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Planets may be forming around distant star
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A new image of spiral arms in the gas and dust around a sun-like star may provide clues to the presence of embedded...
NASA video: Watch the world burn
Since 2002, tens of millions of fires have broken out on Earth; now, a view from sp;ace
Comet-Seeded Alien Oceans Could Be Common
Researchers have found huge stores of water ice in the outer reaches of a newly forming alien solar system.
Oct. 21 'Doomsday' So Far Pretty Quiet
Radio preacher Harold Camping predicts that the world will end today (Oct. 21)
Planet-sized object as cool as Earth found
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The Spitzer Space Telescope has captured images of the coldest companion object to be directly imaged outside our solar system, U.S. scientists...
Astronomers explain blue stragglers: How do mysterious stars stay so young?
Mysterious "blue stragglers" are old stars that appear younger than they should be: they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don't show their age,...
Back space taxis or pay more for Russian rides: NASA
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) - An extra year of buying rides for astronauts to the International Space Station will cost the United States $450 million -- money that would...
Historic Space Shuttle Launch Pad Parts Arrive for Display in Houston
The launch pad gantry and White Room were used by NASA shuttle astronauts for 20 years.
Scientists discover way to determine when water was present on Mars and Earth
The discovery of the mineral jarosite in rocks analyzed by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, on the Martian surface had special meaning for a team of scientists who study the mineral...
Mars Rover Carries Device For Underground Scouting
Russia has provided a neutron-shooting instrument called DAN that will enable NASA's next Mars rover to detect water-bearing minerals buried underneath the rover.
2Legit: MC Hammer to Launch Search Engine
MC Hammer is launching his own search engine called WireDoo.
Tips for a healthy, happy Halloween
Ghosts and goblins, vampires and werewolves, haunted houses and hayrides. Though Halloween is all about being scared silly, the shock from stepping on the scale after pilfering through the collected...
GPM satellite takes a spin on the high capacity centrifuge
In the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md., the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's Core satellite is steadily taking shape. Set to measure rainfall worldwide...
German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy
The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky...
Tiny World 'Snow White' Has Water Ice and Maybe Atmosphere
The dwarf planet is half-covered with water ice and likely clings to the remnants of an atmosphere.
The moon is in the spotlight, or crosshairs, again
On July 20, 1969, millions viewers all over the world gathered around the television to watch as two humans changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. It...
Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior III makes maiden voyage
Purpose-built, ultra-modern and ready to fight environmental destruction on the high seas, Greenpeace's latest campaign ship, Rainbow Warrior III, made its maiden voyage Wednesday.
The Spark of a New Era
Three-quarters of a century ago, a small team of banished rocketeers lit a fuse that would eventually carry America to every planet in the solar system.
US Is Losing Race to Own the Moon, Entrepreneur Says
A new game of "solar system monopoly" is underway, Robert Bigelow said today.
Juno Lifts Off
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off carrying NASA's Juno mission.
Researchers explain the formation of Scheila's unusual triple dust tails
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers, primarily from Seoul National University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS),...
US, Mexico to upgrade border quake system
(AP) -- The U.S. and Mexico will upgrade an earthquake monitoring system along the border between California and Baja California in order to better deal with temblors such as...
600 mysteries in the night sky
NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No...
World record in 3d-imaging of porous rocks: A stack of 35 million megapixel-photos
Physicists have established a world record in the field of three-dimensional imaging of porous materials. The scientists have generated the largest and most precise three-dimensional image of the pore structure...
Sky & Telescopes
Four of the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) antennas gaze up at the night sky. Milky Way is visible at left.
Mexican astronomers suggest Bonilla sighting might have been a very close comet breaking up
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mexican astronomers Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and Guadalupe Cordero working out of National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, have uploaded...
Firestation in space to open firehose of lightning data
(PhysOrg.com) -- When opportunity knocked, NASA heliophysicist Doug Rowland answered. He and his team recently secured another flight opportunity for a pint-sized instrument studying lightning in Earth's upper atmosphere and...
Giant Space 'Bubble' Floats in Stunning Skywatcher Photo
The bubble, seen by skywatcher Larry Van Vleet in California, is 6 light-years wide and 7,100 light-years from Earth.