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Satellite Photos Show Top Secret Helicopter Used in Osama bin Laden Raid
New satellite images show bin Laden's compound, a downed helicopter and roadblocks leading up to the complex.
Largest 3-D Map Opens Window to the Ancient Universe
The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the distance universe has been created using quasars.
What Earth would look like with Saturn's rings
If Earth had rings like Saturn or Uranus, what would that be like? In this brilliant fusion of fantasy, art and science, artist Roy Prol asks this question in this videoIf Earth...
NASA says no new launch attempt before next Sunday
NASA's space shuttles are dragging their tails toward retirement.
Measuring the distant universe in 3-D using light from 14,000 quasars
The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars over 10 billion light years away to show the distribution of intergalactic clouds of gas,...
Science Weekly Podcast: Tim Radford muses on our place in the cosmos
This week Alok Jha talks to former Guardian science editor Tim Radford about his new book The Address Book, an epic musing on our place in the universe, starting from his own...
Starwatch: The May night sky
Our May chart shows Bootes with the conspicuous star Arcturus (star 10) high in the S as the Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair climbs in the E and Leo descends...
Air France crash: black box recovered by search team
French investigators hope data will solve debate over whether faulty sensors caused 2009 accidentA black box flight recorder from an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil in 2009, killing...
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
A rationalist tries to pin down the moon's lure but finds himself succumbing to its mysterious charmWhen the astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he realised that if he raised...
Japan’s Prime Minister Defends Handling of Crisis
Naoto Kan’s remarks came after an adviser resigned to protest what he called unsafe measures.
Spiders in space: Researchers observe arachnid habits in a microgravity environment
The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters. In actuality, it is a scientific investigation called Commercial Generic Bioprocessing...
Scientists investigate twisters like detectives
(AP) -- Weather scientists are retracing the footprints of this week's monstrous tornadoes the way detectives would investigate a crime scene: talking to witnesses, watching surveillance video and even...
Chevron's environmental oil case turns into duel in the Amazon
LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador — Donald Moncayo walks to the edge of a flat grassy field that once held two large pits that brimmed with a stew of water and crude...
Former planet may have grown a tail
Pluto appears to trail a wispy carbon monoxide cloud
How Did NASA Pick Endeavour's New Launch Time?
There are many factors that dictate the optimal launch window, including orbital mechanics, lighting, wind and crew sleep cycles.
New software to support interest in extreme science
The University of Chicago's Flash Center for Computational Science has just released a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha. Based on previous software for simulating exploding stars,...
Obamas Visit NASA Spaceport Despite Shuttle Launch Delay
The Obamas visited the shuttle Atlantis as it is being primed for one last flight in June.
NASA building instrument to study reconnection
Whether it's a giant solar flare or a beautiful green-blue aurora, just about everything interesting in space weather happens due to a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. Several spacecraft have already...
Sounds from a Saturn Aurora
Amplified hiss-like radio noise generated by electrons that traveled along magnetic field lines from Enceladus to an aurora on Saturn were captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
STEREO Planet Finder
NASA's STEREO solar satellites ability to accurately monitor the brightness of variable stars is giving scientists an invaluable tool in discovering exoplanets and studying star inner structure; this video illustrates...
Testing Technicolor Physics
The National Science Foundation-funded "Ranger" supercomputer explores what lies beyond the standard model of particle physics.
Head of Russia's space agency replaced
MOSCOW, April 29 (UPI) -- Russia announced the replacement of its Roscosmos space agency chief, Anatoly Perminov, who was reprimanded for a failed satellite launch in December.
Voyager, the love story
(PhysOrg.com) -- One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows--aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the...
Exploring exploration
A live video feed from the International Space Station and a deep-sea radio transmission from near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill established broad parameters for a two-day symposium at MIT...
Equipment Problems Scrub Shuttle Launching
Endeavor’s mission was postponed for at least three days for repairs to a system that powers the movement of the shuttle’s engines and flaps.
Russia ferries supplies to space
An unmanned Russian cargo vessel on Friday docked without a hitch at the International Space Station, bringing a fresh supply of oxygen and equipment to the six-member crew.
Discovery of structure of radio source from a pulsar orbiting a massive star
For the first time the morphology of an extended radio source in a binary system formed of a pulsar and a massive star has been determined. In a few such...
China to attempt first space rendezvous
China will attempt its first space docking between two unmanned vehicles this year, the first step in efforts to build a Chinese space station, a senior official said Friday.