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Photos: Total Lunar Eclipse of December 2011 - Part 2
These photos of the Dec. 10, 2011 total lunar eclipse capture an orange moon in the shadow of the Earth.
Life on Earth: Is our planet special?
Top scientists meet to discuss whether our planet is the only host to life in the Universe
Star births to be studied with 'x-ray' vision camera
A new astronomical camera designed to see through thick walls of galactic dust into the nurseries where stars are born is ready for astronomers to use.
Petition urges posthumous pardon for Alan Turing
Petition describes 1952 imprisonment of legendary computing pioneer as black mark on UK history
AUDIO: Super huge black holes found
Dr Michele Cappellari, astrophysicist at Oxford University describes how scientists have discovered black holes 10 billion times bigger than the sun.
Birth of the 'double tsunami' that swamped Fukushima – video
Nasa video compiled from satellite and GPS data shows how multiple waves merged to form the Japan tsunami
Distant world looks too ripe for life
Though in the habitable zone, newly discovered planet probably not habitable
Robot Surgeon Tech Aims to Fix NASA Satellites
A robotic surgeon could go from fixing heart disease patients to repairing satellites, space stations or moon bases.
Early Earth may have been prone to deep freezes, study finds
Researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think the...
Orion continues to make a splash
Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep...
Homegrown designs sprout for NASA's Commercial Crew Program
The expression goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention." And right now there is a need for NASA and the United States to have reliable access to low Earth orbit...
Astronomers Discover 18 Huge New Alien Planets
The discoveries increase the number of known planets orbiting massive stars by 50 percent.
German researchers set world record in one-loop computations
Professor Dr. Stefan Weinzierl of the Institute of Physics of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) and his group recently published a numerical computation of jet rates for the process e+e- -> n...
New Horizons becomes closest spacecraft to approach Pluto
NASAs New Horizons mission reached a special milestone yesterday, Dec. 2, 2011, on its way to reconnoiter the Pluto system, coming closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft.
NSV 11749 - born again and grown old
In 1996, a Japanese amateur astronomer discovered a new star in the constellation Sagittarius. Dubbed V4334 Sgr, astronomers initially expected it to be a typical novae, but closer examination revealed...
Astronomer Is Part of Team to Make First Detection of UV Emission from Hydrogen in Milky Way Galaxy
Jean-Loup Bertaux, a researcher at Boston University's Center for Space Physics, is a member of an international team of astronomers who have detected for the first time ultraviolet (UV) emissions...
Mountains and buried ice on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could...
ESA's space weather station Proba-2 tracks stormy sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers gathered for European Space Weather Week have been presented with the latest results from ESAs own space weather station: the Proba-2 microsatellite.
Alien Planet's Auroras: Beautiful And Frightening
Jupiter-sized planet CoRoT-2b is routinely slammed by solar storms that are 100,000 times stronger than what we experience on Earth, decimating its atmosphere. Researchers speculate that auroras would be seen...
Watch replay: Mars500 press conference in Paris
Watch the Mars500 press conference replay. After an overview of the mission, Romain Charles and Diego Urbina talk about their experiences during the 520 days in the isolation facility. Watch replay
Best Space Photos of the Week Dec. 3, 2011
From the photo of the birth of a solar system to the Curiosity mission launch, see the most amazing images from space this week.
Vote Now! Top Space Stories of the Week - Dec.4, 2011
From the launch of the Curiosity rover to a tour of Spaceport America and more, it was a busy week in space.
Wayward Russian probe may fall back to Earth
European Space Agency abandons effort to contact unmanned craft that faltered in liftoff towards Martian moon
ONR helps undersea robots get the big picture
Scientists have successfully transitioned fundamental research in autonomy to undersea gliders, demonstrating in recent sea tests how the new software, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), can help...
Russian Mars probe still unresponsive
Concerns for future of craft which malfunctioned shortly after launch nearly a month ago
Video: Japanese Astronaut Plays Baseball With Himself Aboard ISS
SpaceBall He wins every time! The Japanese seem to have the most fun aboard the ISS, making space sushi, and taking Twipics. Now, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa has accomplished what...
Cosmic rays tracked to 'cocoon' in star nursery
Astrophysicists think they may have partly solved the mystery of where cosmic rays come from.
The Most Amazing Images of the Week, November 28-December 2, 2011
Field of Lights At the Holburne Museum in the UK, artist Bruce Munro installed 5,000 glass spheres lit by fiber optics hooked up to a projector. It's designed to mimic...