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Three Astronauts Dock for Stay on Space Station
Russian Soyuz Capsule Delivers American, Italian and Russian to Station 220 Miles Above Earth, Boosting Crew to 6
Voyager 1 Spacecraft Near Solar System's Edge
Launched in 1977, NASA's Unmanned Ship Has Probed Planetary Neighbors, Void of Space
Moon's mighty ridge stirs debate
Scientists develop a new theory to explain the Solar System's most spectacular mountain range - the giant ridge on Saturnian moon Iapetus.
NASA Rocket Flies Through Earth's Shimmery Auroras
Scientists want to understand why these light shows appear to slow down satellites orbiting the Earth.
NASA names new chief scientist
GREENBELT, Md., Dec. 14 (UPI) -- NASA says it has named Waleed Abdalati as the agency's chief scientist who will represent all of the scientific endeavors within the agency.
U.S. could see 'historic' drought
TUCSON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- An unprecedented combination of heat and decades of drought could be in store for the U.S. Southwest sometime this century, researchers say.
Scientists catch X-rays from lightning
Researchers for the first time have captured X-ray images of lightning, a feat that they hope will help them better predict how lightning moves.
Ice Volcano Found on Saturn Moon Titan
For the first time, scientists now have solid evidence for an ice volcano on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, according to a new study.
Global eruption rocks the sun
On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed...
NASA Solar Sail Vanishes in Space
NASA's solar-powered sail craft NanoSail-D is missing, and scientists don't know whether it's adrift...
Video: Navy's Record-Breaking Missile Launch
The U.S. Navy says its electromagnetic railgun is the cannon of the future. On December 10, 2010, the gun launched a non-explosive missile at 33 megajoules, tripling the record it...
Huge Solar Explosions Can Rock the Entire Sun
Violent explosions on the sun can be global events, interconnected by magnetism over vast distances, according to a new study.
NASA Halts Monkey Radiation Experiment for Now
NASA appears to have pulled an experiment to expose monkeys to radiation to study its effects on astronauts.
Researchers Find Evidence of Other Universes Lurking in the Cosmic Background
'Cosmic Bruises' in the CMB Feeny, et. al.Our poor universe shows bruises from collisions with other universes Just when the search for exoplanets looked like the undisputed fashionable field of study for 2010,...
Space sensor makes bolts smarter
Technology developed for the International Space Station and a Mars rover is helping European auto-parts manufacturers to engineer lighter, stronger and safer drivetrains and axles.
First four exoplanet systems imaged
Among one of the first exoplanet systems imaged was HR 8799. In 2008, a team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, took a picture...
Webb telescope's actuators: Curving mirrors in space
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is a wonder of modern engineering. As the planned successor to the Hubble Space telescope, even the smallest of parts on this giant observatory will...
Jellyfish counterattack in winter
A study carried out over 50 years by an international team, with the participation of the Balearic Oceanography Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) has confirmed an increase...
Eckhardt Center to Provide Home for Precision Science
The University of Chicago next September will begin construction of the William Eckhardt Research Center, an architecturally innovative building that will host a broad spectrum of 21st-century science.
Dark Sky Park put on meteor watch
A spectacular meteor display is expected overnight at the UK's first Dark Sky Park in south west Scotland.
Video: NYT Tech Editor David Pogue's Best Gift Ideas
From iPad and Kinect to Scrabble flash cubes and prank gifts, David Pogue gives his take on the year's best tech gadget Christmas presents.
Navy Railgun Gets Tested - Get Ready For Science Fiction Warfare In 2025
If you have read any science fiction, you know what a railgun is; instead of using a projectile hurled by an explosion, the idea is to use an electomagnetic current...
Cosmic Log: Season's readings in science
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Looking for a science book to give? Here's a lineup of award-winners ranging from children's books to coffee-table volumes.
Neil Armstrong Explains His Famous Apollo 11 Moonwalk
Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong may be notoriously private, but the first man on the moon recently reached out to a reporter to set the record straight about his famous...
Space Pictures This Week: Sun Snake, Ice Curtain, More
A plasma loop erupts from the sun, Falcon 9 takes flight, Hubble spies a star-spangled "eagle," and more in the week's best space pictures.
'Transformers 3' Film Trailer Rewrites Historic Moon Landing
Houston, we have alien robots: NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing of 1969 has taken new twist in the teaser trailer for the science fiction film "Transformers: The Dark of the...
'Superscope' yields first glimpse
The E-Merlin radio telescope array, recently upgraded with fibre-optic technology, has yielded its first image - of the intriguing Double Quasar.
WISE sees an explosion of infrared light
A circular rainbow appears like a halo around an exploded star in a new view of the IC 443 nebula from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. When massive...