The University of Arizona, Tucson, which operates HiRISE, has just released a new batch of photos taken from a camera flying over the planet Mars. continue reading...

British aeronautical engineer was playing around with the new Google Earth 5.0, which includes undersea data, and noticed something funny off the coast of Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, that resembled a pattern of a street grid. continue reading...

Greenland, the world’s largest island, holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by 23 feet. Add the ice sheets of Antarctica and the oceans would deepen more than 200 feet! continue reading...

Space-industry belt-tightening and ever shrinking technology are combining to give tiny satellites a big future, scientists say. continue reading...

PASADENA, California (AP) — At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday. continue reading...

POWAY, CA–(Marketwire - March 20, 2008) - SpaceDev, Inc. has been awarded a contract from IHI-Aerospace (Japan) to manufacture multiple flight ship-sets of precision space mechanisms for the H2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV). Included are low-shock release devices used to restrain the HTV’s exposed cargo pallet during launch, and release it on orbit for transfer to the International Space Station. The contract also calls for SpaceDev to supply high-output paraffin release mechanisms and a brush motor. Hardware for operational HTV spacecraft will be delivered over the next six years. continue reading...

Someone is lying?

Russia says the U.S. military’s plan to shoot down a spy satellite hurtling toward Earth is a veiled test of their missile system. continue reading...

ITHACA, NY–(Marketwire - October 26, 2007) - Flight engineer Sunita Williams wields a hand-held drill outside the International Space Station. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin sets up a scientific experiment package on the desolate lunar surface. STS-11 crew members Jim Reilly and Danny Olivas make an odd couple in orbit, working head-to-toe during a 17,000 mph spacewalk. These stunning images of astronauts at work are just a few of the 53 breathtaking outer space images that appear in the limited-edition “Year In Space” 2008 Desk Calendar, an award-winning 144-page weekly calendar featuring images and information from the past, present and future of space exploration and astronomical discovery. http://www.YearInSpace.com. continue reading...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — BioSpace, the leading life science industry job board and career fair company, welcomed over 1,500 biotech and pharmaceutical industry professionals to a BioSpace Career Fair in Burlingame, California on October 10.

The event produced a record breaking number of well qualified biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics candidates. This history-making career fair offered a variety of biotech jobs, pharmaceutical sales careers, biology jobs, clinical research jobs, as well as many other life science careers. Some of the organizations hiring qualified candidates included Abbott Laboratories, Baxter International, Elan Pharmaceuticals, FibroGen, Nektar Therapeutics, Novartis, Rinat, and many others. continue reading...