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Cosmic Collision Likely Spawned Massive Nearby Galaxy
Centaurus A likely formed when a spiral galaxy and an elliptical galaxy merged.
Google's futuristic "Project Glass" eye wear
Ultra-connected prototype glasses pull up maps, directions, events notifications, and locations of nearby friends, right in the wearer's line of sight
Future Human-Rated Spacecraft Gets Drop Test | Video
Boeing and partner Bigelow Aerospace dropped their Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) spacecraft from 11,000 feet and it successfully parachuted down to the Delamar Dry Lake Bed in Nevada on April...
How the Moon Affects the Date of Easter
Friday (April 6) brings us the first full moon of the new spring season. [More]
Conjunction Junction: Venus and Jupiter Meet Over Pakistan in Skywatching Photo
Venus and Jupiter appeared to come closer this year and then passed each other on March 13.
12-mile-high Martian dust devil caught in act
A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by...
NASA extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck missions
(Phys.Org) -- NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space...
ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice
Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gathered...
Astronaut Poet Says 'Space Is My Mistress'
Astronaut Don Pettit has written a poem in honor of National Poetry Month.
Poll: Where Should Humans Build the 1st Space Colony?
Astronauts have walked on the moon, but where should they set up a colony?
Where to See America's Greatest Spaceships (Infographic)
Nearly two dozen museums and other locations around the U.S. (plus one in England) boast real spaceships that have carried astronauts on missions to orbit and the moon.
Voyager: humanity's farthest journey [video] | @GrrlScientist
We knew we were on a journey of discovery when we launched the Voyager spacecraft, but we had no idea how much there was to discover "We knew we were on a...
Video shows global ocean currents' 'dance'
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 4 (UPI) -- A video produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the flow of global ocean currents, researchers say.
Life may 'hide' beneath Jupiter moon crust
PASADENA, Calif., April 4 (UPI) -- Extraterrestrial life in the solar system may be hiding beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa, safe from blasts of radiation, U.S....
Alma telescope battles weather
Astronomers battle the weather in usually the driest place on Earth
Titanic Would Encounter More Icebergs Today?
If Titanic had sailed a hundred years later, it may have encountered many more icebergs, possibly due to global warming, scientists say.
Earth's Orbit Blamed for Ancient Hot Spells
Massive, ancient heat waves were likely triggered by cycles in the Earth's orbit, scientists say.
Scientist captures fiery volcano in mid-blast
Sicily's Mount Etna unleashed the latest in a year-long series of fiery shows this last weekend. It was the Italian peak's 23rd such display since January 2011, according to a...
How to See Elusive Planet Mercury in the Morning Sky
Mercury is nearly as bright as other naked-eye planets, but there's a trick to spotting the elusive planet.
NASA's Flying Telescope Captures the Death Sighs of a Sun
Dying Star NASA's SOFIA telescope and the FORCAST instrument captured this color-composite image of the planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), showing a dying sun-like star. NASA/DLR NASA's plane-with-a-hole-in-it has been busy making infrared astronomy...
Dark Side Ring of Light
The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the dark side of Saturn's largest moon as a circle of light is produced by sunlight scattering through the periphery of Titan's atmosphere.
Big Astronomy Demands Prompt Growth for European Observatory
The new facilities will be environmentally friendly and will make use of natural light.
Dancing On Our Star: Sun's Magnetic Tendrils Share Plasma | Video
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the Sun sharing its super-heated dark plasma in a magnetic dance that would amaze the DWTS judges. This solar pas de deux exchanges material along...
Space Station Re-Boost: Watch Engines Fire | Video
Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) serves as both cargo ship and booster for the ISS. The altitude of Space Station has to be re-adjusted from time to time to compensate...
STAR TRAK for April
Saturn will gleam at its biggest and brightest for the year during April, remaining near its peak of visibility for most of the night throughout the month.
Space savings for station science samples
Efficiency is the name of the game when talking about packing things into small spaces. Anyone who has ever tried to compress an overstuffed suitcase knows that one of the...
Handover of Japan-built radar to NASA
On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR)...
A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation
(PhysOrg.com) -- A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first...