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Big, Bright, Green Comet Easy to See This Week
One of the universe's biggest and brightest known comets is streaking across early morning skies this week, experts say. ...
New look into Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) is a classic, a real must that now gets into Calar Alto Documentary Photo Gallery with an impressive new photo obtained with the Zeiss 1.23 m...
New Cyberattacks In South Korea
D.O.S. Attacks Target Government Websites for 2nd Time in Week, With No Major Damage; Gov't Traces Source to China
Zooming in on an infant solar system
A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. The discoveries, published...
Astronomers Capture First Images of an Exoplanet Orbiting Its Star
Exoplanet In Orbit This composite image shows a huge planet orbiting a nearby star, Beta Pictoris. The pale dots inside the dark disc are pictures of the planet in 2003 and 2009....
Japan's space sail generating energy
Japan's space sail has been successfully deployed and has started generating power, the country's main space agency says.
ESA's Herschel-Planck missions get award
PARIS, June 11 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's Herschel and Planck science missions have received the French Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics' Grand Prix 2010 award.
A high-resolution Asian monsoon record from 16.2 to 7.3 thousand years before present
Research at the School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University (SWU) in Chongqing, China-Research, has demonstrated that the record of the Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) covers the last...
South Korea rocket crashes in second straight failure
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean space rocket carrying a scientific satellite exploded two minutes into its flight in the second failure in two tries to put a payload in...
NASA Chief Says Funding Woes Force Moon Program Slowdown
NASA's Constellation program is facing a potential $1 billion funding shortfall in the remaining four months of the current budget year, a situation that likely will force contractors to scale...
Test detects contaminated water in rice fields
A cheap and simple test will help avoid environmental contamination by a herbicide present in the floodwaters of Uruguayan rice fields
The Best Time to See Venus Is Now
Now is the best time to observe the brightest planet in the sky, Venus. Look for this brightest planet in the night sky just after sunset - and up until...
Video: Fujitsu Shows Off World's Largest 3DTV
Fujitsu shows off the world's largest 3DTV, Logitech releases HD webcams, an AT&T data breach hits iPad 3G owners, and RockBand 3 gets keyboards.
Bringing Comparison Shopping to the Doctor’s Office
A new search engine can help patients search for doctors and find out how much they will charge, depending on their insurance coverage.
World Cup Mania Reaches Astronauts in Space
World Cup soccer mania extends even to space, said astronauts on the International Space Station.
The Chance for Life on Io
Jupiter`s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Could it also be a habitat for life?
Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- In exploration, sometimes you find more than what you're looking for, including things that shouldn`t be there. As the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited over the night side of...
Youngest Planet Confirmed; Photos Show It Grew Up Fast
New telescope pictures prove the youngest known planet outside our solar system does in fact exist—and that planets can grow up fast—a new study says. ...
Planck Mission: Space Probe Peers Into Dark Cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine watching the birth of the universe -- the Big Bang -- from the outside. What would you have seen?
New model is proposed to explain absence of organic compounds on surface of Mars
The ongoing search for evidence of past or present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains...
NASA 'Summer of Innovation' program starts
PASADENA, Calif., June 10 (UPI) -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden officially started the agency's "Summer of Innovation" program Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
Exoplanet caught on the move (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. It is located...
Physicist Calls UFO Cover-up a 'Cosmic Watergate'
Stanton Friedman is convinced that aliens are visiting us.
Elves and Sprites Caught Dancing Near the Edge of Space
Spectacular light shows shooting out of the tops of storms clouds have been reported by pilots for decades. Now the strange colored lights have been captured on high-speed video.
Arizona drops charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs
He still faces more serious charges in Texas. ...
Man Accused of Stealing Sally Ride's Flight Suit
A Houston man is accused of stealing a light blue flight suit worn by former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
Cosmic Log: One giant leap for oiled birds
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Rehabilitated birds from Louisiana's oil-spill zone are being airlifted to a new home that's famous for flight: NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...
CH Cyg: A Close-up View of Codependent Stellar Living
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image shows the symbiotic system known as CH Cyg, located only about 800 light years from Earth. The large image shows an optical view of CH Cyg,...