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Winter wettest ever, says Met Office
The UK has had wettest winter on record - 486.8mm of rain - beating previous 1995 record, Met Office says.
A forgotten model of the universe: Analysis of Einstein's 1931 paper featuring a dynamic model of the universe
Researchers have provided the first English translation and an analysis of one of Albert Einstein's little-known papers, "On the cosmological problem of the general theory of relativity." Published in 1931,...
NASA completes first ATTREX science mission
NASA's Global Hawk No. 872 completed a 17.5-hour science flight Feb. 14, it's first for the 2014 Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) mission. Objectives were to sample vertical distribution of...
Sochi Slopes Seen from Space
A satellite circling the globe captured pictures of the steep peaks outside of Sochi where skiers and snowboarders are striving for Olympic glory.
Science Times Podcast: The Podcast Hits the Road
This week, we travel to Chicago to the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference to sample science from outer space to inner space.
Study: Arctic Getting Earker, Making Earth Warmer
The Arctic isn't nearly as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice melting in the ocean, and that's turning out to be a global problem,...
Image: Where's Gaia?
(Phys.org) —Disguised in a crowded field of stars, the tiny white dot highlighted in these two images is none other than ESA's Gaia satellite as seen with the Very Large...
Asteroid races past Earth at 27,000 mph
Estimated to be size of 3 football fields, it streaks by some 2.1 million miles up -- considered close, in space terms
Early night cost Higgs physics glory
Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs could have been one of the architects of the biggest physics theory - but missed out because of an early night.
Martian homes in 1-way Mars mission designed by a Canadian
Canadian Bryan Versteeg is the artist behind the Martian space habitat accompanying news stories about a one-way mission to the Red Planet planned by the Mars One Foundation.
DARPA Helps Cadets, Midshipmen Prep for Cyber Mission
During a winter weekend in Pittsburgh, more than 50 cadets […]
Space station SPHERES run circles around ordinary satellites
Inspired by a floating droid battling Luke Skywalker in the film Star Wars, the free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) have been flying aboard...
Silicon Valley startups in forefront of new space race
Prepare yourselves for the Greatest Show Not on Earth. Offering us all a front-row seat for planetary images that could make Google Earth seem so last decade, a slew of...
Image: Hubble looks into Terzan 7
Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7—a densely packed ball of stars bound together by gravity. It lies just over 75,000...
The measure of the universe through doppler lensing
There are so many galaxies in the universe that if you point a telescope in any direction in the night's sky you are bound to see some.
Image: Chandra Observatory sees a heart in the darkness
This Chandra X-Ray Observatory image of the young star cluster NGC 346 highlights a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius gas in the central region. Evidence from radio, optical and...
Can scientists know that they do not know?
Imagine you knew everything about the current universe – the state of every single particle – and all the laws governing the universe's evolution. Endowed with such knowledge, you could...
Inside astronaut Alexander’s head
The clock is ticking: in 100 days ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be launched to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and cosmonaut commander Maxim Surayev.
A small satellite that knows its way around immensity
(Phys.org) —CubETH is the name of a joint project between EPFL's Swiss Space Center and ETHZ whose main objective is to build a satellite scheduled for launch in late 2015....
Kepler Mission: K2 spacecraft operation tests continue
On Jan. 30, in response to an invitation from NASA Headquarters, the Kepler team submitted a proposal to the 2014 Astrophysics Senior Review of Operating Missions to continue scientific observations...
Mission accomplished for Mars expedition
Ashley Dale, a PhD student in Aerospace engineering, led a team of seven experts on the two week mission to the Mars Desert Research Station [MDRS] in Utah.
Space Dust Is Filled with Building Blocks for Life
A study of teeny-tiny meteorite fragments revealed that two essential components of life on Earth as we know it, could have migrated to our planet on space dust.
Sochi 2014: 10 best sunsets at the Winter Olympics – in pictures
Hosting the Games on the fringe of the Black Sea has meant day after day of beautiful sunsets. Here are some of our favouritesJonny Weeks
VIDEO: US weather: Why is it so severe?
The BBC's science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports from Chicago on why the US has been gripped by such extreme weather patterns.
New NASA Laser Technology Reveals How Ice Measures Up
New results from NASA's MABEL campaign demonstrated that a photon-counting technique will allow researchers to track the melt or growth of Earth's frozen regions. When a high-altitude aircraft flew over the...
Best Night Sky Photos of the Week: Feb. 15, 2014
From stunning images of a massive sunspot to a rare sight of Venus during the day, don't miss these spectacular night sky images by stargazers and Space.com readers.
Space Age Toys Land at NYC Toy Fair Sunday
The newest cosmic toys under the sun will be on display at an international convention kicking off this weekend.
Wow! The Most Amazing Images in Science This Week
Rainbow mist, light-trapping corals and the violent sun are just a few of the amazing images we have from Science this week.