A daily digest of space exploration news, with links to articles from
various media on the net. Sometimes the reporters get the story first, but
often you can read the original press releases on the
sci.space.news newsgroup.
This joint project of Nature and the Institute of Physics requires a
subscription to see the full text of most articles, but it has one free one
per week and access to brief entries and "Breaking News".
The Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration of the Space Studies Board
of the National Research Council evaluates US planetary studies.
The full text of COMPLEX reports are online:
Links to as many observatory schedules as I could find. Many of them are from
the
AstroWeb observatory schedule page, but I tracked down a few myself and
included SAO's schedules which are restricted to Center for Astrophysics staff only.
This site has plenty of information on terraforming, life in extreme
environments (vacuum, high radiation, ice), and the search for
extra-terrestrial intelligence, among other things.
The UC Berkeley SETI Program, SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial
Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) is an
ongoing scientific research effort aimed at detecting radio signals from
extraterrestrial civilizations. This site describes the SERENDIP project
and discusses the status of the search.
This is a grand experiment to harness the spare power of hundreds
of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by spreading around the analysis
of data from Arecibo.
The Magazine of SETI and Bioastronomy, provides both professional
and amateur astronomers with information concerning SETI (Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and bioastronomy.
