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Brian Marsden obituary
Astronomer who won a long campaign to demote Pluto from full planethoodIn 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the decision to assign Pluto the minor planet number 134340 – thus controversially demoting our...
Nuke Decay, CO2 Seen Powering Future Mars Rover
Scientists Devise Plan for Hopping Mars Rover to Run on Isotopes and Martian Air
Astronaut Photos Open Up World To Earthlings
Big Smiles To The Sky: Space Station Astronauts Open Up World To Earthlings Via Photos
An Astronaut Gives In to His Inner Shutterbug
Douglas Wheelock Lets the Folks Back on Earth See Their Planet in an Entirely New Light
Students fly in zero gravity to protect satellites from tiny meteoroids
Researchers have completed the first successful tests in zero gravity of a canopy for CubeSats -- the tiny satellites that hitch rides on rockets sending larger satellites into orbit. The...
Cost and Goals at Center of Arms Treaty Debate
The $85 billion plan and the long commitment to upgrade nuclear weapons is at the center of the standoff.
Salesforce shares soaring on cloud computing craze
(AP) -- A hot high-tech concept known as "cloud computing" is lifting Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock to lofty heights.
Z Bosons From Heavy Ion Collisions
A really interesting piece of news comes from the CERN laboratory today. The CMS experiment has detected a handful of Z boson decays in events featuring the collision between heavy...
Space tourism craft ready for more tests
LAS CRUCES, N.M., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital space tourist craft, is entering a period of aggressive U.S. testing to prepare it for commercial operations, its backers...
For Whom the Nobel Tolls: An Evening Out with James Watson
NEW YORK--Never open a reporter's notebook inside The River Club. "People don't do work here. It's just not done," admonishes James Watson , the Nobel laureate, who is seated...
Giant gamma ray bubbles in our galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gamma rays are the most energetic form of light, typically about one hundred billion times as energetic as optical light.
Penrose claims to have glimpsed universe before Big Bang
University of Oxford theorist points to evidence in cosmic microwave background
Space Pictures This Week: Star Jelly, Mars Pit, Wispy Moon
Earth becomes art, stars create glowing rings, pale veins scar a Saturn moon, and more in the week's best space pictures.
Image: Earth from space -- wind-inspired design
The pastel colours and soft, flowing shapes in this Envisat radar image of the Tanezrouft Basin in the Algerian Sahara contradict the harshness of the terrain that has led to...
Can the Sun's Siblings Be Found?
Stars born with the sun may be dispersed far and wide in the Milky Way
Gifts From The Sky
Every wonder what to get an astronomy fan for a present? In this 365DOA Podcast, Emma the waitress and Sandy the diner roleplay the Meteorite Cafe. Judging by that name,...
The Really Strange Story Behind Sunday's Blue Moon
The full moon of November arrives on Sunday and will bring with it a cosmic addition: It will also be a so-called 'Blue Moon.'
Should Pluto Be a Planet? Experts Weigh In
Now that Pluto looks to have regained the title of largest object in the outer solar system, should astronomers consider calling it a full-fledged planet again?
The incredible impact of stars on culture
For Hawaiian navigators, the star Sirius was "Hokuho'okelewa'a," meaning "star to guide canoe." Traditional Aboriginal Australians looked at the Magellanic Clouds and saw distant campfires in the sky.
NASA's Tasty-Sounding O/OREOS Mission Launches Today to Study Life's Origins In Outer Space
O/OREOS A computer rendering of O/OREOS, NASA's newest CubeSat. NASA A nanosatellite no bigger than a loaf of bread -- and named after cookies -- is set to launch today to study...
New Satellite Pictures: "Magnificent" Views of Earth
See Earth's largest sand sea, swirling ice "galaxies," Van Gogh-ready algae, and more in a new collection of artistic satellite images.
Bedbugs can hitch a ride on just about anything
You might want to think twice before combing the alleyways and resale stores for a bargain because one mans trash may turn into a treasure trove of bedbugs.
Lockheed Martin submits bid for Space Fence
Lockheed Martin submitted its proposal today for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space.
Mars Rover images honor Apollo 12
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.
Apollo 10: To the moon and back
As part of the Science Museum's 20th century icons series Doug Millard, senior curator of ICT and Space Technology and Colin Pillenger, who worked on the Apollo project, discuss the...
N.S. fireball likely a meteor
A fireball spotted in the sky above Nova Scotia's South Shore that triggered fears of a plane crash was probably just a meteor, officials say.
Perceptual changes – a key to our consciousness
With his coat billowing behind him and his right eye tightly closed, Captain Blackbeard watches the endless sea with his telescope. Suddenly the sea disappears as the pirate opens his...
Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Aces Its 3rd Glide Flight
Chalk up another successful gliding test flight for SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceliner.