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New Navigation Satellite Launches on Nighttime Rocket Flight
A Delta 4 rocket blasted off in a spectacular night launch in Florida.
Shuttle Astronauts Too Busy for 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2'
Shuttle astronauts won't have any time to catch the latest "Harry Potter" film in orbit, even though NASA has beamed movies into space before.
Monster Black Holes Aren't Always Born in Galaxy Collisions
Black hole feasts must be triggered by more mysterious processes.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
This image was taken through color filters and recombined to produce the color image.
"Dark Fireworks" Seen on Sun—Blast as Big as Ten Earths
New videos of a solar flare as big as ten Earths show strange plasma blobs in the sharpest detail yet.
SpaceX Breaks Ground on Launch Pad for Huge Private Rocket
The Falcon Heavy rocket will be delivered to its new launch site next year.
How I Caught the Last Shuttle Out of Town: One Veteran Reporter's NASA Tale
Veteran space reporter chronicles watching NASA's last shuttle leave Earth 30 years after watching the first flight.
Comet's Death by Sun Photographed for First Time
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory witnessed the death of a comet on July 6.
Zubrin claims VASIMR is a hoax
A next-generation plasma rocket being developed by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz called the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) has been touted as a way to get astronauts...
XCOR Lynx slated to fly new suborbital telescope
Commercial space company XCOR Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Planetary Science Institute, laying the groundwork for flying a human-operated telescope on board XCORs Lynx spacecraft. The...
Celebrating 10 years of Artemis
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESAs pioneering Artemis satellite today marks a decade in space. The Advanced Relay and Technology Mission was a breakthrough in telecommunications satellites for Europe, packed with new technologies...
How To Activate A Supermassive Black Hole
There were concerns among people who don't understand physics that the LHC might create a black hole and swallow the Earth. Obviously in an infinite Universe anything can happen...
Space Shuttle and Beyond: Q & A with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Prez Jim Maser
Jim Maser talks about the end of the shuttle era, and what comes next for NASA and the aerospace industry.
Astronomers probe matter in early universe
Smeared light from the dawn of time confirms ideas about dark energy
Researchers study pesticide pathways into the atmosphere
When soil moisture levels increase, pesticide losses to the atmosphere through volatilization also rise. In one long-term field study, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists found that herbicide volatilization...
Hell Unleashed: Sun Spits Fire in Close-Up
Watch as fiery solar material crashes back to the surface in this new, high-res video of the June 7, 2011 eruption. The Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this explosive event.
Congress Grills NASA Chief Over Next Big Rocket Design
NASA chief Charlie Bolden accepted responsibility for the delays and said a decision is coming soon.
Rover goes for test drive around polar regions
Engineers are testing a unique autonomous four-wheeled vehicle called Yeti that they hope will soon be cruising the polar regions of the planet bringing back climate, ice and atmospheric data.
"Manhattanhenge" about to descend on NY
Amazing light show - starring the Sun and New York's famous street grid - on tap for Wednesday
Punching holes in the sky
Scientists, photographers and amateur cloud watchers have been looking up with wonderment and puzzlement at "hole punch" clouds for decades. Giant, open spaces appear in otherwise continuous cloud cover, presenting...
Fast-food playlands under scrutiny
Arizona mom inspects, records appalling conditionsOn a humid Monday morning, Erin Carr-Jordan was crawling through the tubey slides of a McDonald's PlayPlace.
'Rough boroughs' of space listed
A catalogue of the sources of the most energetic light in nature - the sites of the Universe's most violent processes - gets an update.
New EPIC Director Named at UNC Charlotte
Johan Enslin comes from Petra Solar with Strong Leadership Record in Universities and Industry.
Solar Babies: Stars Born From Massively Active Parents
Observations of Cepheus B, a cloud of hydrogen 2,400 light years from Earth, is proving that more new stars are born through radiation emissions than previously thought.
Space Shuttle: Was It Worth It? Putting the Program in Perspective
The United States Space Transportation System (STS) was wondrous, but far from perfect. SPACE.com’s Dave Brody and MSNBC’s Alex Witt discuss the righteous rewards and the wrongful running of the...
$30 Million Private Moon Race Gets New Chief
Alexandra Hall will oversee the Google Lunar X Prize as its senior director.
Reflections of NASA's Last Shuttle to Fly
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls caught this serene view of shuttle Atlantis awaiting launch on July 7, 2011.
NASA's smartphone-powered satellite
In 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor David Miller showed the movie, "Star Wars" to his students on their first day of class. Following the scene where Luke Skywalker...