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Russia says delayed space flight on for April 5
Russia said Friday it had solved the problem that caused it to delay the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station and would proceed with the mission on...
A remote-controlled experiment on the International Space Station - video
An experiment to investigate how fluids behave in space is being controlled and monitored by scientists back on Earth in Bremen, GermanyAndy Duckworth
New study gives dark energy a boost
Measurements provide further evidence for accelerating expansion of universe
U.S. to deploy ground monitoring equipment in Japan: Chu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is trying to deploy equipment in Japan that can detect radiation exposure at the ground level, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress on...
NASA satellite sees area affected by Japan tsunami
A new before-and-after image pair from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a region of Japan's northeastern coast, northeast of the...
World's First Space Gas Station for Satellites to Launch in 2015
Two satellite companies have announced a new deal to launch the first spacecraft to refuel other satellites in orbit.
Astronomers detect 'room temperature' star
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 14 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf star that contradicts the perception of all stars being hot -- this one is, in...
Physicist’s Jailing Is Veiled in Mystery
More than 500 days after Adlène Hicheur, a French-Algerian scientist, was detained by the French authorities, no charges have been brought.
NHL GMs decide on new concussion protocol
The NHL is taking new steps to try and combat the concussion issue. After the first day of GM meetings, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced details of a new concussion...
Russian rocket ride: $63 million per US astronaut
(AP) -- The Russians are hiking the price of rocket rides again for U.S. astronauts - to nearly $63 million.
TRMM maps flooding along US East Coast from massive storm
The massive rain storm that stretched from New York to Florida last week dropped some record rainfall and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured that rainfall from space....
Astronaut Garrett Reisman Quits NASA to Join Private Spaceship Builder
Astronaut Garrett Reisman has quit NASA to join up-and-coming private space company SpaceX.
Nanorods developed in UC Riverside lab could greatly improve visual display of information
Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have developed tiny, nanoscale-size rods of iron oxide particles in the lab that respond to an external magnetic field in a way that...
African Astronomers Find New Use for Discarded Satellite Dishes
A radioastronomer's global map of instruments that work together to survey the heavens would...
Star-hungry black hole could blow galactic 'bubbles'
Is gamma-ray emission linked to star capture?
Book Illuminates Life, Legacy of Physicist Feynman
In the new scientific biography, "Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science," due out March 21, Arizona State University professor Lawrence Krauss depicts the Nobel Prize winning Feynman as more...
February exciting month for Kepler team
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Kepler project team had an exciting month in February. Besides recovering the spacecraft from a Safe Mode event, the team released Keplers Quarter 2 science data to the public...
FASTSAT Mission Update
The FASTSat Mini-Me and PISA instruments are successfully performing science observations as the TTI instrument continues sensor optimization.
Starwatch: The awakening Sun
With less than a week to go until the Sun crosses northwards over the equator at the vernal equinox, it is showing real signs of rebirth in another respect. Solar activity, as...
News in Brief: Earth/Environment
Dangerous levels of cadmium in children's jewelry, plus a lost satellite and 'cloudshine' in this week's news
'Darmstadt, wir haben ein problem': Inside ESOC, the European space operations centre - video
A guided tour of the control room at the European Space Agency's operations centre in Darmstadt, GermanyAndy Duckworth
Video: Almanac: The planet Neptune and former planet Pluto
"Sunday Morning" looks back at two dates in history, in 1781 when the planet Neptune was discovered, and in 1930 when the former planet Pluto was found.
Research in Action: Sun Mystery Explained
Scientists have long wondered why the sun's outer atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
Sergei Korolev: the rocket genius behind Yuri Gagarin
50 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. But the unsung hero of the Soviet Union's triumph was a brilliant scientist who survived Stalin's purgesIt remains the one untarnished...
New U.S. Spy Satellite Blasts Off On Secret Mission
A new U.S. spy satellite has begun a clandestine mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Space Pictures This Week: "Runaway" Star, Shuttle Flyby
A French island becomes a world awash in stars, Discovery streaks over Earth for the last time, and more in the week's best space pictures.
Skywatcher Spots Astronaut Pee in Space
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the shuttle Discovery dumping waste water.
Wisconsin Governor Guts Union Power
Workers' Rights: Chemistry personnel in state university system are among those affected.