Mars' first manned mission draws flood of applicants

	Mars' first manned mission draws flood of applicants Washington, Apr. 17 (ANI): Applications are already rolling in for the first manned mission to Mars, it has been revealed. Speaking at the National Space Symposium here, Inspiration Mars Foundation members described the challenges inherent in launching ...
	NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test PASADENA, Calif. -- An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test. The test assessed performance of the Near Earth Object Camera (NEOCam) in an environment that ...
	Dark matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues Researchers have revealed the first potential hints of the elusive material called dark matter at an underground laboratory in the US. Though it is believed to make up a quarter of our Universe, dark matter - true to its name - has never been seen. Scientists at ...
	Massive binary star weighing 400 solar masses discovered Massive binary star weighing 400 solar masses discovered Washington: A binary star that potentially weighed 300 to 400 solar masses at birth has been observed, which astronomers believe that could be the most massive double star discovered so far.
	Higgs data could spell trouble for leading Big Bang theory Universe's latest baby picture combines with LHC findings to raise new questions about cosmic 'inflation'. Zeeya Merali. 16 April 2013. Data on the Higgs boson from the Large Hadron Collider (pictured), together with a recent mapping of the microwave sky, ...
	Nanosuits help small creatures survive a vacuum (A–D) A living Drosophila larva was exposed to high vacuum with electron-beam irradiation for 60 min. (F and G) Before SEM observation, a different larva (light micrograph in F) was placed in the observation chamber without electron-beam irradiation for 60 ...
	UC Berkeley selected to build NASA's next space weather satellite NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth's weather affects weather at the edge of space, in hopes of improving forecasts of extreme “space weather” that can disrupt global ...
	Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria Oceanic sediment contains an iron isotope that ancient bacteria accumulated 2.2 million years ago when debris rained on Earth from a supernova explosion. Shown are the remnants of a much younger supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A, shown in a ...
	Rare long gamma ray bursts caused by supergiant star's death, says researchers There are two types of gamma-ray bursts: short and long. The short GRBs last a very short duration, a maximum of two seconds but sometimes even less. The longer ones are still relatively short, coming in at more than two seconds and sometimes several ...
	Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo completes 'Cold Flow' test California: Commercial space travel has come closer to reality with the successful completion of the 'Cold Flow' flight test of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. The flight test was conducted above the Mojave Desert, California on April 12, Virgin ...