Last week we wrote that a German school boy had found an error in NASA’s Apophis calculations and come up with much higher impact probability. German Nico Marquardt calculated Apophis impact probability to 1/450 while NASA estimated it to be 1/45.000. Current understanding is that Nico Marquardt’s calculation is not valid and this …

Only a 13-year-old school boy found an error in NASA’s calculation and came up with much larger probability for the killer-asteroid Apophis to strike the Earth. According to NASA Apophis has 1/45.000 probability to strike the Earth. 13 years old Nico Marquardt noticed an error in NASA’s calculation and corrected it to staggering …

European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting new astronauts. Anyone can leave an open application to ESA and therefore has a change to fly to space one day. Last time ESA recruited astronauts was in 1992. The overall selection process will start on Monday 19 May. The selected candidated will be trained in European …

In March we asked you “Are You Afraid Of Comet Strikes?“. According to the results, most people are not afraid of comet strikes. This was not surprising for me, even though sometimes provokes with comets passing near to our planet. According to the poll, 81% (51/63 votes) of those who answered are not …

American company called Celestis provides you a chance to be buried in the Moon. The first launch is scheduled to happen on next year. Price for this last journey is $9995. For this price 1 g of your ash can be transferred to the Moon. The price includes also a name plate.
This is …

Finnish researchers have discovered the largest known black hole so far. This massive black hole is lurking in the middle of quasar OJ 287, about 3.5 billion light years away from the Earth. The discovery of Finnish scientists was published last in Astrophysical Journal by Mr. Mauri Valtonen
This recently discovered black hole has …

European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jules Verne, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), is reaching its “parking orbit” near the International Space Station (ISS). Jules Verne is a new type of ATV’s and will dock to ISS on April 3rd, if everything goes fine. So far everything has worked well.
“ATV works fine and our team …

SpaceFlightNow.Com writes that astronauts in the orbit have enjoyed some off-duty time, which was really needed. “We’re having a great time, taking a break, just relaxing a little bit”, says Peggy Whitson when interviewed by CBS News. “I think we really needed it. For the station guys and for the shuttle guys, we …

We have set the new prize for our April free give-away contest! February’s giveaway, two IMAX DVD’s of the international space station, goes to to Kedar M. from Switzerland. In the end of April 2008 one of our weekly newsletter subscribers will receive this fantastic book written by well-known Stephen Hawking and his …

During the last one and a half years Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has mapped the surface of Mars with its powerful HiRISE-camera. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and has opened us a whole new era in space research. We can see now pictures of Mars that are even sharper than pictures taken by spy satellites.
“HiRISE can …