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Gazprom sweet-talking Ukraine's Naftogaz
MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Merging a national energy company in Ukraine with Russian gas monopoly Gazprom would ensure a reliable source of gas for Ukrainian households, an official...
For Hurricane Katrina Victims, A Solar Restart
Five years after Katrina, projects to rebuild New Orleans showcase solar energy, efficiency. Hurricane Katrina -...
Jack Horkheimer dies at 72; amateur astronomer hosted 'Star Gazer'
Miami's planetarium's longtime director was an enthusiastic showman known for creative programming. He created the five-minute weekly TV program and offered it free to PBS stations across the country.Jack Horkheimer,...
See Jupiter and the Moon: 6 Degrees of Separation
This week, Jupiter and the nearly full moon make great skywatching targets.
Alien Solar System Looks Strikingly Like Ours
Astronomers have discovered at least five alien planets – and maybe two more – in what is the largest catch of alien worlds yet seen.
Oldest Material in Solar System Found
A meteorite adds two million years to the solar system's age—and suggests an exploding star helped create the system we know today, a new study says. ...
Computer glitch silences satellite
PARIS, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- A European Space Agency observation satellite has suffered a computer glitch -- its second -- and can't transmit its data to the ground, agency...
Self-cleaning solar panels described
BOSTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Technology developed for missions to Mars could improve the performance of solar energy systems on Earth, U.S. researchers say. ...
Wake up astronauts with your music: NASA
Songwriters and music lovers may have the chance to get their songs played in space during NASA's last two space shuttle missions.
Titanic explorers delay mission by a day
A team of scientists that will explore the wreckage of the Titanic has delayed its departure from St. John's by a day.
Psychics Claim Evidence of Life on Mars
A team of psychics claims to have found evidence not only of life on Mars, but a large industrial dome and a plume of waste coming from it.
What happened to the space rocks?
Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers.
Science Weekly podcast: Big questions about our universe; zombie ants; plus, a session with a sex scientist
Astronomy writer Stuart Clark tackles some of the biggest questions about our universe, including gravity and dark energy. His book The Big Questions: The Universe is out now. We send Heather Christie...
Walking Icelandic volcano's lava fields
Hikers are once again walking on the slopes of the crater, where they are discovering some dramatic changes to the landscape.
Space pollution: litter bugs face the final frontier
A clean-up of the 18,000 items of man-made debris orbiting Earth might be possible with spacecraft equipped with netsThink of the Earth from space and your mind probably conjures up those serene pictures...
Voyager: The Mission to the Cosmos and Beyond
In Aug. 1977, Earth Sent a Couple of Probes to Explore Outer Space - With Stunning Results
Cosmic Log: ‘Piranha 3D’ unfair to the fish
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Toothy, terrorizing fish are the stars of this summer's scariest movie, but scientists say piranhas aren't the man-eaters they're made out to be. ...
Planetary Society Urges Congress to Reconsider Space Exploration Plan
The Planetary Society, a non-profit organization involved in space advocacy, is deeply concerned about the future of U.S. space exploration and is urging Congress to reconsider NASA's current plans.
Space tourist launch plane damaged
MOJAVE, Calif., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The mother ship jet designed to launch suborbital space tourist flights was damaged upon landing in California when a landing gear collapsed, officials...
Study: Astronauts as weak as 80-year-olds in space
By MARCIA DUNN 2010-08-20T21:50:39Z CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Astronauts can become as weak as 80-year-olds after six months...
Ray Kurzweil Video Presentation On The Brain And The Power Of Hierarchical Thinking (full Video)
There has been much debate surrounding Ray Kurzweil and his talk at the Singularity Summit on August 14th 2010, where he discussed reverse engineering the brain, among other things. He...
History-Making Mars Mission Launched 35 Years Ago
NASA's Viking 1 mission, launched on Aug. 20, 1975, put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars and delivered the first successful lander to the Martian surface.
ScienceShot: Martian Volcano Mud May Have Hosted Life
Outflows may have harbored water and other organic ingredients
Africa considers a continent-wide space agency
It looks like a tea bag, but it is packed with nano-fibres and active carbon to remove contaminants from water.
Researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields, which enhances our understanding of how stars, including the Sun, work.
Snapshot of Activity Inside NASA's First GRIP Flight
Scientists, graduate students and NASA flight crew came together and took part in the first flight of the DC-8 aircraft in NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment on...
New Herbig-Haro Jets in Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team using the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) has obtained some of the deepest and highest resolution images ever taken of the large star-forming molecular cloud...
New Space Observatory Could Join Hunt for Alien Planets
A new space mission from the United Kingdom could join the hunt for life-bearing planets beyond our solar system if it is selected for full development by the European Space...