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Plans to build budget trip to Mars
NASA is working with private industry to go well beyond simply supplying ferry flights to the International Space Station, but to Mars on the cheap.
NASA Rover Drives 20 Miles on Mars
NASA's Opportunity rover has been chugging around the Red Planet for more than seven years.
NASA Chief to Workers: Congress Debt Ceiling Talks Won't Stall Space Agency
A memo from NASA chief Charles Bolden reminds workers that the space agency will be open amid debt ceiling talks in Congress.
Best Space Photos of the Week - July 30, 2011
They include a giant meteorite, zero gravity printers for space, a black hole gobbling up gas and more.
Funding for new space telescope in danger
WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- U.S. politicians say they may pull the funding plug on the James Webb Space Telescope, the intended successor to the Hubble telescope with 100...
This Week in the Future, July 25-29, 2011
This Week in the Future, July 25-29, 2011 Baarbarian As the International Space Station zooms past a space berry to splash down in the ocean, dolphins with superpowers look on....
"Planet of the Apes": 6 decades of monkey mayhem
The original 1968 sci-fi classic set a standard that sequels this movie franchise have been hard-pressed to match
What Lies Inside Jupiter?
The clouds of Jupiter hide many mysteries--from the roots of monster storms to possible stores of exotic matter. NASA's Juno spacecraft, scheduled to launch on August 5th, is going...
World Highest and Newest Radio-Telescope Nearly Ready
Over 16,000 feet up in the Chilean Andes, a multi-national group is constructing a complex antenna that could revolutionize our understanding the origins of the universe.
Q&A: Philippe Mawoko on Africa's new science observatory
Philippe Mawoko, the first head of the African science observatory currently under construction in Equatorial Guinea, speaks to SciDev.Net about the new institution.
Podcast: Brain Shrinkage, Black Hole Collisions, and Electro-Sensing Dolphins
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
Searchers of Ringed Alien Planets Put Faith in Kepler Probe
Saturn's rings may not be unique to our solar system.
Massive Sun 'Twister' Swirls Up 12 Earths High
The solar twister was nearly 150,000 kilometers tall.
Double the Rubble
Astronomers think that each of Epsilon Eridani's asteroid belts could have a planet orbiting just outside it, shepherding its rocky debris into a ring in the same way that Jupiter...
Former NASA Astronaut Lisa Nowak Expelled from Navy
Lisa Nowak will retire from the Navy with an "other than honorable" discharge.
Robotic Lander Prototype Free Flight
NANASA's Robotic Lander Development Project is testing new pulsed thrusters, sensors, software and more. These tests will help develop the next generation in science research capable un-manned landers for multiple...
Earth's Stabilizing Moon May Be Unique Within Universe
Earth's moon may be unique throughout the universe.
Climate Models Get Energy Balance Wrong
Data from NASA's Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth's atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have...
NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought
New data from NASA's Aqua spacecraft highlight the extreme dryness that is currently gripping northeast Africa, contributing to spreading famine.
Senate Subpoena Orders NASA to Deliver Documents On Big New Rocket
The subpoena orders NASA to hand over documents on the new Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.
SOHO watches a comet fading away
On Nov. 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI spacecraft came within 450 miles of Comet Hartley 2, a small comet not even a mile in diameter, which takes about six and a...
VIDEO: Crocodiles hatch at Norwich farm
A farm in Cambridgeshire thinks it has made history by being the first in the country to hatch Nile crocodiles.
Space Pictures This Week: Superbubble, Kinky Galaxy, More
Stars blow a huge bubble in space, the space shuttle seems to drop from the sky, and more in the week's best space pictures.
How to Keep Lonely Exoplanets Snug: Just Add Dark Matter
Dark matter could help life evolve and survive on distant worlds outside of our solar system, a new study says.
Private Rocket Plane for Space Tourists Takes Break from Test Flights
Virgin Galactic is taking a summer hiatus from test flights of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle.
Green: Permaculture Gains a Following
You can find permaculturists setting up worm trays and bee boxes, aquaponics ponds and chicken roosts, composting toilets and rain barrels, solar panels and earth houses.
Earth's Tallest Lightning Seen in Unprecedented Detail
Gigantic jets shoot from clouds to upper atmosphere.
Nobel prize-winners to support research centre in Panama
New infrastructure and international alliances are the most recent steps in Panama’s plan to become a science hub in Central America.