Race to the Moon: 29 Private Teams Vie in Lunar Contest 29 teams are set to compete in the Google Lunar X Prize, a multimillion-dollar race to land a homemade robot on the moon. The competition is meant to spur development of commercial and private spaceflight. Read more on SPACE.com Ban Ki-moon takes climate change to Hollywood | Suzanne Goldenberg UN secretary general and other high-profile climate chiefs to brief entertainment industry during Oscars week Busy days for the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Bodies lie in the streets of Libya’s cities as a ruthless Muammar Gaddafi...

Boeing Offers India Significant Space Cooperation by Staff Writers New Delhi (IANS) Feb 24, 2011 Boeing has offered to partner with India on manned space missions, including on the very significant “composite cryogenic tanks” for the launch and propulsion control of rockets. Read more on SpaceDaily Space shuttle Discovery ready to launch for the last time CAPE CANAVERAL — Nearly four months after it was supposed to launch, Space Shuttle Discovery is full of fuel; its six astronauts are strapped in; and all systems are clear for its final launch – marking the beginning of...

Two planets found sharing one orbit Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before Read more on New Scientist 50bn planets in Milky Way, estimates first cosmic census London, Feb 21 (ANI): The first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy has suggested that there are at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. Read more on ANI via Yahoo! India...

1961 Soviet space capsule to be auctioned in NYC NEW YORK (AP) – Just weeks before the first man shot into outer space in 1961, the Soviets launched a dress rehearsal with a duplicate of the space capsule carrying a cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog. The Vostok 3KA-2 spacecraft _ a twin of the Vostok 3KA-3 that later carried … Read more on The Washington Times 1961 Soviet space capsule to be auctioned in NYC ULA ILNYTZKY Associated Press NEW YORK Just weeks before the first man shot into outer space in 1961, the Soviets launched a dress rehearsal with a duplicate of the space...

NASA’s Glory Satellite to Study Climate-Changing Aerosols NASA continues its transformation this week from space exploration agency to Earth-monitoring organization with the launch of Glory , a satellite that will monitor aerosols (tiny airborne particles) released by tailpipes, smokestacks, volcanoes, forest fires, and even desert winds. Aerosols can cause both cooling and warming of the Earth’s climate–bright-colored aerosols (i.e. sulfates and sea … Read more on Fast Company Magazine NASA delays launch for Earth-orbiting satellite Officials at a military base in...

Russia to Send Olympic Flame into Space Russia is plotting a bold mission to send the Olympic flame where no Olympic flame has gone before — outer space. Read more on FOX 10 Phoenix Welcome to Outer (Head) Space Ready for that trip to Mars? Read more on Psychology Today Dance Review: The Forsythe Company @ Sadler’s Wells David Kern, Esther Balfe and Ander Zaba I don’t believe in outer space , by William Forsythe and performed by The Forsythe Company had its UK premiere at Sadler’s Wells last night. After turning 60 in 2009 Forsythe created this piece as an examination of life and...