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Newt Gingrich's Moon Base by 2020: Can It Be Done?
Newt Gingrich promises a lunar colony in less than a decade, but experts question whether it's possible.
VIDEO: Child's toy launched into space
While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying into space does not always have to be rocket science.
Giant Veil of "Cold Plasma" Discovered High Above Earth
Clouds of slow-moving charged particles reach from the top of Earth's atmosphere to a quarter of the distance to the moon, new data show.
Asteroid Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could...
Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Big Solar Storm
High-energy particles raining down around the polar regions generate intense auroras.
Durable NASA rover beginning ninth year of Mars work
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five...
Kremlin TV to air Julian Assange's new show
(AP) -- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new talk show will be broadcast on RT, the Kremlin-funded English-language television station said Wednesday.
Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth
Solar radiation from a massive sun storm -- the largest in nearly a decade -- collided with the Earth's atmosphere, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek...
Video: Solar flare's impact on Earth
The recent solar flare that caught the eye of scientists around the world blasted a vast cloud of atomic particles toward Earth creating a vivid light show and interfering with...
Superconducting detectors offer high-speed astronomy
Superconducting detectors offer high-speed astronomyNature News , 24012012 doi: 10.1038/nature.2012.9864Eric HandMicrowave kinetic inductance detectors could help find gravitational waves and extrasolar planets.
Opportunity Rover Working Through Mars' Winter
Though technically hibernating, as winter progresses at its latitude, the Exploration Rover is delivering data on Mars' rotation; adding to its wealth of discoveries made since making planetfall on January...
'Mars Attacks' Invades Comics for 50th Anniversary
The troublesome Martians of the cult classic are going on the attack once more, led by John Layman and John McCrea.
UFO Lights Spotted Near Los Angeles
UFO video shot near LAX are most likely a camera trick.
Winged Dinosaur Wore Plumage of Black Feathers
Like a raven this dinosaur may have been jet black and ready for flight.
Swiss duo win award for spotting distant planets
A pair of Swiss astrophysicists who were the first to discover a planet from beyond our solar system were honoured Tuesday with a major Spanish science award.
Shuttle Discovery going to Smithsonian
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection.
Earth's cloudy past could reveal exoplanet details
The pattern of clouds on Earth is largely determined by the arrangement of the continents below. Now, astronomers are modeling the clouds at different periods in Earth's past to better...
Can solar flares hurt astronauts?
Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, high-energy photons, cosmic rays space is full of various forms of radiation that a human wouldnt want to be exposed to for very long. Energized...
Russian Scientist's Claim of Life on Venus Proven False
A once-respected Russian scientist claims to have found evidence of life on Venus in 30-year-old photos taken by a Soviet probe, but the claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Massive solar eruption bombards Earth
Check out the latest images as this fast-moving eruption dazzles astronomers
NRL's SoloHI instrument selected for flight on solar orbiter mission
The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter mission...
Calif. volcano crater could come alive
DEATH VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- A volcanic crater in California's Death Valley was created far more recently than previously thought and gives signs of future activity, researchers...
SpaceX 2012: Year of the Dragon
Dragon is a free-flying, reusable spacecraft being developed by SpaceX under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
Storms over Africa from space
NASA released a time lapse video using stills of storms over Africa that was put together by the crew of Expedition on the International Space Station.
Rare Pictures From the Dawn of NASA Spaceflight
Newly released digital scans offer a rare high-resolution glimpse into NASA's Project Gemini, the precursor to the Apollo moon missions.
Weird World! 'Oozing' Alien Planet Is a Super-Earth Wonder
The exoplanet 55 Cancri e is located 40 light-years away in the constellation Cancer.
Stellar embryos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars form as gravity coalesces the gas and dust in interstellar clouds until the material produces clumps dense enough to become stars. But precisely how this happens, and...
Scientist at Work Blog: A Glimpse of Polar History
Scientists in Antarctica encounter curious penguins and eerie relics on a visit to sites where the polar explorers of a century ago ate, slept, worked -- and drank whiskey.