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Image: ISS Transits the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thilo Kranz, a staff member at DLR, the German Space Agency, took this image of the transit of the International Space Station ISS with Space Shuttle Atlantis during...
Research Flights Take NASA Scientists Over Gulf Oil Spill
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, made research flights over the Gulf of Mexico this week to help investigate potential uses of satellites for...
Video: How to Catch a Terrorist
CBS News' Bob Orr reports on the steps taken by U.S. law enforcement officials in arresting Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad after he boarded an Emirates flight bound for...
Scientists celebrate 25th anniversary of ozone hole discovery
An international group of scientists will gather at the University of Cambridge on Friday 7 May 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the hole in the...
Attempt to Shut Down Zombie Satellite Galaxy 15 Fails
An attempt to shut down the "zombiesat" Galaxy 15 before it can begin to interfere with other nearby satellites has failed.
Gazprom-Naftogaz merger positive?
MOSCOW, May 5 (UPI) -- A merger between Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukrainian utility Naftogaz could keep Ukrainian transit networks active, Russian energy leaders said.
Japan Could Put a Human(oid) on the Moon by 2015
A group of engineers in Japan have begun planning a two-legged humanoid robot designed to walk to the surface of the moon, according to Japanese press reports.
Deep Space as Seen by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
New images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy.
Image: Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the...
Wide-eyed Proba-V will track global vegetation daily
(PhysOrg.com) -- The small but powerful camera of ESA's Proba-V mission can fit on a single laboratory table for testing. But when it reaches orbit, this compact sensor will deliver...
How Capt. Kirk Changed the World
NASA is making a to-do list for the space station's new humanoid robot. Nicknamed R2, the mechanical crew member's chores could range from the most delicate science experiments to...
Seascape strawberries: A good space berry?
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 4 (UPI) -- Purdue University horticulturists say they've found a strawberry variety that might be a good candidate to feed astronauts on long space missions.
Study: Light bulbs actually spur bright ideas
The concept that reaching an insight is much like shining a light into a dark place goes back to at least Plato.
Space Photos This Week: Black Holes, Sahara Storm, More
Midsize black holes, a dust "wall" pushing across Africa, and recently made streaks on Mars feature among the week's best space pictures.
NASA to Go Boldly to the Bottom of the Sea
NASA recently announced a new 14-day undersea, mock space mission off Florida's east coast to test exploration concepts and learn more about working in an unforgiving, treacherous environment. The mission...
Italy gets new solar plant
BARI, Italy, May 4 (UPI) -- A solar park in the Italian province of Lecce will generate power for more than 3,000 homes when fully operational, solar company SunEdison...
STAR TRAK for May
(PhysOrg.com) -- After sunset each evening in May, look to the west-northwest to see the planet Venus as a beautiful "evening star," the brightest point of light in the sky.
Comet Eruptions Predicted by New Computer Model
Scientists have developed a computer model that can locate active regions in comets using only information available from Earth. The new method could help calculate a safe flight route for...
Rocks record early magnetic field
Scientists push back the date for the earliest known presence of a magnetic field on Earth by about 250 million years.
Countdown begins to 520 day 'Mars mission'
A group of volunteers have started final training in Russia in preparation for being locked up in a capsule for 520 days to simulate the psychological effects of the voyage...
NASA Chief of Staff Stepping Down
George Whitesides, chief of staff to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, is stepping down.
Astronomers spot mega-star cradle
Using an Australian radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself -- a...
Upgraded tsunami buoy system planned
SYDNEY, May 3 (UPI) -- Australian scientists are using a math model to find the 10 optimal sites where Indian Ocean tsunami detection buoys and sea-level monitors should be...
Man charged after Calif. police booby trap raids
HEMET, Calif. (AP) -- A suspected white supremacist has pleaded not guilty to possessing the same kind of homemade gun used in a booby trap targeting...
Guenter Wendt, 85, 'Pad Leader' for NASA's Moon Missions, Dies
Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA's manned space program and the last man the Apollo astronauts saw before launching to the moon, died at his home in Merritt...
AKARI produces two new infrared all-sky catalogues
Two new infrared catalogues, containing more than 1.3 million celestial sources, have been made public. The AKARI All-Sky Catalogues, based on the first all-sky infrared survey in more than a...
When Will the 'Doughnut Hole' Close?
The so-called doughnut hole will close by degrees; the coverage gap won't be fully erased until 2020.
Feature: Cosmic time machine
Scientists are analysing rocks from outer space to peer back in time to a much more volatile period in the story of the early solar system.