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Missions Proposed to Explore Mysterious Tilted Planet Uranus
Several Uranus missions are in development, but none have been approved and funded yet.
Moon Packed with Precious Titanium, NASA Probe Finds
A new map of the lunar surface revealed areas rich in valuable titanium ore.
Triple Asteroid Crash Created Sudan Meteorites
Meteorite fragments that fell over Sudan could have come from a space rock that was formed by a triple-asteroid collision.
Astronomers hone in on the cause of asteroid Scheila’s outburst
A remarkable discovery was made by astronomers on Dec. 12, 2010: an asteroid named Scheila had changed its appearance and looked more like a comet, complete with bright tail. An...
Neutrinos In The Earth Teach Us About The Sun
Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, the Borexino instrument, an international team are measuring the flow of solar neutrinos reaching Earth more precisely than ever...
Astrophysics and extinctions: News about planet-threatening events
Space is a violent place. If a star explodes or black holes collide anywhere in our part of the Milky Way, they'd give off colossal blasts of lethal gamma-rays, X-rays...
Russia to abandon rocket booster work
MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Russia's space agency Roscosmos says it has decided to abandon the development of its Rus-M booster rocket because of inadequate funding.
Photos: Astronaut Mark Kelly Retires with Wife Gabrielle Giffords at Side
NASA astronaut Mark Kelly received awards from wife Gabrielle Giffords and Vice President Joe Biden during his retirement.
'Jaw-Dropping!' Crab Nebula's Powerful Beams Shock Astronomers
Inexplicably powerful gamma-ray beams were detected from the heart of the Crab Nebula.
Hidden Alien Planets Discovered in Old Hubble Telescope Data
Astronomers found visual evidence of two elusive exoplanets using old data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Paranal-mal Activity
The Milky Way shines in all its majesty, as well as the Magellanic Clouds on the right, at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
High-Mass Stars Seen Clearly for the First Time
Stars about eight times more massive than our Sun have pumped big energy into our galaxy. But only now can astronomers see these stellar mammoths. Star cluster NGC 281 lies...
MERMAIDs detect distant earthquakes
MERMAIDs detect distant earthquakesNature News , 07102011 doi: 10.1038/news.2011.583Naomi LubickFree-floating observatories record seismic waves to help study Earth's interior.
Sex-Crazed Astrologer Was a Stellar Records Keeper
17th century medical files are most extensive from that period
Tracing the canals of Mars
In a remarkable discovery, images taken over the past five years by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which circles Mars to photograph...
Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images taken by ESAs Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced...
Giant in the Night Sky: Skywatcher Spots Colossal Pinwheel Galaxy
French skywatching enthusiast Thierry Legault captured a brilliant deep-sky image of the Pinwheel Galaxy.
Astrophysicists Spot Unusual Radiation from Crab Nebula
The VERITAS array of telescopes has detected pulsed gamma rays from the pulsar at the heart of the Crab Nebula that have energies far higher than the common theoretical models...
Call for Media: 20 years of ERS missions
ESA PR 26 2011 - ERS-2 was retired from service in September. To mark the 20 years of the ERS Earth observation mission at ESA, media are invited to ESA...
Supersaturated water vapor in Martian atmosphere
Analysis of data collected by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft leaves no room for doubt: the Martian atmosphere of contains water vapor in a supersaturated state. This surprising...
Solar systems: Energy from sun can pay for panels in about 10 years
Ben Cuker lives what he teaches as a professor of marine and environmental science at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.
Comet Garradd Visible in Telescopes This Month, But What About Comet Elenin?
Comet Garradd is vsible in binoculars and small telescopes through October.
Upside-Down Mountain Revealed Inside Earth
New images reveal surprisingly dramatic silhouettes lurk in Earth's interior.
Private Space Station Builder Downsizes Dramatically
Bigelow Aerospace recently underwent a sweeping round of layoffs.
APL Builds On Earth Science Success With New Hosted Payload Proposal
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are proposing a new space-based monitoring system called Earth's Radiation Imbalance System, or ERIS, that would provide the most detailed data...
Did Mercury and Uranus Have a Rough Youth After All?
Violent early solar system not ruled out, scientists say
Searching for Life in All the Right Places
Listening Post Scientists and amateurs use radio telescopes at the Allen Telescope Array to listen for alien transmissions. Redding Record Searchlight/ZumapressWhy we're closer than ever to the discovery that will change everything Curious...
Milky way home to ‘gas snakes’
Space between stars in the Milky Way is filled with continuously swirling and churning gas, a new study shows.