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Putin Visits Site Of Russia's New Launch Center

13 years ago from CBSNews - Science

Putin Says All Manned Space Missions Will Use Russia's New Launch Center Starting 2018

On Our Radar: Largest Solar Plant Ever

13 years ago from NY Times Science

Final approval nears for the construction of the largest solar power plant in the world: the 1,000 megawatt solar thermal plant would be built on 7,000 acres in southeastern California.

Boeing Moves Forward With Commercial Space Capsule

13 years ago from Space.com

Aerospace juggernaut Boeing is taking cues from the past and using previous experience in developing their new capsule-based spaceship to fly people to and from the International Space Station and...

Image: A strange ring galaxy

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object.

Mars As Big as Full Moon Tonight? All a Hoax

13 years ago from Live Science

The red planet will be huge and bright. Yeah, right.

Doctors 'shocked' at 56-pound tumour

13 years ago from CBC: Health

Doctors in Argentina were shocked when they looked into a woman's uterus searching for an orange-size tumour but instead found a 56-pound one instead.

NASA's SOFIA will likely help solve mysteries about our galaxy

13 years ago from Science Daily

How were millions of young stars able to form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in the presence of an enormous black hole with a mass 4 million...

Antimatter Detector To Catch Last Space Shuttle

13 years ago from CBSNews - Science

US Air Force Takes Charge Of $2 Billion Antimatter Detector En Route For Last Shuttle To Space

WISE space telescope captures the Unicorn's Rose

13 years ago from Science Daily

Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) shows the Rosette nebula located within the constellation...

Supermassive blackholes spawned by galactic merger

13 years ago from Physics World

Model explains how these galactic monsters formed in the early universe

When galaxies collide: How the first super-massive black holes were born

13 years ago from

Astronomers believe they have discovered the origin of our universe's first super-massive black holes, which formed some 13 billion years ago...

Personal cushion of air

13 years ago from MIT Research

Plans for Orion — the capsule that resembles the Apollo program’s spacecraft and was supposed to send humans to the moon by 2020 as part of NASA’s Constellation program — were changed...

What lies beyond ‘What the Bleep’?

13 years ago from MSNBC: Science

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: JZ Knight — one of the prominent players behind the science-meets-self-actualization movie "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" — discusses what lies ahead for her...

Why are sunspots a source of radio emissions? NJIT researcher explains more

13 years ago from Science Blog

Why sunspots are a strong source of radio emissions and what information those emissions carry will be the focus of an invited talk by NJIT Research Professor Jeongwoo Lee tomorrow...

Space Photos This Week: Sun Spikes, Odd Magnetar, More

13 years ago from National Geographic

The sun gets prickly, planets are ground to dust, Saturn shines darkly, and more in our selection of the week's best space pictures. ...

New Computer Model Might Turn Theory Of Galaxy Formation On Its Head

13 years ago from

Our universe is thought to be around 14 billion years old and astronomers recently determined that big galaxies formed much earlier in the universe's history than previously thought, within the...

You Can Catch a Crescent Venus In Telescopes

13 years ago from Space.com

Venus is shining bright this week and appears as a crescent as it makes way for a show from Jupiter.

The Mutating Mars Hoax

13 years ago from Physorg

It spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die. For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to...

Comic Book to Share True Tale of Strange Space Object

13 years ago from Newswise - Scinews

A cast of real-life astronomers and a Dutch schoolteacher who collaborated in the discovery and analysis of an unusual object in space are featured in a comic book to be...

Sunlight spawns many binary and 'divorced' binary asteroids

13 years ago from Physorg

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is often depicted as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way toward the sun.

Space-based detector could find anti-universe

13 years ago from Reuters:Science

GENEVA (Reuters) - A huge particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year could find evidence for the anti-universe often evoked in science fiction, physicists said...

NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Ninos are Growing Stronger

A new type of El Niño is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new NASA/NOAA study that has potential implications for long-term weather forecasting.

Image: Hydrogen sulfide and dust plumes on Namibia's coast

13 years ago from Physorg

Cloudless skies allowed a clear view of dust and hydrogen sulfide plumes along the coast of Namibia in early August 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA`s Terra...

Russian gas tanker forges Arctic passage to China

13 years ago from Physorg

A Russian gas tanker is this month making a historic voyage across the famed Northeast passage as receding ice opens up an elusive trade route from Asia to the West...

Measuring the universe

13 years ago from Physorg

A unique antenna which could help unveil a new window on the universe by observing thousands of gravitational waves should be one of NASA's next space missions according to a...

ESA’s pioneering Cluster mission is celebrating its 10th anniversary – Invitation to a media briefing on 1 September 2010

13 years ago from European Space Agency

ESA PR 2010-19 Media representatives are cordially invited to a briefing on the occasion of ten years of scientific discoveries by ESA’s Cluster mission. Over the past decade, Cluster’s four...

Project seeks a better image inside Earth

13 years ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are installing underground seismographs across the US to glean better information about the Earth's interior, and Michigan Tech is deeply into it.

Pulsar survey could help find gravitational waves

13 years ago from Physorg

With a recently announced $6.5 million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF), an international consortium of researchers and institutions hopes to find and use the galaxy's...