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VIDEO: Footage of 'missing' space balloon's fall
Scientists in the US who lost a weather balloon carrying a camera sent to the edge of space have found it - and two years on are able to view...
Record-breaking astronauts return to Earth – taking us one step closer to Mars
Expedition 44 to the International Space Station has been successfully completed after three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan. The mission saw a cosmonaut clock up more days in space than any...
Best precision yet for neutrino measurements at Daya Bay
Physicists have announced new findings on the measurements of neutrinos, paving the way forward for further neutrino research, and confirming that the Daya Bay neutrino experiment continues to be one...
Mars panorama from Curiosity shows petrified sand dunes
Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then...
New Antenna Could Give Mars Rovers a Direct Line to Earth
A new antenna design could permit Mars rovers to contact Earth directly, rather than through a spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, and increase total communication time.
Horror flick 'The Visit' earns $1.02M on opening night
Marilyn MalaraWASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Director M. Night Shyamalan's newest film "The Visit" earned over $1 million in ticket sales on opening night Thursday.
Northrop Grumman speeds manufacture of F-35 center fuselages
Richard TomkinsPALMDALE, Calif., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman is speeding up production of center fuselages for F-35 Lightning II fighters.
Are We Alone? Have We Always Been? How Do We Know?
The Lick Observatory's Automated Planet Finder Will Help Out In The Search For Life Laurie Hatch/Berkeley ST. LOUIS — It's the loneliest question in the cosmos: Are we, creative and intelligent and flawed...
Stellar discovery: Massive binary star with unique properties
The first massive binary star, epsilon Lupi, in which both stars have magnetic fields has been discovered by a PhD candidate. A binary star is a star system consisting of...
'Legends of Tomorrow' releases first photo of Hawkman, Hawkgirl
Annie MartinLOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Falk Hentschel and Ciara Renee star as DC Comics superheroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl, respectively, in their first photo for new CW series "Legends...
Michigan lawmakers Courser, Gamrat lose seats after affair, coverup
Amy R. ConnollyLANSING, Mich., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Michigan state Rep. Todd Courser resigned from his seat Friday and Rep. Cindy Gamrat was forced out of office after a sex...
Another U.S. Cracker Planned
Petrochemicals: Formosa eyes a massive new petrochemical complex in Louisiana, as another project advances
How neutrinos saved your teeth from cavities
Much of Earth's fluorine arose from ghostly particles, astronomers say
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake won't seek re-election
Ed AdamczykBALTIMORE, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday she would not seek re-election in 2016.
Advice to students in planetary science: “Start young!”
It took nearly a decade of high-speed travel for NASA’s New Horizons mission to cross the 6 billion miles to the dwarf planet Pluto — and before that, many years of painstaking...
Train Like 'The Martian': Movie's Mars Crew Gear for Sale by Sports Outfitter
There's a new way to look like an astronaut — or at least a fictional future crew member of a Mars-bound mission — thanks to a joint marketing promotion between...
'The Martian' - Controversial Mars' Storm Aborts Mission | Film Clip
The storm that's the catalyst to the story wreaks havoc in this clip form the upcoming movie, premiering in October 2015.
Globally unique double crater identified in Sweden
Researchers have found traces of two major meteorite impacts in Sweden, a twin strike that occurred around 460 million years ago. One is enormous, while the other is a tenth...
Solar wind casts a reddish hue over rocky objects
Ion-accelerator experiment could explain why many asteroids are dark red
Duck-Shaped Comet Confounds Astronomers
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s incongruous chemical composition and shape raise questions about the origin of our solar system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Could we terraform the sun?
In the list of crazy hypothetical ideas, terraforming the sun has to be one of the top 10. So just how would someone go about doing terraforming our sun, a...
New Horizons probes the mystery of Charon's red pole
I'm Carly Howett, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. I've been working on NASA's New Horizons mission since 2012, focusing on an instrument named...
Regional, not global, processes led to huge Martian floods
Gigantic groundwater outbursts created the largest flood channels in the solar system on Mars, 3.2 billion years ago. For many years it was thought that this was caused by the...
Image: Methane painting in the Saturn system
Why does Saturn look like it's been painted with a dark brush in this infrared image, but Dione looks untouched? Perhaps an artist with very specific tastes in palettes?
First Image of Planet Birth Shows Tightly Packed Worlds
An image released last fall sparked debate over whether or not giant planets might form so close to one another. New evidence suggests they can, making this the first image...
Avezzano chequerboard
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of agricultural structures in Italy, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
No Surf, but Maybe Dunes in NASA’s Latest Pluto Photos
Newly released photos suggest that the dwarf planet is covered in dunes, or something that looks like dunes but was created by something other than wind.
Pluto's Chaos Region Explored In New Probe Pics | Video
New imagery from the NASA's New Horizons' mission has been processed. High detailed views of the Sputnik Planum and the Chaos region give you the perspective from 1,100 miles (1,800...