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Standby rescue space shuttle rolled to launch pad
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Friday moved the shuttle Endeavour out to the launch pad for an emergency mission it hopes never to undertake.
Cosmic Heavyweights In Free-for-all
The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens when some of...
Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season
(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
New Lander Could Probe Dwarf Planet Ceres For Life
A lander mission to the dwarf planet Ceres could hunt for life.
Distant Starbursts Light Up the Sky--We Just Can't See Them
The first results from a balloon-hoisted telescope that floated more than 20 miles (30 kilometers) above Antarctica have shed light on a major source of the celestial background, the electromagnetic...
Dannie Heineman Prizes for 2009
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announces the winners of the 2009 Dannie Heineman Prizes for Mathematical Physics and for Astrophysics.
Harnessing Cloud Computing for Data-intensive Research on Oceans, Galaxies
The University of Washington will apply cloud computing to analyze climate simulation results and astronomical images. The new grants are part of a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation,...
Eyes Seek New Targets During Visual Search
The results indicate that inhibition of return occurs during visual search tasks, but not during other visual tasks.That is, volunteers in the search group were slower to shift their eyes...
The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up
(PhysOrg.com) -- Together with the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray telescopes. Astronomers can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. The astrophysical study of...
Cosmology: The test of inflation
As the launch of the Planck spacecraft approaches, Eric Hand investigates what the mission could mean for the predominant theory of the moments after the Big Bang.
Collision debris increases risk to Earth-observing satellites
European study finds wreckage from recent collision in the spaceways.
NASA ponders 'carbon copy' of crashed mission
Replica spacecraft for monitoring carbon dioxide could fly in a couple of years if money can be found.
Valley Fever Blowing on a Hotter Wind
It's high noon, and the 112–degree summer heat – up from a decade ago – stalks Arizona's Sonoran Desert. By late afternoon, dark clouds threaten, and monsoon winds beat the...
Interview: Elemental evolution
Ariel Anbar talks to May Copsey about fossils, Star Trek and life on Mars
TiVo DVR viewers bypassing 10 p.m. slots
New research indicates viewers who use digital video recorders to watch their favorite broadcast TV shows tend to watch shows recorded between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. -- and many...
South Asia News in brief: 2–15 April 2009
Rare dolphins spotted in Irrawaddy, Indian amphibians headed for extinction, NASA heads to Everest to prepare for future missions, and more.
China Launches New Navigation Satellite
China launched a new member of its budding satellite navigation system Tuesday.
Big Test Looms for NASA’s New Rocket
The pieces are starting to assemble for the first test flight of NASA’s new rocket, Ares 1, scheduled to lift off this summer.
Torontonians express interest in space tourism
The Virgin Galactic team is putting the final touches to an aircraft that will take tourists into space. At least two Torontonians are ready to take the flight.
NASA spacecraft show three dimensional anatomy of a solar storm
Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs....
US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon
Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon.
Spacewatch
The launch of the European Space Agency's Herschel and Planck spac
Duke physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup
A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with...
First 3-D Pictures of Solar Explosions Captured
Twin satellites have captured the first 3-D pictures of solar storms. The new tech should allow for earlier warnings about potential disruptions to GPS, power grids, and satellites.
KISSing Galactic Cousins Break the Mold
Survey detects large galaxies that may be too young to have grown so big
SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Soyuz Lands, Titan's Gas, More
See how life might start on another planet, a test drive of a large new moon robot, a fresh look at a Saturn moon's atmosphere, and more in this week's...
Nasa Sun probes watch over Earth
Scientists say they have demonstrated the principle of a very effective early warning system that would give notice of huge eruptions on the Sun.
NASA online Earth Day poll is under way
WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- NASA says it's inviting the public to vote for the most important contribution the U.S. space agency has made toward improving life on...