Shuttle Astronauts Rehearse Launch Day

Discovery astronauts completed a dress rehearsal for their upcoming launch.

Chilean volcano captured blasting ash

Chile`s Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke (centre left of image) into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina`s Patagonia Plateau in this Envisat image acquired on...

Study shows spiders use UV light to mate

WUHAN, China, May 5 (UPI) -- Chinese scientists have found ultraviolet B light plays a role in spider sex, the first evidence of animals being able to see...

GIOVE-B spacecraft in good health

After its successful launch by a Soyuz Rocket from Baiknour on 27 April and accurate insertion into its target orbit by the Fregat autonomous upper stage, GIOVE-B is now completing...

John Hopkins plans mission to the sun

BALTIMORE, May 3 (UPI) -- Maryland's Johns Hopkins University said it is developing a spacecraft designed to go closer to the sun than any other probe has gone.

Supercomputer To Simulate Extreme Stellar Physics

A team of scientists will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, simulating an event that takes less than five...

Titan's Smoggy Sand Grains

NASA scientist Jason Barnes says Titan and Earth have much in common, but not when it comes to sand.

Canadian satellite to detect Earth hits

OTTAWA, May 2 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes.

Station's First Female Commander Confident of Soyuz Fix

Did the solar system 'bounce' finish the dinosaurs?

The sun’s movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system – coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims. read more

Solar Images Show Green And Blue Flashes

The Earth's atmosphere is a gigantic prism that disperses sunlight. In the most ideal atmospheric conditions, such as those found regularly above Cerro Paranal, this will lead to the appearance...

Ketchup Experiment Recovered from Columbia Crash

Data recovered from a damaged computer hard-drive that was aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia.

NASA Delays Shuttle Flight to Hubble Space Telescope

NASA has delayed the final shuttle flight to overhaul the Hubble Space Telescope.

Moon to Hide a Beehive

On Saturday, May 10, the moon will occult Praesepe, or the Beehive.

Euronews looks at : Water and the Universe.

Water, water everywhere - a vital resource that is a defining feature of our planet. But how much do we really understand about the water around us - where does...

Japan's Space Station Laboratory Ready to Fly

The International Space Station's massive Japanese lab is ready to launch.

GearCrave Interview with Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson

Gadget blog GearCrave, in their "first of a series 'Dream Job' Interviews," has a great back-and-forth with International Space Station astronaut and all-around-good-guy Clayton Anderson. read more

Review: Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use, share

(AP) -- Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light...

Former head of B.C. observatory to receive international astronomy award

A Canadian astronomer whose did pioneering work in the discovery of dwarf galaxies and other interstellar phenomena will be given a prestigious lifetime achievement award on Thursday.

Astronomers Discover New Type Of Pulsating White Dwarf Star

Astronomers have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star, with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. Called a "pulsating carbon...

Story Tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2008

1) ACCELERATORS -- Paving the way; 2) ENERGY -- Rubber hits the road; 3) SOLAR-- More potent photovoltaics; 4) FORENSICS -- New weapon.

Globular clusters: Not as old as thought?

EVANSTON, Ill., May 1 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency astronomers say they've found some of the oldest objects in the universe might be younger in their development than...

Time 100's Top Techies

You're reading it here first ... the tech-related members of the much-hyped Time 100 due to be announced on Time.com overnight.

What Mars Fossils Might Look Like

A river in Spain may show how signs of life could be preserved on Mars.

We're the 'waste' from distant stars

Cosmologist and astrophysicist, Martin Rees, on the big bang and beyond

Inspector General: Conflict of Interest on NASA Review Board

NASA's inspector general says the agency is allowing conflicts of interest.

Catching planets in the making

It took a real oddball of a star--or rather, pair of stars--to provide the exceptional conditions that made detection possible of the intermediate stage of planet formation by a team...

'4-D' ionosphere map helps flyers, soldiers, ham radio operators

Today, at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colo., NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new “4D” live model of Earth`s ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly...