A curious pair of galaxies

Sometimes objects in the sky that appear strange, or different from normal, have a story to tell and prove scientifically very rewarding. This was the idea behind Halton Arp's catalogue...

Big and small dents

The Earth explorer satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), built by the European Space Agency ESA, was successfully launched from the Russian Cosmodrome Plesetsk. GOCE is the...

NASA Explorer Schools Compete in Lego Robotics Contest

Fillmore's San Cayetano Elementary School and Mesa Union School from Somis captured top honors at the 3rd Annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition at JPL on Tuesday, March...

Another 158 TV stations to kill analog early

(AP) -- Regulators have cleared 158 TV stations around the country to shut down their analog broadcast signals before June 12, when the remaining full-power stations will end theirs.

Asteroid to Fly By Earth Wednesday

A small asteroid will fly past Earth early tomorrow morning (Wed., March 18).

Hearts Of Galaxies Close In For Cosmic Train Wreck

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with...

'Bracketology' Tip to Ignore Seedings After Sweet Sixteen

Seedings in the NCAA basketball tournament lose predictive power after third round.

NASA awards launch services contract

WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has selected United Launch Alliance of Littleton, Colo., to provide launch services for various missions.

Launch readiness confirmed

Following the interruption of the countdown during the launch sequence of ESA's GOCE satellite yesterday, the teams in charge of launch operations worked hard to identify and solve the problem.

Galactic Dust Bunnies Found To Contain Carbon After All

Stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This discovery is significant because it adds to our knowledge of how stars form...

Blobs in Photos of Mars Lander Stir a Debate: Are They Water?

A theory that Mars salts could allow liquid water at close to 90 below.

Black Holes: Eternal Prisons No More, Stephen Hawking's Lecture

Celebrated physicist, Stephen Hawking, delivered an inspiring speech to a full house in Bovard Auditorium on March 10. USC College Dean Howard Gillman kicked off the event by introducing Nick...

Russia picking moon rocket design

MOSCOW, March 16 (UPI) -- Russian space officials say they will select the winning design this month for the rocket intended to carry cosmonauts to the moon within...

Southpaw Solar System

Meteorites might have seeded early Earth with "left-handed" amino acids

Ares Super-chute

NASA and U.S. Air Force test pilots have just dropped a 50,000-pound "dummy" rocket booster on the Arizona desert--and stopped it before it crashed. It's all part of NASA's plan...

Astronaut finalists announced by Canadian Space Agency

The next two Canadians to blast into space will be chosen from among 16 finalists announced by the national space agency Monday.

UAB space freezers deemed a success

The newest generation of compact research freezers is performing well in space and have already boosted the scientific capacity of the International Space Station (ISS), said engineers at the University...

Glitch delays Russian launch of European satellite

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday postponed the launch of its most sophisticated Earth observation satellites to date because of a technical glitch at a Russian...

Ares test rocket en route to Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 16 (UPI) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket have started a 2,917-mile journey from a manufacturing plant in Utah...

As Science Evolves, So Does Pluto

Pluto's status nowadays as a so-called plutoid and former planet may be official in the latest textbooks, but someone forgot to tell the astronomers.

Astronauts to Inspect Shuttle Heat Shield

Astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery will scan their heat shield on Monday.

US spy in sky, 12 miles high

Shuttle Launch 'A Giant Leap' for Japan

A Japanese astronaut is ushering his country into the realm of endurance spaceflight.

Google Mars offering up-to-date images

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Internet search engine Google says its Google Mars feature began offering up-to-date images of Earth's planetary neighbor Saturday.

For Space Commander, Birthday Wishes From Earth

The public can send birthday wishes to space station commander Michael Fincke.

The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)

On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout...

Seeing the future hot spells

Tapping satellite data to better predict killer heat waves

Galileo: Heavenly instruments

Florence pays tribute to one of its greatest sons as part of 400th anniversary celebrations of his earliest discoveries