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Hard Science Sites for Science Fiction Author Research

AIR | The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) - kind of like the New Scientist crossed with Viz.
USA--Only English language

Alien Planet Designer | Page to help people understand the general physics of stellar and planetary systems.
UK--Only English language

Encyclopedia Astronautica | Information on space exploration. Includes articles on Soviet manned spacecraft, including military, lunar, and Mars projects that were developed but never successfully flew.
UK--Only English language

Extra-Solar Planets Encyclopedia | Details on the real search for extrasolar planets.
France--Other + some English translation

Foresight Institute | Dedicated to nanotechnology and the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision.
USA--Only English language

Impact | Describes the effects of a large comet impact, mitigation approaches and survival planning.
USA--Only English language

NASA | See also http://issa-www.jsc.nasa.gov/ for the space station and http://rlv.msfc.nasa.gov/ for the reusable space craft project.
USA--Only English language

NASA's Deadly Impact site | Official site looking at asteroid and comet impact hazards.
USA--Only English language

Nature Magazine (The Journal of Science) | World’s main science magazine for the science professional. Great place for cribbing sf ideas from. Published Darwin’s theory of evolution, Einstein’s theory of relativity and thingy & Crick’s discovery of the DNA helix. I’m biased, I used to work for them, running their web site (did I tell you it won the Publisher’s Association ‘oscar’ for best web site after I had set it up? Oh, If only I had their money to spend on this rag).
UK--Only English language

New Scientist | UK’s most popular science magazine for non-professionals. Great place for cribbing sf ideas from.
UK--Only English language

Sky and Telescope magazine | Professional print magazine for astronomy.
USA--Only English language

Space Drives | Site dedicated to space drives; or as they explain: non-rocket type aerospace propulsion engines.
USA--Only English language

The American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science news by subject; everything from global warming to chaos theory.
USA--Only English language

The ESA Homepage (European Space Agency) | Not exactly NASA, but what the heck; one day, eh?
Italy--Only English language

The IKI (Russian Space Agency) | Space organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences, investigating outer space, solar system planets and other objects in the universe.
Russia--Only English language

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