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El Faro one of many disasters that challenged investigators
The discovery of the missing freighter El Faro in more than 15,000-feet of water presents a challenge for U.S. Navy crews seeking to retrieve the ship's voyage data recorder, or...
Galileo pair preparing for December launch
The next Galileo launch campaign has begun with the arrival of the latest pair of navigation satellites at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
The Active Sun: US Unveils Plan to Deal with Space Weather
On Thursday (Oct. 29), the White House released two documents that lay out the nation's official plan for mitigating the negative impacts of solar flares and other types of "space...
Signs of acid fog found on Mars
While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog. A planetary scientist has pieced together a compelling...
Northern Light secrets uncovered thanks to social networking tools
Magnetometers have a social network where they talk about the weather, researchers have discovered. The research team used data from over 100 individual magnetometers located at high latitudes in the...
Into how many pieces does a balloon burst?
A moderately inflated rubber balloon pricked with a needle bursts into two large fragments. However, if you inflate it until it bursts spontaneously, you get dozens of shreds, new research...
Saturn's moon Dione
Thanks to the Cassini mission, a great deal has been learned about Saturn's system of moons (aka. the Cronian system) in the past decade. Thanks to the presence of an...
Animal communications, information theory, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
The idea that we can learn about possible extraterrestrial (ETI) communication systems by studying non-human communications on Earth is similar to the astrobiological idea that one might learn more about...
Astrosat's Soft X-ray Telescope sees first light
The Soft X-ray focusing Telescope (SXT) onboard Astrosat, India's first satellite dedicated to astronomical observations, saw its first light from an astronomical source on Oct. 26, 2015, after the camera...
2 degrees, pilot's license, NASA job ... at 17 years old
Moshe Kai Cavalin got a community college degree at 11, and has not stopped his prodigious path since, which also includes published books
Image: Hubble captures DI Cha star system
Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The star system is named DI Cha, and...
Image: Snowing in space?
The flurry of what looks like snow in this video is actually a barrage of energetic particles. This is what's known as a solar radiation storm, hitting an instrument onboard...
Head of Kremlin staff says cosmodrome is example of corruption: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome is an "egregious" example of corruption, the head of the Kremlin administration Sergei Ivanov said on Monday, the RIA news agency reported.
'The Martian' wins scary Halloween weekend box office
Shawn PriceLOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The Martian won the worst box office weekend of the year for Hollywood.
New Orleans Saints snag shootout against New York Giants
By Peter Finney Jr., The Sports Xchange In a game in which quarterbacks Drew Brees and Eli Manning combined for a record 13 touchdown passes, Kai Forbath kicked a 50-yard...
Report: Patrick Kane unlikely to face criminal charges
The Sports Xchange Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane is not expected to face criminal charges from allegations that he raped a woman, three sources told the Buffalo News.
Jamie Chung marries Bryan Greenberg in Santa Monica
Karen ButlerSANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Actress Jamie Chung married actor Bryan Greenberg at El Capitan Canyon in Santa Barbara this weekend.
Why Do Sand Dune Avalanches Boom, Burp and Sing?
Avalanching dunes can create their own music, when toppling sand erupts first with staccato burps and then with monotone "singing" booms. These tunes have long intrigued scientists, and now a...
Best Night Sky Events of November 2015 (Stargazing Maps)
See what's up in the night sky for November 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.
Month In Space: Far-Out Moons and Martian Dunes
Space records were broken this month while 'massive' Hurricane Patricia crossed the Atlantic and a dazzling aurora loomed over Earth.
Spooky Skyscape | Space Wallpaper
Ripples of green hover over the rocky horizon in this bone-chilling image of an aurora.
Artificial Intelligence Finds Messy Galaxies
An astrophysics student at The Australian National University (ANU) has turned to artificial intelligence to help her to see into the hearts of galaxies. PhD student Elise Hampton was inspired...
Clinton interrupted by Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta
Brooks HaysATLANTA, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton's trip to Clark Atlanta, a historically black college, was marked by applause and protest.
NASA Spacecraft takes GPS to New Heights
NASA's MMS spacecraft are flying around Earth in a precise formation made possible by an out-of-this-world system of GPS navigators.
Worlds within Worlds: Hubble Peels … f a Warm Neptune
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an immense cloud of hydrogen evaporating from a Neptune-sized planet named GJ 436b. The planet’s atmosphere is evaporating because of extreme irradiation...
Cyclone Chapala, Gathering Strength, Heads Toward Oman and Yemen
The system packed sustained winds of almost 150 miles per hour and threatened to bring dangerous torrential rains to two of the most arid countries in the world.
Brazil, land of water, goes thirsty
The sign—"risk of drowning"—outside one of Rio de Janeiro's freshwater reservoirs looks like a joke: there's no water here left to drown in.
Finding new worlds with a play of light and shadow
Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused...