Space
Cows Have Strange Sixth Sense (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - A study of Google Earth satellite images has revealed that herds of cattle tend to face in the north-south direction of Earth's magnetic lines. Read more…
Cows seem to know which way is north (AP)
AP - Talk about animal magnetism, cows seem to have a built-in compass. No bull: Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say researchers who studied satellite photos of thousands of cows around the world. Read more…
Giant Galaxy Cluster Seen in Early Universe (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - Astronomers have glimpsed the largest cluster of galaxies ever seen in the distant, early universe. Read more…
Obama to address convention Monday by satellite (AFP)
AFP - Barack Obama will address the Denver Democratic convention live via satellite later Monday after a speech by his wife Michelle, according to his White House campaign. Read more…
US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program (AFP)
AFP - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. Read more…
Iran plans to launch telecoms satellite: president (Reuters)
Reuters - Iran plans to launch a telecommunications satellite, the president said on Saturday, using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads. Read more…
Russian Rocket: All Fueled Up, But No Place to Fly (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - In another frustrating foul-up on the path towards converting Soviet-era military missiles into cash-paying satellite launchers, a military-industrial team in Moscow has announced the 'indefinite suspension' of plans to launch an earth resources survey satellite for Thailand. Read more…
Suborbital Rocket Carrying NASA Experiments Crashes off Wallops Island (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON — An Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV-X1 suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic flight experiments was destroyed by range officials shortly after its Friday launch from the U.S. space agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's eastern shore. Read more…
NASA destroys rocket after failed launch (AP)
AP - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after an early morning liftoff. Read more…
At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice (AP)
AP - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday. Read more…
