fears a huge explosion of lava and ash could be imminent. 0. By Henry Holloway / Published 28th February 2017.

Nervous US climate team waits for ‘shoe to drop’ on Paris

E&E News
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shakes hands with State Department employees on his first day earlier this month. Photo by the State Department, courtesy of Flickr.

Apollo 11 Tour Puts Famed Moon Mission Back in Spotlight

NBCNews.com
Nearly 50 years after NASA’s first moon landing, the Apollo 11 command module is set to tour the U.S. Here’s a look back at the mission.

Scientists: We Shouldn’t Bring Back Extinct Species

Gizmodo  – ‎21 hours ago‎
Earlier this month, the media was abuzz about “de-extinction,” after Harvard scientist George Church claimed we’d be able to grow a (probably non-viable) wooly mammoth embryo in the next few years.

Polar Bears and Climate Change: The Photographs That Moved Them Most

TIME  – ‎15 hours ago‎
Images, whether captured by a satellite, a scientist, an explorer, a photojournalist or an artist, enable us to record, study and reflect on our planet’s evolving state.

Behind the Push to Get Pluto Its Planetary Groove Back

Seeker  – ‎55 minutes ago‎
Pluto’s loss of planetary status in 2006 remains controversial. Now a new definition is being proposed that would restore Pluto while increasing the number of “planets” in our solar system to over 110.

Astronomers Discover First Tatooine-Like Star System

I4U News  – ‎1 hour ago‎
The white dwarf is the burn-out core of a star that was probably similar to the Sun, the brown dwarf is only ~60 times heavier than Jupiter, and the two stars go around each other in only a bit over two hours.

More than 80 percent of all wildfires caused by humans, new study says

LA Daily News  – ‎9 hours ago‎
The Colby Fire, a1,700-acre plus brush fire that ignited in the Angeles National Forest north of Glendora threatening homes and prompting mandatory evacuations in Glendora, Calif.

Terrifying prognosis for life on Earth

New York Post  – ‎Feb 26, 2017‎
Half of all animals on Earth will be extinct by the end of the century, and one in five are already at risk, according to a new report.

Space: Where India’s frugal efficiency and China’s ambitious vision are set to clash

Quartz  – ‎9 hours ago‎
Feb. 15, 2017, will be remembered as a day that many top officials of the Chinese space establishment may want to forget. Just a month-and-a-half ago, in December 2016, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) had issued an ambitious white …

Iowa group launches plan to help save monarch butterflies

WRAL.com  – ‎2 hours ago‎
AMES, Iowa – An Iowa group has devised a strategy to keep monarch butterflies off the national endangered species list. The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.

Infants and Dogs May Have Similar Social Intelligence

Apex Tribune  – ‎3 hours ago‎
Researchers indicate that toddlers and dogs appear to have similar social intelligence up to a point. A new study indicated that toddlers and dogs might have similar social intelligence.

NASA just released 3D models and new photos of a massive supernova

Yahoo News  – ‎12 hours ago‎
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of massive supernova called SN 1987A, NASA pointed the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope in its direction once again, snagging an updated photo, but that’s not all the agency has to offer.

Watch: Tucker Carlson battles Bill Nye the Science Guy on global warming

TheBlaze.com  – ‎1 hour ago‎
Watch: Tucker Carlson battles Bill Nye the Science Guy on global warming Tucker Carlson debated Bill Nye “the Science Guy” on Global Climate Change.

National Invasive Species Awareness Week is Underway, Fight Against Quaggas Continues

lakepowelllife  – ‎16 hours ago‎
This week, Feb. 27-Mar. 3, is National Invasive Species Awareness Week, and congressional leaders are hearing from scientists and experts about the threat of invasive species to ecosystems, agriculture, industry and public health.

Study finds peculiar tie between warm climate, slow snowmelt

Yahoo News  – ‎11 hours ago‎
DENVER – Global warming could mean that mountain snow melts at a slower pace, researchers said Monday, a peculiar finding that might be bad news for the West and other regions that depend on snow for water.

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