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Wade Phillips unleashed Denver Broncos' defensive potential
By Ira Miller, The Sports Xchange SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A year ago, Wade Phillips was sitting on his couch watching Super Bowl XLIX.
NASA Provides a Look at Post-Blizzard Snowfall and Winds
NASA satellites obtained a number of different views of the great winter storm that left many snowfall records from Virginia to New York City from January 22 to 24, 2016....
LISA Pathfinder arrives at its worksite
After a six-week journey, LISA Pathfinder arrived at its destination today, an orbit around a point of balance in space where it will soon start testing technologies crucial for exploring...
Mission Accomplished! 747-Space Shuttle Exhibit Launches in Houston
Officials at Space Center Houston hailed the opening of Independence Plaza on Jan. 23, a $12 million attraction showcasing NASA's first space shuttle-carrying jumbo jet topped by a full-size mockup...
Blue Origin become first to relaunch and land used rocket
Daniel UriaVAN HORN , Texas, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Blue Origin relaunched its New Shepard rocket after successfully landing it in November.
Astronaut Scott Kelly plays ping pong with water
Daniel UriaWASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- United States astronaut Scott Kelly had some fun with gravity as he demonstrated how to play ping pong with water on the International Space...
Bad Omen: How Full Moon Could Worsen Looming Storm Jonas
Can a full moon make a winter storm even worse? Yes, scientists say. Here's how.
Watch SpaceX Dragon Crew Capsule Fire Up in Hover Test
Crew capsules of the future may skip the parachute and opt for a powered, helicopter-like descent, if SpaceX's new tests are any indication.
'Planet 9' hasn't been spotted yet, but check out these 9 space objects
Planet 9, a possible new addition to the solar system, hasn't been spotted yet and it could take years for researchers scouring the skies with telescopes to document it. In...
New gravity dataset will help unveil the Antarctic continent
A unique dataset of gravity anomalies has been released for Antarctica representing a significant step forward in the investigation of the largest ice-covered continent on Earth.
How Holograms Could Aid Alien Life Hunt
Scientists have detected microbes in Greenland sea ice using a specially built digital holographic microscope, suggesting that the instrument could have similar success on icy moons in the outer solar...
Launch timelapse
A timelapse of last month's Principia launch to the Internaional Space Station with ESA astronaut Tim Peake, in 4K ultra-high definition
Calgary man criminally charged for flying drone near airport
A man who flew a drone too close to the flight path of aircraft at Calgary's airport has been criminally charged, in what police believe is a first for the...
Video: SDO sees tangled connections
These images from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory, or SDO, show magnetically active regions on the sun on Jan. 8-9, 2016. When such regions are close-set, magnetic field lines create a...
Week’s Best Space Pictures: Pluto’s Possible Ice Volcano
Saturn’s moons size each other up, and a messy galaxy shines a mysterious X-ray beacon.
Mars rover Curiosity tastes scooped, sieved sand
At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on Mars.
Colours of Persia
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of Bahrain, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
Adele's 'Hello' fastest to reach 1 billion views on YouTube
Sorry, Psy. Adele has outpaced the South Korean pop star on the race to 1 billion views on YouTube.
Phoenix Suns sign F Cory Jefferson to 10-day contract
The Sports Xchange The Phoenix Suns signed forward Cory Jefferson to a 10-day contract, the team announced Thursday.
Are gravitational waves being 'redshifted' away by the cosmological constant?
Dark energy may have a measurable effect on future observations made by LISA or the Einstein Telescope
Five brightest planets gather in pre-dawn sky for heavenly show
Our five closest planetary neighbors are putting on a heavenly show.
Dark 'noodles' may lurk in the Milky Way
Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our Galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. Astronomers say the...
Tom Cruise to star in 'The Mummy' remake
Annie MartinLOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Tom Cruise is set to star with "Kingsman: The Secret Service" actress Sofia Boutella in a remake of "The Mummy" in 2017.
Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer to appear on James Burrows special
Karen ButlerLOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The stars of several of television's most famous comedy series are to participate in the two-hour special "Must See TV: A Tribute to...
[Report] Real-time detection of an extreme scattering event: Constraints on Galactic plasma lenses
Extreme scattering events (ESEs) are distinctive fluctuations in the brightness of astronomical radio sources caused by occulting plasma lenses in the interstellar medium. The inferred plasma pressures of the lenses...
Jason-3 delivers first data, products four days after launch
Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason-3 high-precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near-real time, report engineers.
Sculpture Puts You In Orbit With Satellites
Want to hear the rush of a satellite going by? Step inside this sound-filled interactive sculpture.
WFIRST: Work On NASA's 'Spy Telescope' Begins
NASA will begin work on the next big space telescope after the James Webb Space Telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, which will be constructed from a refurbished military...