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The GOES-11 Satellite sees System 96E getting tropically organised
System 96E appears to be getting organised, and that's apparent in the latest visible imagery from the GOES-11 satellite...
Astronauts train to survive -- on ground
PARIS, July 14 (UPI) -- Officials says astronaut candidates in the European Space Agency are being given survival training -- how to survive on the ground, that is. ...
Microsoft and NASA Team Up On 3-D Space Images
Enhanced with new data from NASA, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope lets users make their own astronomic discoveries.
Higgs Discovery Is 'Just Rumors,' Tweets Fermilab
Fermilab's Twitter Response Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory responds via Twitter to rumors that circulated earlier this week claiming its Tevatron accelerator may have discovered the elusive Higgs boson: "Let's...
NASA's Newest Images of the Gulf Oil Slick
NASA Satellites Have Tracked the Spread of the Oil Spill Since the Deepwater Horizon Rig Exploded
Russia and Iran to sit down over energy
MOSCOW, July 13 (UPI) -- Officials from Iran and Russia are expected to meet Wednesday to discuss collaboration in the energy sector, officials in Moscow said. ...
Origin of key cosmic explosions still a mystery
When a star explodes as a supernova, it shines so brightly that it can be seen from millions of light-years away. One particular supernova variety - Type Ia - brightens...
Sun-Stirred Lunar Dust Could Wear Down Moon Machines
A natural, dust-driven decay process might exist on the moon that would degrade manmade instruments over the long term.
Cosmic Log: Matisse masterpiece remade
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Researchers colorize a black-and-white photo of Henri Matisse's "Bathers by a River" to reconstruct the thought process behind the masterpiece. Matisse...
Making the invisible visible: Verbal -- not visual -- cues enhance visual detection
Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the...
New Technology Turns Water Drops into 3-D Display
A new display “screen” made out of water droplets creates 3-D images that can be viewed without special glasses.
Extra large galactic survey puts limits on ultralight particles
Physicists have long known that neutrinos are among the lightest and most evasive fundamental particles. Now a survey of the galaxies is helping to narrow down the neutrino mass even...
Skydiver Plans Record-Breaking Supersonic Space Jump
A skydiver plans to leap from space in a dive that would break world records and the sound barrier.
Norwegian ship-tracker launched
Norway launches the innovative AISSat-1 spacecraft to monitor shipping in its territorial waters.
The constellation of Hercules
Venus, 3° above and left of Regulus in Leo, is very bright but low down in the W at nightfall, edging away from the star in the direction of the fainter Mars...
Science Weekly: A postcard of our universe
Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist at University College London, tells us about her work on the cosmic microwave background using Esa's Planck observatory. We discuss the beautiful image of our universe revealed to the...
ScienceShot: Rough Life for Asteroid Lutetia
Rosetta flyby finds a very old and heavily-battered object
Surprisingly regular patterns in hurricane energy discovered
Researchers in Spain have discovered a mathematical relation between the number of hurricanes produced in certain parts of Earth and the energy they release.
Russia puts US telecoms satellite into space
A Russian Proton-M rocket launched a US telecommunications satellite into orbit from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, the Khrunichev space centre and ILS launch services provider said.
Rain of giant gas clouds create active galactic nuclei: New research explains how galaxy centers light up
Galaxies like our own were built billions of years ago from a deluge of giant clouds of gas, some of which continue to rain down. Now new calculations tie the...
Total solar eclipse fans chase a moment in the sun
They travel thousands of miles to catch the celestial intersection of sun and moon, which some describe as a spiritual high. On Sunday, it happens again. ...
Discovery crew gets hands-on training
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., July 9 (UPI) -- The six Discovery astronauts visited Kennedy Space Center in Florida for hands-on training with equipment they'll be using during their 11-day...
5 Celestial Lights to Brighten July's Nights
Five of the sky's brightest and most dazzling lights will make appearances over the western horizon several nights this month, according to the skywatching publication StarDate magazine.
A New Way to Find Earths
Astronomers have used a completely new technique to find an exotic extrasolar planet. The same approach might even be sensitive enough to find planets as small as the Earth in...
Scientists hunt for signs of earliest life on Earth
No one knows when the very first life on Earth appeared though what little evidence scientists have indicates that life was present not very long after our planet formed. ...
Pulsing Stars May Be Most Accurate Clocks In the Universe
Rapidly spinning stars could be used as superbly accurate cosmic clocks, thanks to a new discovery that helps explain how they rotate.
Pfizer Hemophilia presents new data at the World Federation of Hemophilia 2010 Congress
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, July 9 — Pfizer Inc, the world’s leading biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the results of a number of hemophilia studies will be presented at the...
Senate Panel Near Agreement on Bill to Roll Back NASA Changes
The bill would reverse large swaths of President Obama’s proposed changes to NASA’s human space flight program.