An update on the Planetary Society’s solar sail project: LightSail is happening, and I’ll be your new guide – The Planetary Society

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A new and odder than usual exoplanet:

Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has planet formation theorists challenged to explain how such a world could have formed.

Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World – NASA

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The articles in the latest issue of The Space Review:

• Cislunar cinema (part 2) – Part 2 of his Ken Murphy’s review of
  • Cislunar cinema (part 1)
• Decision time for commercial crew – Jeff Foust reports on the SpaceX Dragon V2 roll out and NASA’s upcoming down-select in the commercial crew program.
• The prospect of a grand Africa-Europe partnership to accelerate space development – space and African development
• Secret optics – video interview with a spysat builder
• Review: The Cosmic Cocktail
  • The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
    by Katherine Freese