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Astronomers Peer Into The 'Amniotic Sac' Of A Planet-Birthing Star
Astronomers have successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time. In a...
Mindy Kaling says she'd make out with Donald Trump
Marilyn MalaraNEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Comedian Mindy Kaling says she's not bothered by the idea of making out with Donald Trump "for a few hours."
An Ocean Flows Under Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus
A slight wobble in the orbit of Saturn's moon Enceladus can only be explained by a global ocean beneath its crust.
North Korea slams U.S., South Korea, defends 'incontestable' right to make weapons
Elizabeth ShimSEOUL, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- North Korea defended its plans for satellite launches and nuclear weapons development, and said the United States is the real source of provocation.
Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates in 12 innings
The Sports Xchange PITTSBURGH -- Joe Maddon believes his young Chicago Cubs showed their postseason worthiness Wednesday night.
Netanyahu to visit Putin next week
Ed AdamczykJERUSALEM, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit Moscow next week to discuss Russian military aid and troop deployments to Syria.
Double whammy: 2 meteors hit ancient Earth at the same time
Researchers in Sweden found craters 10 miles apart where a pair of meteors landed simultaneously, 460 million years ago
The moons of Jupiter
Jupiter was appropriately named by the Romans, who chose to name it after the king of the gods. In addition to being the largest planet in our Solar System –...
Virginia Tech Engineer Receives Immediate Support to Probe Water Woes in Flint, Michigan
A Virginia Tech engineer is traveling to Flint, Michigan, this week as part of a National Science Foundation-funded $50,000 one-year study into a "perfect storm" of water distribution system corrosion...
Austria deploying troops, sets border controls in reaction to German controls
Andrew V. PestanoVIENNA, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Austria is deploying troops and imposing border controls amid the migrant crisis as the European Union is scheduled to discuss the issue on...
Moon’s crust as fractured as can be
Scientists believe that about 4 billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, the moon took a severe beating, as an army of asteroids pelted its surface,...
Air India grounds 130 flight attendants because of weight
Tomas MonzonNEW DELHI, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Following a warning in 2014, Air India will move 130 employees out of cabin crew duty because their body mass index is above...
The Weeknd supports girlfriend Bella Hadid at NYFW
Annie MartinNEW YORK, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The Weeknd showed up hand-in-hand with new girlfriend Bella Hadid to the Alexander Wang show, and watched the model walk the runway for...
Rocky planets may be habitable depending on their 'air conditioning system'
The quest for potentially habitable planets is often interpreted as the search for an Earth twin. And yet, some rocky planets outside our Solar System may in fact be more...
A2100 satellite is now reprogrammable in-flight
Saudi Arabia's newest communications satellite, the Lockheed Martin-built Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, will not only be one of the most powerful ever built, it will be among the most agile thanks to new...
How solar tech can help California's drought
In the midst of California's ongoing drought, researchers at the University of California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute (UC Solar) at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help...
The Lords of the Rings among centaurs
(Phys.org)—Chariklo, the largest known centaur object, orbiting in a region between Saturn and Uranus, is a very intriguing celestial body that surprised astronomers last year. This remote minor planet has...
Live from Krakow
Will CarbonSat or FLEX be ESA’s next Earth Explorer mission? Follow discussions at the User Consultation Meeting on 15–16 September
Shocks in a distant gamma-ray burst
Gamma ray bursts (GRBs)—flashes of high-energy light occur about once a day, randomly, from around the sky—are the brightest events in the known universe. While a burst is underway, it...
Image: Hubble sees a galactic sunflower
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a...
ESA video: Soyuz TMA-16M landing
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady Padalka and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov landed 12 September at 00:51 GMT (02:51 CEST ) in the steppe of Kazakhstan, marking the...
VIDEO: Buzz Aldrin: We will occupy Mars
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin thinks humans can not only land on Mars, but also colonise the red planet.
Best Space Photos of the Week – Sept. 12, 2015
From breathtaking photos of Pluto's diverse landscape just beamed back to Earth by NASA's New Horizons probe to an amazing view of the Interntational Space Station crossing the face of...
Fitness programs help campus rabbis shape up
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- As an Orthodox Jew, Rabbi Moshe Gray may not need a cross. But CrossFit? That's another story....
Half Life Of Stories On Science 2.0
Taking Andy Warhol's quip, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes," (which seems, like so many quotations, to have been stolen or mis-attributed) as a point of...
Gov. Jerry Brown sends climate change report to presidential candidate Ben Carson
Tomas MonzonSACRAMENTO, Fla., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown sent Ben Carson a copy of the latest U.N. IPCC report after the visiting Republican presidential hopeful denied climate...
Ridley Scott's 'The Martian' takes off in Toronto
Matt Damon got to relive his childhood fantasies of being an astronaut in Ridley Scott's 3D space epic "The Martian," where he portrays a character left for dead on the...
In the Solar System: Water, Water Everywhere, But Where to Drink?
Science fiction movies about aliens threatening the Earth routinely ascribe them the motive of coming here to steal our resources, most often our water.