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Launch of privately-built Danish rocket delayed: builder
The launch into space of Denmark's first privately-built rocket has been postponed to Thursday due to bad weather conditions, one of its builders said.
Mars's mysterious elongated crater
Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains...
Upper Layer of Atmosphere Shrinking, Study Says
Low Sun Activity Causing Thermosphere to Shrink, But Researchers Say That Could Be Good News for Satellites
Katrina: Tracking the Course of a Killer Storm from Space
In a Series of Images, NASA Satellites Tracked the 2005 Storm that Devastated New Orleans
Scientists unveil structure of adenovirus, the largest high-resolution complex ever found
After more than a decade of research, scientists have pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus -- the largest complex ever determined at atomic resolution.
Oddly shaped Mars crater a cosmic puzzle
PARIS, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- An elongated crater on Mars is a mystery, say European scientists scrambling for an explanation of its odd shape. ...
Researchers listen to 'ringing' star
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A distant star U.S. scientists say is "ringing like a bell" could provide clues to other stars that might have planets that might...
High-res camera snaps water ice on Mars
TUCSON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A NASA spacecraft with a high-resolution camera has photographed a young Mars crater and found frozen water in it, scientists say. ...
Another Sheep Back In The Yard - The Late NuTeV Anomaly
The Standard Model of particle physics has been under attack since its original formulation, in 1967, and yet it has so far resisted every assault; in so doing it has...
Sizes for potentially dangerous asteroids
Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets whose orbits sometimes take them close to the earth's orbit. An NEO could therefore someday collide with the earth -- and there...
Distant star's sound waves reveal cycle similar to the sun's
In a bid to unlock longstanding mysteries of the sun, including the impacts on Earth of its 11-year cycle, an international team of scientists has successfully probed a distant star....
New Cosmic Photo Reveals Eye-Catching Rosette Nebula
A NASA telescope has snapped a stunning photo of a huge, flower-shaped cloud of dust and gas about 5,000 light-years from Earth.
'Mars' greenhouse remote-controlled
Astronauts visiting Mars in the future may be able to look forward to a fresh salad when they arrive, thanks to Canadian research in the High Arctic.
NASA Jump-Starts Space Technology Program
NASA has jump-started advanced space technology efforts to fund eight high-priority research projects.
'Avatar' Director James Cameron Stars in NASA Videos
NASA is featuring "Avatar" director James Cameron in a series of new public service announcements.
Timelapse Video Illustrates 500,000 Asteroid Discoveries
500,000 Asteroids Discovered From 1980 to 2010 In this amazing video of the solar system, the asteroids that were discovered from 1980 to 2010 appear in the sequence as...
Ten years flying in formation: The legendary Cluster quartet
Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of formation flying for the four satellites of ESA's Cluster quartet, one of the most successful scientific missions ever launched. On...
Metop-A completes 20,000th orbit
Metop-A, Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology, will complete its 20,000th orbit of the Earth on 27 August. It will deliver its data to the EUMETSAT Polar System...
New view of tectonic plates
PASADENA, Calif. -- Computational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed new computer algorithms that...
Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily profiles of the changing structure of the planet's atmosphere.
PHOTOS: Summer on 'Mars'
Each summer, researchers test space technology in Canada's High Arctic as part of NASA's Haughton-Mars Project on Devon Island, Nunavut. Here are some of the images
How James Lovelock introduced Gaia to an unsuspecting world | Science Book Club
We have learned so much about our home planet in the three decades since James Lovelock wrote Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford, 1979). Has the book stood the...
Rolls-Royce to 'expedite' engine delivery to Boeing
Rolls-Royce said Friday it was working closely with Boeing to rush through delivery of engines to the US aerospace giant which has been forced to announce a further delay to...
Albedo cloud seeding will not dry continents
Cloud seeding to reflect sunlight can make the earth wetter rather than drier.
NASA Aims to Ease Doubts Over Private Space Taxis
NASA reassured commercial space firms that it will be a supportive customer for privately built space taxis.
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer arrives at launch site
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most complex space scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, escorted by astronauts who will...
Tyrannosaurs sent back to the Northern Hemisphere
A team of palaeontologists from The University of Queensland has challenged the recent identification of a possible tyrannosaur fossil from Australia.
Galactic Collisions Spread the Wealth
When galaxies smash into each other, regions rich and poor in metals mix it up