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Video Games Help Astronauts Prepare for Deep-Space Missions
Astronauts will train for space mission by playing video games.
Like the writer, Agatha was a brief mystery
Tropical Storm Agatha made landfall this weekend in El Salvador and Guatemala, and crossed into the western Caribbean. Like Agatha Christie, the famous mystery writer, Agatha was somewhat of a...
Touchdown! Soyuz Spaceship's Landing Jets Fire in Photo
A spectacular shot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan shows the bright blaze of the spacecraft's thrusters firing just before it touched down Wednesday morning...
Are Backward Black Holes the Key to Galaxies' Biggest Blasts?
Some black holes can warp space enough to suppress star formation
Pictures: NASA Guts 747, Adds 17-Ton Telescope
A candy-colored view of Jupiter is among the first pictures taken by SOFIA, a 17-ton telescope mounted into a modified Boeing 747. ...
NASA spacecraft burns for home, then comet
NASA's Deep Impact/Epoxi spacecraft has successfully performed a trajectory correction maneuver to refine its orbit prior to an upcoming Earth flyby June 27. The maneuver, along with the Earth flyby,...
About New York: James Webb Telescope Takes Baby Pictures of Universe
A giant telescope that will be sent a million miles from Earth will look deep into space and collect light and images that have been traveling since nearly the beginning...
Video: Cloud-Based Apple TV
Motorola bets big on Android and Verizon, Android users can now stream Sirius XM satellite radio, and leaked details about a new $99 Apple TV are very intriguing.
U.S. announces criminal inquiry in oil spill disaster
Justice Department lawyers are investigating the origins of the rig explosion and whether BP and Transocean Ltd. violated federal statutes. A new cleanup plan proceeds. Striking an increasingly aggressive posture as the Deepwater...
Quirky particles could explain universe's missing mass
New model of dark matter holds no place for WIMPs
Details in the structure of a distant quasar
After first tests of the individual antennas, the observations now bring together eight stations of the 'LOw Frequency ARray' (LOFAR), Five stations in the Netherlands were connected with three stations...
A cosmic zoo in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Astronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way, in their quest to understand the Universe. In this...
Missing piece found in subatomic puzzle
Research scientists say they have identified the missing piece of a major puzzle involving the makeup of the universe by observing a neutrino particle change from one type to another. ...
520 days on a simulated flight to Mars
On June 3, 2010, six 'astronauts' will commence a virtual trip to Mars. Sealed into a cramped container at the Moscow Institute of Biomedical Problems for 520 days, they will...
Thousands of Galaxies Found Packed in Busy Cosmic Clusters
Tiny dots in new Herschel image are distant, brightest galaxies, shows how clumped together in early universe.
Instant insight: Cosmic dust as chemical factories
Daren Caruana and Katherine Holt discuss how electrochemistry could be the missing link to understanding chemistry in space
Study investigates craters formed by raindrops (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hiroaki Katsuragi and a team from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, have been investigating what happens when water drops of various sizes are allowed to fall from a...
ESA Bulletin 142 (May 2010)
A stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope is on the cover of this issue of the Bulletin, as this famous observatory celebrates 20 years in space. Read the Bulletin...
Mars was Wet, but was it Warm?
Mars is frozen today, but when it was young there may have been liquid water on its surface. What does the latest evidence indicate about the ancient martian climate? Understanding...
Observatory: New Evidence on Mars Formations
There are two striking features on the Northern ice caps of Mars that have intrigued scientists.
Observatory: On Savanna, Termites Are a Force for Good
Researchers studying termites in Kenya’s central highlands found that the abundance of flora and fauna is markedly higher atop termite mounds.
NASA's Orion Lifeboat Makes Waves for Boeing's Commercial Spaceship Plan
Boeing is willing to build a crew capsule for NASA on a commercial fixed-price basis but is troubled by the agency's plans to continue funding development of the Orion Crew...
Asteroid probe 'on home strait'
A Japanese space probe designed to return samples from an asteroid completes an important step on its journey home.
Computer, Adapt Thyself
Computing networks of tomorrow will be evolving meshes of different processors, various legacy and newer hardware, and numerous software and operating platforms spanning generations - making it costly, bordering on...
No Memorial Day Barbecue for Astronauts in Space
While many Americans enjoy a long holiday weekend this Memorial Day, there will be no barbecues for astronauts on the International Space Station. The astronauts are busy preparing for a...
Jedi Infiltrate SpaceCamp, Destroy NASA
NASA is dead. Jedi killed it. Used to be, growing geeks wanted to go to Space Camp. To fly rockets, to mimic operating a shuttle, to #$^ing be an astronaut. It...
Tanker truck explosion forces closure of 91 Freeway in Corona
A tanker truck burst into flames and exploded Friday on the 91 Freeway in Corona, prompting the CHP to close the freeway in both directions.
NASA Sensor Completes Initial Gulf Oil Spill Flights
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument collected an image over the site of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig disaster on May 17, 2010. Crude oil on...