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SCIENCE: The Far Side of the Moon
NASA on Thursday released a video taken as one of the twin spacecraft in its Grail mission passed over the far side of the Moon.
Photos of Space Love: The Asteroid Eros Up Close
See photos of the asteroid Eros taken by NASA's NEAR space probe in 2000, and other observers.
Second 'Sunken UFO' Claim Doesn't Hold Water
Analysis of two large, mysterious objects spotted on the sea floor.
NASA satellites see wind shear battering Tropical Depression Iggy
NASA satellites have watched as wind shear has torn Cyclone Iggy apart over the last day. NASA infrared satellite imagery showed that Iggy's strongest thunderstorms have been pushed away from...
Punxsutawney Phil Predicts More Winter, but How Accurate Is He?
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, a sign that six more weeks of winter are coming. But how accurate are his predictions?
STAR TRAK for February 2012
As evening twilight fades during February, the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, will highlight the sky as they come into view in the southwest.
Russia to join search for exoplanets
MOSCOW, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Russian astronomers say they will start their own search for planets outside our solar system following U.S. and French successes in finding such exoplanets.
NASA's GCPEx mission: What we don't know about snow
NASA's GCPEx science team is collecting as much data as they can to improve understanding of snow dynamics inside clouds, because they relate to how snow moves through Earth's water...
Strange Supernova - Cold Gas Cloud Molding Space Oddity?
About 15,000 light years from Earth, star remnant G350.1+0.3 has taken shape unlike many circular shaped supernovae. Researchers believe it is expanding into a cold cloud of gas creating the...
Astronaut Launches into TV Frontier on 'Big Bang Theory' Thursday
Astronaut Mike Massimino will test his acting chops on Thursday's airing of the CBS sitcom.
How to See 'Future' Celestial Sights in Pre-Dawn Sky
If you rise extra early, you can catch celestial teasers of the spring and summer night sky.
Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth
A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation...
MP's call to pardon 'hero' Turing
An MP tables a motion calling for computer pioneer Alan Turing to be posthumously pardoned over a conviction for gross indecency.
Polarization imaging: Seeing through the fog of war
Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the development of a new circular polarization filter by a collaborative team of scientists at the Colorado School of Mines and...
Help astronomers measure the solar system
As the bright Mars-crossing asteroid 433 Eros makes its closest approach to Earth since 1975, astronomers around the globe are taking the opportunity to measure its position in the sky,...
'TinKode' Hacker Suspect Arrested for NASA, Government Attacks
Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old believed to be TinKode, a hacker who previously compromised the networks of NASA, the European Space Agency and various U.S. government websites.
Remembering Columbia - 'In Their Own Words'
The last crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia talk about their dreams of being astronauts and the spectacle of flying above the Earth in this retrospective.
New Report Pinpoints NASA's 16 Biggest Space Tech Needs
Space radiation shields for astronauts and solar electric propulsion are on NASA's to-get list.
Glowing Nebula Looks Like Giant Human Face in New Photo
The spectacular new image was captured by one of the telescopes at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Crisp View of Earth
The Suomi N.P.P. satellite is carrying five instruments, the biggest of which, the "Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite," took the photos that were used to create a composite image.
Call for Media: briefing on new results from ESA Planck mission
Media representatives are invited to a briefing on new observations of the Milky Way and other galaxies by ESA's Planck mission.
Precision space maneuvers
Spacecraft must operate with utmost precision when conducting landing maneuvers on other planets, or docking to a space station. To ensure they do not drift off course, imaging sensors collect...
Space Face: Nebula's Stellar Winds Sculpt Human Profile?
Europe's MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope has returned vibrant imagery of the stellar nursery NGC 3324 located in the Carina Nebula. The hot winds of star birth are carving gas and dust....
Nasa's global temperatures in 2011 – big picture
Researchers at Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies have released their annual analysis of global temperatures
Thanks to Plants, We Will Never Find A Planet Like Earth
Astronomers are finding lots of exoplanets that are orbiting stars like the sun, significantly raising the odds that we will find a similar world. But if we do, the chance...
A whiff of interstellar cloud
A whiff of interstellar cloudNature News , 01022012 doi: 10.1038/nature.2012.9948Eric HandNASA satellite sniffs 'alien' atoms from beyond the Solar System.
The future of Fermilab
In this month's Physics World, reviews and careers editor, Margaret Harris, visits the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) to explore what future projects are in the pipeline now that the...
"Solar Systems" Common Across the Galaxy, NASA Probe Hints
A new analysis of Kepler data hints that scientists can add more than 400 new worlds to the NASA mission's confirmed discoveries.