NASA's cool 3D satellite tracker

Using a java plug-in, NASA's satellite tracker gives viewers a manipulable 3D view of every major satellite in earth-orbit.
 

Comet Lovejoy continues to amaze - see it now

Following its recent close encounter with the sun, Comet Lovejoy is offering an early-morning spectacle.
 

Total lunar eclipse this coming weekend

For the night-owls, look up in the northern sky a little after midnight on Sunday December 11th and the moon which ought to be blazing down will be strangely dim.
 

Space is yours for $200,000, or $95,000

Virgin Galactic just announced that for $200,000 you can reserve a suborbital trip into space on its SpaceShipTwo. However, a little known company is offering similar trips for less than half that amount.
 

UARS – It was the Pacific, not Canada

Despite many reports to the contrary, it seems UARS fell into the southern equatorial Pacific, not Canada.
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UARS is down in south-western Canada

Early reports are just in; UARS fragments have been discovered south of Calgary in Canada.
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Photographic proof: the Apollo moon landings were real

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the clearest images yet of the various Apollo landing sites.  Memo to the nay-sayers: the landings really did happen - here's photographic proof.
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Einstein was right! NASA probe confirms relativity

In planning since 1959, NASA's Gravity Probe B was launched in 2004 to test two key predictions of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  With great success.
 

Australia: so, where are those pesky Geminids?

We hear so much about the wonder of the Geminid meteors, but how do we see them in Australia?
 

NewSat woos independents, attacks NBN

Satellite operator NewSat has launched a broadside against the National Broadband Network calling on the three independent MPs who hold the key to forming the next federal government to look at alternative technology solutions.