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A Maybe Planet, Orbiting Its Maybe Sun
Astronomers have published a picture of what they say might be the first image of a planet orbiting another Sun-like star.
Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-dominated Galaxy In Universe
Astronomers have discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist. The galaxy, called Segue 1, is one of about two dozen small satellite galaxies orbiting our own...
New Video - Hubble's Last Service Call
A musical animation of the space shuttle capture, service and separation of the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/GSFC
NASA Extends Mars Lander Mission Again
NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again.
Hubble Spies Galaxy Silhouettes
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy....
Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that...
Scientists Find Black Hole 'Missing Link'
Scientists have found the "missing link" between small and super-massive black holes. For the first time the researchers have discovered that a strong X-ray pulse is emitting from a giant...
VIDEO: Arctic Ice in "Death Spiral"
NASA animations show dramatic Arctic ice melt again in 2008, which saw the second smallest Arctic sea ice cover on record, scientists announced this week.
Moderate Quantities Of Dirt Make More Rain
Drought or deluge? Scientists have now discovered how aerosols affect the when, where and how much of rainfall.
Robotic Prius Takes Itself For A Spin
An unusual motorcade made its way across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early one morning last week: a silver Toyota Prius, complete with police escort and camera crew, but with...
ESA holds children's design competition
PARIS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is inviting primary school children to take part in a competition to design a T-shirt an ESA astronaut will...
Russia to help Cuba build space center
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow is ready to help Cuba develop its own space center, Russia's space agency chief said on Wednesday after talks in Caracas with Venezuelan and Cuban officials,...
Caspar Melville: The intellectual fireworks over at the New Humanist prove that there's life in the intelligent design debate yet
Caspar Melville: Intellectual fireworks over at the New Humanist site prove that there's life in the intelligent design debate yet
Vatican: Guess what, Darwin? Evolution is OK
The Vatican said on Tuesday the theory of evolution was compatible with the Bible but planned no posthumous apology to Charles Darwin.
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NASA: Arctic sea ice at 2008 low point … New ovarian cancer treatment is developed … NASA mission will study Martian atmosphere … Genetic profile linked with cleft palate ......
Was the inventor of the telescope Dutch, Italian or Spanish?
Was the telescope invented in Spain, not in the Netherlands as popularly assumed?
Estrogen cream flunks sun damage test, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Estrogen creams do not help reduce wrinkles, especially those caused by the sun, researchers reported on Monday.
Self-flying helicopter gets off ground in Calif
STANFORD, California (Reuters) - A four-foot-long helicopter flew itself over the Stanford University campus on Monday in a test of artificial intelligence that researchers say could be used to scout...
Sun might be a long-distance traveler
SEATTLE, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- U.S-led scientists say the sun might have traveled far from where it formed, contradicting a belief that stars generally remain static.
NASA uses commercial microgravity services
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency, for the first time, has used microgravity research flights aboard commercially owned aircraft to test hardware and technologies.
Eight-Legged Space Survivor Gives 'Panspermia' New Life
Eight-legged animals survived exposure to the harsh environment of space, supporting the idea that simple life forms could travel between planets.
Improved telescope may find planets
Telescopes recalibrated using a Nobel Prize winning laser technique will measure the Universe with the precision of a fine tooth comb, and could even find new planets.
NASA eyes nuclear reactor for moon base
NASA is tip-toeing once again into what was once called the N-word — nuclear — with a technology development program aimed at powering its planned base on the moon.
Accurate Speedometer For Astronomy: Determining Velocities Of Stars And Other Celestial Bodies
There is now a new method for determining the velocities of stars and other celestial bodies which is a thousand times more accurate than previous methods.
Science: Documents show Spaniard, not Dutchman, invented telescope
Four hundred years on, documents suggest original design was Spanish
US astronaut promotes Mexican space agency
A US astronaut of Mexican origin, part of the crew for an Atlantis Space Shuttle voyage in July 2009, presented a project for a Mexican space agency to senators here...
Hackers 'find black hole in atom smasher computers'
Hackers claim they have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos, British newspapers reported on Saturday.
Adventurer Ralph Plaisted Dies
WYOMING , Minn., Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Polar pioneer Ralph Plaisted -- the first man to indisputably reach the top of the world -- has died at age...