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Thousands Watch Comet Lulin Trip Online
When Comet Lulin crossed the skies last week, more than 42,000 people around the globe watched the trip online. The comet's journey was documented by an observatory in southwest Georgia,...
NASA Satellite Crashes Back to Earth
The rocket carrying a new NASA craft for monitoring carbon dioxide suffered a technical glitch shortly after launch that caused the satellite to fall into the ocean.
Jupiter pips Saturn for new space mission
US and Europe agree joint Jovian probes for launch in 2020
Fermilab, European accelerator race for glory
CHICAGO (AP) -- So, does the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron accelerator have a shot against the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland?...
NASA spacecraft to seek out Earth-like planets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. spacecraft toting the biggest camera ever sent into space will be launched next month to scour our region of the Milky Way galaxy for warm,...
Cast Your Vote to Name Space Station's New Room
NASA wants your help in naming a new space station module.
Two NASA Moon Probes Head to Launch Site
Lunar orbiters head to NASA's Florida space center for launch preparation.
New recipe for dwarf galaxies: Start with leftover gas
There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe. It has, for the first time, identified dwarf galaxies forming...
Aging Mars Rover Gets a Power Boost
The Mars rover Spirit more power under its hood thanks to some Martian winds.
NASA Spacecraft Falling For Mars
The gravity of Mars will change the Dawn spacecraft's path about the sun, helping send the probe toward its 2011 encounter with the asteroid Vesta.
100 m virtual telescope captures unique detailed colour image
'This is one of the first images made using near-infrared interferometry,' says lead author Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin. Interferometry is a technique that combines the light from several telescopes, resulting in...
Liquid Water Recently Seen on Mars?
Mars pictures taken last summer show strange globs on the leg of the Phoenix Mars lander that seem to behave like liquid water, a new paper reports.
Dormant Supercollider Generates Star Power
The troubled Large Hadron Collider, switched on last fall and then off again when its magnets broke, has a bright future. Tom Hanks, star of Big and The Polar Express,...
Diamond-like Films Help In Study Of Solar Winds
Diamond-like carbon films are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts with the interstellar...
How to go from analog to digital TV
(AP) -- Here's a checklist to make sure you'll have TV reception after local stations cut their analog broadcasts.
Kaputnik chaos could kill Hubble
Worst-ever orbital collision leads to calls for tighter regulation.
Carina Nebula: Astronomers Capture Intricate Structures Of One Of Brightest Nebulae In Sky
Astronomers have captured amazing detail in the intricate structures of one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), where strong winds and powerful...
Cosmological simulations key to understanding the universe
Tiziana Di Matteo, associate professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University is harnessing the power of supercomputing to recreate how galaxies are born, how they develop over time and, ultimately,...
UV Teeth Bleaching Not a Bright Idea
Ultraviolet light can damage your gums, lips and eyes during a light-assisted teeth bleaching.
Robot Does Breast Biopsy
Guided solely by 3-D ultrasound images, an autonomous robot places its biopsy needle precisely on a metallic target within a Nerf ball.
Japan unveils new space rocket, hoping to boost prestige
Nestled in a cavernous but air-tight hangar, scientists are putting the finishing touches to Japan's H-2B rocket, hoping it will boost the country's prestige when it blasts off later this...
Perseverence Is Paying Off for a Test of Relativity in Space
The Gravity Probe B spacecraft has sought to prove two tenets of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and the data is promising.
TV stations get ready to cut analog signal
(AP) -- In theater superstition, a bad dress rehearsal is supposed to foretell a good opening night.
NASA predicted Rift Valley fever outbreak
GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it used an early warning system, more than a decade in development to predict a 2006-07 outbreak...
Farmers harness manure's gases to generate power
Where others see simply manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe...
Physicist Uses Radio Signals to Search Downtown Las Vegas for Signs of Ancient Pit Houses
Using radio signals instead of shovels, a physics faculty member from Ithaca College, along with local archeologists, has found evidence of additional 1,300-year-old pit houses five miles from the Las...
Clemson astronomers to study mysterious antimatter in the Milky Way
NASA has awarded Clemson astronomers $244,000 to use data from several space-based gamma-ray telescopes to study a mysterious emission coming from the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy.
Mars Craters Tell Story of Water and Ice
New theory proposes ice fields responsible for sulfate deposits of Meridiani Planum.