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Hubble Space Telescope is alive and clicking
The restarted telescope resumes sending pictures. But there's a new snag: A NASA repair team won't be sent to the aging craft until at least May. ...
NASA Tests Rover Concepts in Arizona
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's newest lunar rover prototype has now gone farther than it ever has before.
$350,000 Lunar Challenge winner announced
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas, has won $350,000 in prize money in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
Secrets from within planets pave way for cleaner energy
Research that has provided a deeper understanding into the centre of planets could also provide the way forward in the world's quest for cleaner energy. read more
Cameras Capture 'Fireball' In The Sky: Meteor May Have Crashed In Ontario
For the second time this year, the University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. Astronomers suspect the fireball dropped...
Astronauts Could Get Computer Therapist
A computer therapist could offer astronauts guidance before psychological problems compromise a mission.
Finances may threaten Soyuz construction
MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The Russian builder of the Soyuz spacecraft said construction of new spacecraft may be halted by a lack of funding.
Stellar Stethoscope Pushes the Envelope
New precision satellite measurements will enable scientists to probe insides of distant stars
Expedition 17 crew returns from space
HOUSTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- NASA said space traveler Richard Garriott and two members of the Expedition 17th crew have returned safely from the International Space Station.
The slow-spin zone at the core of the sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- The dense, hot, radioactive core of the Sun rotates significantly more slowly than the layer next to it, the radiative zone, a Stanford solar physicist has concluded.
Norovirus hits cruise ship in Halifax
A cruise ship visiting Halifax has been hit with a norovirus.
Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post
(AP) -- Cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space.
GOCE satellite launch delayed until 2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Russian authorities responsible for the Rockot launcher that shall carry ESA's GOCE Earth Explorer satellite into orbit have completed the investigation of a failure in the guidance...
Good Vibrations Of Nearby Stars: Satellite Data Sheds New Light On The Sun
Some of the first data collected by the CoRoT space telescope mission, launched in December 2006, provides valuable information about the physical vibrations and surface characteristics of nearby stars that...
Starquakes Seen Inside Faraway Stars
For the first time, quaking inside a star other than our sun has been recorded.
New Moon Rover Mixes Old-School Smarts With Latest Tech
The next astronauts on the moon will ride in style thanks to lessons learned from the Apollo missions and technology culled from decades of consumer car designs.
NASA begins spacecraft thermal vacuum test
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has started thermal vacuum testing of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, simulating the harsh rigors of space.
Endeavour is moved to its new launch pad
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Space shuttle Endeavour was moved Thursday from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Launch Pad 39A...
New light on moon water
The Japanese spacecraft Kaguya finds no visible evidence that a lunar south pole crater holds ice
SETI Signal Detectors See First Light on Radio Telescope
SETI detectors on the Allen Telescope Array have seen their first light.
Mars pioneers should stay there permanently, says Buzz Aldrin
The first astronauts sent to Mars should be prepared to spend the rest of their lives there, in the same way that European pioneers headed to America knowing they would...
British team launches bid for 1,000 mph land speed record
A British team launched an attempt on Thursday to set a new land speed record with a rocket-powered car that could reach 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 kilometres per hour).
Hurry! Life Must Form Quickly on Some Planets
Planets around small mass stars may only have a billion-year window during which life can form.
The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts
There's a universal tendency to heed Dylan Thomas's exhortation and go out with a bang instead of a whimper. Nowhere is this more evident than deep in the cosmos.
SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Cosmic Collision, More
A 12-billion-year-old cosmic collision is discovered, Santa Ana winds drive smoke across the Pacific, and more in our weekly update of space photos.
Microwaves Could Extract Water From Moon And Mars
When astronauts land on the Moon in the not too distant future, it's possible they will be visiting an outpost where they can pick up some fuel and a refreshing...
Tape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tape
NEW YORK (AP) -- Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much...
Study tracks water vapor in sub-tropics
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- NASA scientists, satellites and ground-based instruments are cooperating in a monthlong U.S. experiment to track water vapor in the Earth's subtropics.