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Rocketing Through Water: Space-age Swimsuit Being Tested At NASA
Swimmers around the world are breaking records this year like never before, including at this week's U.S. Olympic trials. Some attribute it to extensive training as athletes prepare to compete...
The scientific flash behind the fireworks
The rockets' red glare, and all those bombs bursting in air, are the product of pyrotechnic chemistry that’s been refined over the course of centuries.
Hubble Sees Stars And A Stripe In Celestial Fireworks
A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope,...
Procurement of full Galileo system begins
Today, the European Commission - with the support of ESA - is launching the procurement of Galileo, a global navigation system composed of 30 dedicated navigation satellites and a ground...
Fly me to the Moon: Japan firm offers weddings in space
A Japanese firm on Tuesday began accepting reservations for couples who really want to make the big leap -- by blasting into space to exchange their wedding vows.
Astronaut Barbara Morgan to leave NASA
WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- U.S. astronaut Barbara Morgan says she's leaving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to become an educator at Idaho's Boise State University.
Astronaut James Reilly leaves NASA
WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said veteran U.S. astronaut James Reilly has left NASA to accept a position in the private sector.
Study: Mars air once had moisture
BERKELEY, Calif., June 30 (UPI) -- U.S.-led geoscientists say a Martian soil data analysis suggests there was once enough water in that planet's atmosphere for a light drizzle...
NASA Astronaut Readapts to Life on Earth
Returned space station astronaut Garrett Reisman is readapting to life on Earth.
Opportunity Rover Eyes Cliff Face on Mars
Opportunity rover wheels closer to a cliff wall of Victoria Crater.
Undersea Chesapeake Crater Offers Hints to Mars Life
A bloom of microbes detected near a crumbling underwater crater suggests that early Mars may have also hosted life in subsurface areas struck by asteroids.
Russian Proton Rocket Launches Military Satellite
A Russian Proton rocket launched a missile warning satellite for Russia on Thursday.
Rides on Soyuz Spacecraft are Rocky, But Not Risky
The ride home aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft are rocky, but safe.
Dispatches from Mars: Interpreting the News from the Red Planet
New test results and stunning photographs arrive from the Phoenix exploratory craft several times a week. Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, who has written extensively about the prospects for...
New Technology May Help Olympic Sailing: Doppler Lidar More Accurately Shows Which Way the Wind Blows
A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction...
Delta 2 Rockets to Remain Competitive Until 2015
United Launch Alliance has enough Delta 2 rockets for demand through 2015.
Huge Tunguska Explosion Remains Mysterious 100 Years Later
Asteroid, comet, UFO or death ray machine. Those are just some of the ideas.
Herschel acoustic and vibration tests
The Herschel spacecraft is now undergoing a series of mechanical tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC. The tests are carried out to ensure that the spacecraft...
CERN hopes LHC report will dispel doomsday fears
New report reinforces earlier conclusion that there is no cause for concern from strangelets or black holes
Gamma-rays put limit on universe’s background light
Radiation from distant quasar travels relatively unhindered to Earth
Science Weekly podcast: the Mars dichotomy and the science of Homer's Odyssey
Alok Jha, Ian Sample and Nell Boase present a mini version of the show - discussing the Mars dichotomy; the safety of anthrax labs; and the science of Homer's Odyssey
NASA Engaged In Spin
Agency political appointees downplayed climate-change data, inspector general's report says
Micro-magnets promise colour MRI scans
Nickel shapes produce specific radio signals for detailed imaging
Johnjoe McFadden: Survival of the wisest
Johnjoe McFadden: It is 150 years since Darwin expounded the theory that illuminates our world to this day
Editorial: In praise of ... John Fletcher
Editorial: Like a lot of amateur astronomers, John Fletcher got the bug in 1969, through watching the moon landing
100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia
A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this...
Scientists: Don't Worry About Atom-Smasher
Doomsday fears about the most powerful atom-smasher ever built, such as inadvertently creating a black hole, are unfounded and ridiculous, say scientist.
Fermilab Bailed Out by Congress [News]
The nation's premier particle physics laboratory--Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill.--just got a new lease on life. [More]