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NASA sees post-Patricia moisture, winds stalking the Mid-Atlantic
The remnant moisture from what was once Hurricane Patricia and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico were being transported north by a trough of low pressure over Wisconsin. The clouds...
'Death Star' Vaporizes Its Own Planet: 1st Evidence
The planet-destroying Death Star from "Star Wars" may be fictional, but a star at the end of its life and only a bit bigger than Earth could be its real-world...
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completes assembly stage, begins environmental testing
NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has begun environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado. OSIRIS-REx, led by the University of Arizona,...
NASA calls for American industry ideas on ARM spacecraft development
NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has issued a call to American industry for innovative ideas on how the agency could obtain a core advanced solar electric...
Mexico City
Earth observation image of the week: a natural-colour Sentinel-2A image of Mexico City, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
Interstellar Dust on the Galaxy's Magnetic Field | Space Wallpaper
This visualization of data from ESA's Planck satellite, reminiscent of the soft tones and delicate quality of an artist's painted masterpiece, presents a view of interstellar dust interacting with the...
Brent Seabrook, Patrick Kane lead Chicago Blackhawks past Florida Panthers
By Tom Musick, The Sports Xchange CHICAGO -- Defenseman Brent Seabrook spotted Chicago Blackhawks right winger Patrick Kane sprinting up the left side of the ice and seeking a stretch...
3-D map of the brain
Alessandra Angelucci (right), a University of Utah professor of ophthalmology and visual science, and University of Utah computer science professor Valerio Pascucci stand in front of a computer model ...
Shining More Light on Solar Panels
A better understanding of how light reflects off different surfaces has improved action movies, videogames and now solar panels. A team from Michigan Technological University and Queen's University have found...
NASA Teleconference to Preview Historic Flyby of Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will sample an extraterrestrial ocean next week when it flies directly through a plume of icy spray from Enceladus. A news telecon on Monday, Oct. 26, will...
Hubble spies Big Bang frontiers
Observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million...
Technology tackles space junk
Orbital debris can cause problems for space travel and satellites, so scientists have banded together to come up with innovative solutions, from laser cannons to proactive removal.
SETI Institute undertakes search for alien signal from Kepler Star KIC 8462852
"We either caught something shortly after an event like two planets crashing together or alien intelligence," said Dr. Gerald Harp, senior scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California,...
Image: Kilimanjaro captured by Proba-V
A view of the glacier atop Africa's highest peak, as observed by ESA's Proba-V minisatellite.
Happy #Arachtober! Spiders Take Over the Web for Halloween
Photographers and researchers from around the world are teaming up to share images of everyone's favorite Halloween mascots — spiders.
Landing site recommended for ExoMars 2018
Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission.
Navigation winners
Starting with 515 ideas from 40 countries in this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition, 37 winners were announced in Berlin
Black Hole ASASSN-14li Is Shredding A Star To Pieces
When a star comes too close to a black hole, the intense gravity of the black hole results in tidal forces that can rip the star apart. In these events,...
SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Receives Fermi Award at White House
President Obama welcomed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Claudio Pellegrini into the Oval Office Tuesday morning as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the highest honors the U.S....
Brilliant Venus to Join Jupiter and Mars in Pre-Dawn Sky Monday: How To See It
Venus has been dominating the morning sky for the past two months, and Monday (Oct. 26), it will form a vivid tableau with Jupiter and Mars as it reaches its...
Stars locked in potentially fatal cosmic "kiss"
The largest, hottest double star ever found could be on its way to a stellar merger or explosive mutual demise
TeleCommunications Systems receives another $5 million for satellite systems sustainment
Ryan MaassANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. has received $5 million in funding from the U.S. Army to sustain deployable satellite systems.
Magneticum Pathfinder: Evolution of the universe in unmatched precision
The world's most elaborate cosmological simulation of the evolution of our universe was recently completed by astrophysicists. For the first time, a hydrodynamic cosmological simulation is large enough to be...
Scientists give 'outlaw' particles less room to hide
Studying the highest-energy particles in the cosmos provides scientists with a way to test how well they understand the cutting edge of physics. Recently, scientists using a giant particle detector...
Zombie Star Caught Feasting On Asteroids
Astronomers suspected that white dwarf stars dine on huge chunks of rock—new observations provide the smoking gun.
Vice goes dark, protests Turkey reporter detention
Vice Media's website went dark Wednesday to protest the detention in Turkey of one of its journalists reporting on anti-government unrest in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.
GM and LG team up to make Chevrolet Bolt EV
Tomas MonzonSEOUL, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- General Motors and LG Electronics announced a partnership to build the new Chevrolet Bolt EV that will travel more than 200 miles for a...
This Binary Star Is A Super Hot Mess | Video
160,000 light years away, the Tarantula Nebula houses many young, hot stars. But the weirdest is probably the "over-contact" binary named VFTS 352 whose two huge, hot surfaces are touching...