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NASA Sets Sights on Mars After Unmanned Moon Shot
NASA launched two gravity probes toward the moon today. Mars is next.
Image: Katia from space
Katia was a tropical storm gathering energy over the Atlantic Ocean when one of the Expedition 28 crew took this photo on Aug. 31, 2011, from aboard the International Space...
Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - Aug. 28, 2011
Was it Hurricane Irene from space, a black hole swallowing a star or something else?
How Cold Is a Y Dwarf Star? Even You Are Warmer
Scientists have discovered the coldest type of star-like bodies known, which at times can be cooler than the human body.Astronomers had unsuccessfully pursued these dark entities, called Y dwarfs, ever...
Russia may delay manned space launch after crash: report
Russia may delay the next manned launch for the International Space Station (ISS) after an unmanned space vessel crashed into Siberia instead of reaching orbit, a report said Friday.
Nasa hopes novel mission will take science fiction to new frontiers
A new collaboration is set to pair authors and scientists to produce a series of science-based novels to inspire the exlorers and inventors of the futureTime travel and warp drives may, alas, be...
CERN CLOUD research team adds new pieces to puzzle of cloud formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jasper Kirkby, a physicist at CERN and colleagues have built an experimental climate chamber to measure the impact of cosmic rays on aerosol creation to mimic the creation...
Striking Photo Looks Into the 'Eyes' of Cosmic Virgin
ESO's Very Large Telescope gets first look at the peculiar pair of galaxies.
Dwarf Planet Pluto Holds Big Surprises for Speedy NASA Probe
NASA's New Horizons mission will transform our understanding of Pluto.
Like no other view on Earth
You think your vacation pictures are impressive? Try to imagine what it was like 45 years ago as scientists and engineers produced the very first images of our planet from...
Human mission to an asteroid: Why should NASA go?
Imagine, if you can, the first time human eyes see Earth as a distant, pale blue dot. Weve dreamed of deep space missions for centuries, and during the Apollo era,...
Look, up in the sky - it's Aeroecology
There are ecologists who study land, and ecologists who study the ocean -- but who looks up and studies the air that circles the entire planet? Until recently, not many.
Should Pluto Be a Planet? New Finds Drive Debate
Discoveries made since the 2006 ruling have astronomers divided over whether the definition of a planet passes scientific muster.
A Conversation With Pluto's Killer: Q & A With Astronomer Mike Brown
SPACE.com chats with Caltech planetary scientist Mike Brown, the man who "killed" Pluto.
Galactic Eyes Peer Out Through Virgo
A pair of galaxies, nicknamed "The Eyes" because of their obvious ocular resemblance, get a close up through Europe's Very Large Telescope. Located 50 million light years from Earth,...
Mysteries of hall's rock solved
The mysteries of a boulder at a Norfolk stately home are solved by a UEA scientist.
U.S. claims record for strongest magnet
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say they have set a world record for the strongest magnetic field ever...
Planetary life transfer 'more likely'
Computer simulations suggest that violent asteroid impacts flinging life from Earth to other planets is more likely than previously thought.
Explorers scramble to build vessel that will reach Earth's deepest point
It's been more than 50 years since humanity ventured to the deepest place on Earth, but four crews now are racing to make a return trip.
Video: Space hotel coming in 2016
Russian company Oribital Technologies has unveiled their plan to have a hotel in space by 2016. Felipe Maya reports.
NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas
Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm.
Space sojourns coming to our solar system in 2016?
Russian space tourism firm says guests should expect to pay about $1 million for a five-day stay
Viking 1 examines Mars' Ophir Chasma
During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km, or about 3,106 miles, long, whose connected chasma or valleys...
Hubble Telescope Successor Could Get a Financial Lifeline
From Nature magazineThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is perilously overbudget and under threat of cancellation, but Naturehas learned that it may be offered a financial...
A moon rock of ages
Evidence of Starbucks on Mars? Probably not. But there have been some surprising recent discoveries about our solar system.We just can't get our solar system right. First, the beloved Pluto...
New CMS Limits On Higgs Mass
I have written enough today about the topic of Higgs boson searches at the LHC by discussing the new ATLAS limits (see previous post), but I feel that, before going...
Hints fade of elusive physics 'God particle'
International scientists searching to solve the greatest riddle in all of physics said Monday that signs are fading of the elusive Higgs-Boson particle, which is believed to give objects mass.
Meteor Measured From Space Station: How Big Was That Perseid?
NASA scientists have analyzed the photograph taken by Ron Garan aboard the ISS during the 2011 Perseid Meteor Shower and have deduced the size and speed it was traveling at when...