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Landsat satellite images compare before and after Massachusetts tornado
Satellites provide a lot of useful information and the Landsat 5 satellite captured an image of the long damage track created on June 1, 2011 when a tornado tracked from...
Exploded Star's Guts Shining Bright Again, Photo Shows
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows details of a supernova explosion in a neighboring galaxy.
6 Hard Facts About NASA's Next Mars Rover
The Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, will launch in late 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012.
Google dives deeper into the oceans
Cosmic Log: By now, you've found your house, your favorite golf course, the Grand Canyon, Disney World, maybe even the world's largest beaver dam using Google Earth. Now, the application...
Tracking the wildfire devastation from space
NASA satellites send back images of the massive wildfires now ravaging eastern Arizona
What Makes an Alien Encounter Movie Believable?
While most alien movies miss the boat completely in the believability department, a few make an effort.
Enormous Surfer Waves on Sun Hotter Than Hell
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has spotted United States sized waves in the Sun's atmosphere that can be a 1000 times hotter than the solar surface.
Ups and Downs: How to Launch a Student Balloon Into the Stratosphere
See how a team of students and NASA launch a weather balloon into the stratosphere.
Centuries-old math formula helps map galaxy clusters
(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the universe, galaxies band together in clusters so huge it can take 10 million years for light to travel from one end of a galaxy cluster to...
Call for Media: Giotto and Rosetta – 25 years of comet science
ESA PR 17 2011 Twenty-five years ago, ESA's Giotto spacecraft made its mark in deep space. Passing Halley’s comet at a distance of only 600 km, Giotto was the first...
Police: Computer tech installed peeping software
(AP) -- A Southern California computer repairman suspected of installing spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes...
First images from new telescope released
PARANAL, Chile, June 8 (UPI) -- A new telescope in Chile, the largest in the world designed exclusively to survey the sky in visible light, has returned its first...
Extremely bright supernovae are in a class of their own
A Caltech-led scientific team discovers a new type of supernova, which may be 100 times more luminous than typical exploding stars. The next mystery is to figure out why this...
JPL Shares Excitement of Exploration at Open House
This year's Open House, "The Excitement of Exploration," attracted more than 38,000 space enthusiasts to JPL over the two-day event.
NASA imagery sees a reawakening of system 98A in the Arabian Sea
System 98A has been bringing rains, gusty winds and churning up the surf along the Arabian Seacoast of west-central India for days, and NASA satellite imagery confirms that it is...
Video: Rosetta Probe Gets First Glimpse of Its Ultimate Target
Probe will drop a lander on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014
Seeing Things On Mars: A History of Martian Illusions
In this vast and lonely universe, are Earthlings just desperate for next door neighbors to play with?
Pictures: Homemade Personal Spacecraft Lifts Off
Private spaceflight took one giant step forward Friday, when the homemade, one-person Tycho Brahe spacecraft lifted off in Denmark.
Dot Earth: Shaping Energy Menus Through 2030
In a country flush with tar sands, gas and hydro power, a discussion about energy paths through 2030.
18-year-old star hacker arrested in Greece
Police in Greece have arrested an 18-year-old star hacker suspected of breaking into the website of crimefighting agency Interpol and a number of US state agencies, a senior officer said...
Dads in Space: Family Time on the ISS
Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and astronaut Mike Barratt, aboard the International Space Station, share some quality personal time with their families on Earth via telecon.
U.N. to upgrade "space weather" forecasts
OSLO (Reuters) - A U.N. plan to upgrade "space weather" forecasts can help the world cope with solar storms that might wreak up to $2 trillion in damage if the...
Live Chat: The Search for Alien Life Within Our Solar System
Experts answer your questions about searching for life on Mars, Europa, and other worlds
ARD Mediathek enhanced with new search functions
This May new and improved search capabilities were introduced on the ARD Mediathek portal. Visitors to the website can now target their searches for TV and radio content more specifically....
Team calculates the role of buried layers in few-layer epitaxial graphene
A CNST-led collaboration with the University of Maryland and the University of Texas has computed how electrostatic interactions between electrons in different layers of few-layer graphene affect the properties of...
Big Bang Not To Follow Pluto
Over at SB, Ethan Siegel discusses once again the Definition of the Big Bang. Here on Science2.0, there are often heated discussions about the Big Bang. What is funny about...
News in Brief: Atom & Cosmos
NASA’s plans to sample an asteroid, good-bye to Spirit rover, Neptune’s spin and more in this week’s news
Orbit Power Calculations
Fellow Tubesat pioneer Wesley Faler of Fluid & Reason has calculated power curves we can expect for our orbiting picosatellites. His summarized estimate is that 6-cell solar panel in a...