News tagged with virgin galactic

Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight

Oct 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

(AP) -- When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he'd soon be on a rocket ride of his own.

RocketShip Tours Teams Up With XCOR Aerospace To Offer A $95,000 Right Stuff Experience

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 04, 2008 | 4 / 5 (25) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race to offer commercial passengers an experience of a lifetime just got more affordable. RocketShip Tours owned by Jules Klar, a veteran in the travel business will arrange a sub-orbital ...

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Voyager makes an interstellar discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 26, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (55) | 21

The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.

Vampires and collisions rejuvenate stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 23, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 2

Stars in globular clusters are generally extremely old, with ages of 12-13 billion years. However, a small fraction of them appear to be significantly younger than the average population and, because they ...

Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A find of 60 headless skeletons summer 2009 may reveal the identity of the people who first inhabited the Pacific Ocean archipelago Vanuatu 3000 years ago.

Calif. space tourism firm launches S. Korea deal

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- A California company developing a rocket plane for space tourism announced Thursday that it has an agreement with a nonprofit group in South Korea to conduct launches in that nation.

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 1

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...

Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...

NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...

Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest ...

Scientists observe super-massive black holes using Keck Observatory in Hawaii

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (8) | 3

An international team of scientists has observed four super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, which may provide new information on how these central black hole systems operate. Their findings ...