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Hiding out behind the Milky Way
A leggy cosmic creature comes out of hiding in a new infrared view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spiral beauty, called IC 342 and sometimes the...
Geese tagged over wind farm fears
Barnacle geese are tagged with satellite trackers to assess the impact of planned wind farms on their migration to the Arctic.
TechNewsDaily: NASA Builds Undersea Robot Powered by Ocean Heat
NASA and the U.S. Navy have successfully built and underwater robot powered ocean temperature shifts.
Space Photos This Week: Soul Nebula, Aurora, More
Stars hollow out a dusty "soul," the space station meets an aurora, a two-faced nebula shines, and more in the week's best space pictures.
Double Play: Spacecraft to Image Two Saturn Moons This Week
A lucky cosmic alignment will allow NASA's Cassini spacecraft to swing up close to two of Saturn's moons back-to-back this week.
Fixing the Hubble, and Seeing What It Sees, in Imax and 3-D
A mission to save a fabled telescope comes to the big screen.
Active Robotic Skylight Pumps Natural Light Into Darkened Interior Spaces
In an ideal world, we'd use natural light to brighten every darkened nook that needs illumination. But in reality, skylights and windows can let only so much light into a structure, and...
The Science of Galaxy Zoo
Dr. Chris Lintott, principal investigator of the Galaxy Zoo project, will offer an engaging presentation of the weird and wonderful objects identified by Galaxy Zoo users and a few tales...
N.S. biomass energy project planned
Nova Scotia Power and NewPage Port Hawkesbury are planning a $200-million biomass project that could produce three per cent of the province's electricity.
NASA funds initiative to aid students
WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) -- NASA says it is organizing an initiative to assist U.S. graduate and undergraduate students in applying for space agency internships or fellowships.
Near the epicenter, jittery residents tell of quake's power
David Serrano was at home in Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico, watching a Star Trek movie with his 3-year-old daughter when the room began to shake.
Air Force Space Plane to Launch After Long, Twisted Past
A secretive, unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane is finally on the verge of launching on an unprecedented test flight 10 years after its conception by NASA.
Debut Launch of New Commercial Rocket Slips to May
SpaceX is now targeting a May 8 launch for its first Falcon 9 rocket after a slip from April 12.
Probe to explore big bang’s burst
How did the universe blossom from an infinitesimally small speck to astronomical proportions in its first trillionth second of existence? While scientists are still debating the answer to that question,...
French Researchers Ask Science Minister to Disavow Climate Skeptic
PARIS—More than 400 French climate scientists want science minister Valérie Pécresse to take a...
Colony of Young Stars Shines in New Spitzer Image
Astronomers have their eyes on a hot group of young stars, watching their every move like the paparazzi.
Venus and Mercury Sparkle Over Rome in New Photo
An Italian astronomer caught the rare sight of Venus and Mercury together over Rome in the night sky in a new photo.
Spacewoman power: 4 women in orbit at same time
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space is about to have a female population explosion....
Space Telescope Science Institute to Hold "Stellar Populations" Symposium on May 3-6, 2010
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., will hold its next annual Spring Symposium "Stellar Populations in the Cosmological Context" on May 3-6, 2010. Science writers who...
A Fresh Look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot
(PhysOrg.com) -- New, ground-breaking thermal images obtained with powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
Multimedia search without detours
Finding a particular song or video is often no easy matter. Manually assigned metadata may be incorrect, and the unpacking of compressed data can slow up the search. DIVAS, a...
Intense Star Formation in the Early Universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Distant galaxies are not only far away in space. Because it takes time for their light to reach us, they are also very far away in time --...
The embryonic heart: Imaging life as it happens
Imagine being able to image life as it happens by capturing video of the embryonic heart before it begins beating. A professor at the University of Houston, in collaboration with...
Physicists Identify New Kind of Star
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stars don't exactly ease into retirement, and for some stellar objects, the twilight years just got more complicated.
Warnings dropped for ex-cyclone Paul as NASA satellites see it fizzle
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the remnants of ex-tropical storm Paul early today, April 1 and noticed its circulation and form had weakened in the last 24 hours. All weather...
South Korean Rocket Will Launch Again in June
South Korea plans another flight of its small satellite launcher in June, nearly a year after the rocket's first mission was doomed when its payload shroud did not separate.
NASA releases Hubble 20th anniversary book
WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has published a book celebrating the 20th anniversary of the April 1990 launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Moon's trash, another's treasure
A group of space enthusiasts wants to preserve objects that have been left on the moon by astronauts.