Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better

Astronomers discovered an efficient method for standardizing the intrinsic brightness and thus the distance to the cosmic milestones known as Type Ia supernovae. The discovery underlines the crucial importance of...

Spirit stuck on Mars, Opportunity rolls on

ITHACA, N.Y., May 22 (UPI) -- Six years after landing on Mars, the rover Spirit is bogged down in Martian soil, researchers at Cornell University said, but Opportunity...

Windy, wet and wild: Victoria Crater unveils more of Mars' geologic past

After thoroughly investigating Victoria Crater on Mars for two years, the instruments aboard the Rover Opportunity reveal more evidence of our neighbouring red planet's windy, wet and wild past. The...

NASA Conducts First Ares I Rocket Cluster Parachute Test

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unfurling in majestic patriotic colors, a successful cluster test of the Ares I rocket's three, 1-ton main parachutes was conducted May 20 by NASA and industry engineers at...

7 in NY charged in Craigslist prostitution ring

(AP) -- Seven people have been indicted on charges of running a 24-hour prostitution ring on Craigslist, New York's attorney general announced Wednesday, the day after Craigslist's CEO filed...

Biological particles found in high clouds

SAN DIEGO, May 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've made the first direct observations of biological particles in high-altitude clouds.

Mars Hoax Circulates: 'Big as the Moon!'

You can find Mars in the early morning sky right now. But it won't be that big.

NASA chief nearly named?

President Obama to meet with former astronaut Charles Bolden.

Looking for subatomic insights in Minnesota

After years of planning, officials broke ground this month for a new high-energy physics experiment that will probe the behavior of one of the basic particles that make up the universe: the...

Spitzer Space Telescope is out of coolant

PASADENA, Calif., May 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Spitzer Space Telescope is out of the coolant used to chill its infrared instruments and has...

Bounty of Space Telescopes Fuels Golden Age of Astronomy

New additions to the roster of space telescopes mark the peak of a 'golden age' in space astronomy.

Neutron Star Crust Is Stronger than Steel

The crusts of neutron stars may be 10 billion times stronger than steel, new research shows.

Astronaut Looks at Earth: 'It's Too Beautiful'

Astronaut Mike Massimino tries to describe the indescribable thrill of viewing Earth from space.

European-built Node 3 says farewell to Europe

The official departure ceremony of Node 3 took place at the site of ESA’s Node 3 prime contractor Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, on 16 May. The final European-built...

Virgin Galactic: 'Getting into space has a very low environmental impact'

The science of Angels and Demons

On this week's podcast, we find out whether you can blow things up with anti-matter. Mark Lancaster, a particle physicist at University College London, comes in to debunk the plot...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Unfolds by Animation

Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out...

Do satellite galaxies point to modified gravity?

Dwarfs don't seem to contain dark matter

Roscosmos says satellite launched Saturday

MOSCOW, May 16 (UPI) -- A Proton-M rocket carrying a ProtoStar-2 telecommunication satellite was launched from the Baikonur space center Saturday, the Russian space agency said.

World's observatories watching 'cool' star

The Whole Earth Telescope (WET), a worldwide network of observatories coordinated by the University of Delaware, is synchronising its lenses to provide round-the-clock coverage of a cooling star. As the...

Intel ISEF winners announced

Projects on smarter roundworms, glowing bacteria as pollutant detectors and the shared history of bees and nematodes take three top spots

See Moon Shadows on Jupiter

You can watch the shadows of Jupiter's four largest Moons pass across the face of the planet.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee--on the Moon!

Have you ever wondered how you'd make your morning coffee if you were living on another planet? NASA engineers have power systems on the drawing board that could run...

Wow! Venus Dazzles in Morning Sky

Truly dazzling, a world so close to ours that it outshines every star in the sky, save the sun.

Venus and Mars: Double Planet Treat in the Dawn Sky

Brilliant Venus is close to reddish Mars.

QUIET Team to Deploy New Gravity-Wave Probe in June

The international QUIET collaboration is searching for remnants of the radiation emitted at the earliest moments of the universe, when gravity waves rippled through the very fabric of space-time itself.

Snoopy Celebrates 40th Anniversary of His Moon Flight

Snoopy celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 10 moon mission and NASA's ongoing safety program.

Watch on Euronews: Uncovering Venus’ secrets

For a long time, many imagined conditions on Venus to be similar to those on Earth. But space probes then discovered a burning hell instead of a tropical paradise. The...