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Sun's Outer Atmosphere Revealed By Total Solar Eclipse
The atmosphere of the sun blazes in a new image from NASA that combines observations from Earth and space during the only total solar eclipse of this year.
India Launches Remote Sensing Satellites
India�s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on July 12 successfully launched the country�s Cartosat-2B advanced remote sensing satellite along with Algeria�s Alsat-2A spacecraft, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
Image: Black Hole Blows Big Bubble
This composite image shows a powerful microquasar produced by a black hole in the outskirts of the nearby (12.7 million light years) galaxy NGC 7793. The large image contains data...
NASA satellites see high, cold thunderstorm cloud tops in Tropical Depression 2
NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites confirmed that Tropical Depression Two (TD2) had some strong, high thunderstorms a day after its center made landfall. TD2 appears elongated on satellite imagery, and...
NASA to fly into hurricane research this summer
Three NASA aircraft will begin flights to study tropical cyclones on Aug. 15 during the agency's first major U.S.-based hurricane field campaign since 2001. The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes...
Get Out Your Decoder Ring; But Don't Get Excited
New Military Cyber Command Embedded Secret Code In Its Logo; Read It (if You Can) And Weep
Better-looking politicians get more media coverage
The better a politician's looks, the higher the frequency of television news coverage, according to a new study by researchers in Israel.
Dark cloud a real star producer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 8 (UPI) -- A mysterious cloud is forming stars at a furious rate inside one of the galaxy's colossal nebula, Pennsylvania State University researchers said. ...
Image: Apollo 16: Footsteps Under High Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- The lunar module Orion landed in the Descartes Highlands of the moon on April 21, 1972. The Apollo 16 mission targeted a highland region. Originally thought to be...
Recipes for Renegade Planets
Recent discoveries of gas giant planets in unusual orbits challenge the generally accepted theory of planet formation. While these discoveries do not disprove the theory, they have opened our eyes...
Team Solves 1991 Cold-Case
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab (CMIL) in collaboration with the NASA Payload Directed Flight research team from the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames, and the United States Geological...
Controversy over South Korea's sunken ship
Physicists' research casts doubt on idea that North Korean torpedo downed vessel.
Last shuttle fuel tank rolls off the line
NEW ORLEANS, July 8 (UPI) -- The giant fuel tank that will be used on the last scheduled U.S. space shuttle mission got its own send-off Thursday as it...
"Hubble Repairman" Becomes Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University
On July 1, the man nicknamed "the Hubble Repairman" became a research professor at Johns Hopkins University's Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Krieger School of...
Novel University Project Tackles Future of Space Exploration
A novel program at the nascent Singularity University in California is tackling the future of space exploration.
Puff, the Magic Dragon?
A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly with the stars in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (bottom). In visible light (top), the creature disappears into the...
STEREO Reveals Solar Storm Related to Failure Aboard Communications Satellite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed Naval Research Laboratory scientists to see recent solar activity that may have produced the first casualty...
Frustrating Zombie Satellite Still Adrift in Space
The so-called Galaxy 15 zombie satellite that lost contact with ground controllers on Earth in April is still adrift in space, with engineers keeping a close eye on the wayward satellite as...
NASA Chief Bolden's Muslim Remark to Al-Jazeera Causes Stir
The White House and NASA on Tuesday defended comments that the nation's top space official made on the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera about one of his "foremost" tasks being to...
Authoritative Skeptic John Christy: Russell Report 'Without Serious Merit'
An e-mail today on the Russell report from John Christy, a respected climate scientist...
After Spurned in Prize Effort, Equatorial Guinea Inks Deal on $3.6 Million Science Observatory
The tiny, oil-rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea will host a new center...
YouTube to gather videos for 'Life in a Day' movie
(AP) -- With the help of director Kevin Macdonald, producer Ridley Scott and a few hundred other filmmakers, YouTube is making a movie.
Sunrise to Sunset: Earth's Day Photographed From Space
New photos from the International Space Station show the Earth below as seen over the course of half an orbit around the planet.
What Would the Earth Look Like if it Stopped Spinning?
Equatorial Megacontinent Witold Fraczek What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? We don't have any reason to think it will in the next few million millennia, but Witold Fraczek, an employee of...
Fermilab Director Pier Oddone Reappointed to 2nd Term
The Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, Board of Directors announced today the reappointment of Piermaria Oddone to a second five-year term as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National...
Astronaut Talks Space with David Letterman
Mike Massimino was awestruck when he soaked in a view of Earth from hundreds of miles up.
Luminary Lineage: Did an Ancient Supernova Trigger the Solar System's Birth?
One star dies, another is born. The remains of the old are gathered up, at least in some small measure, to become part of the new. That is the astronomical...
Roma Versus Delta Ophiuchi - Watch While An Asteroid Eats A Star
You are all familiar with a solar eclipse, when our Moon passes in front of the Sun and blocks its light, but a similar situation can happen with asteroids, those...