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Voyager data show solar system edge active
CHICAGO, June 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency's Voyager probes, traveling through space since 1977, indicate the fringe of the solar system is awash with activity, scientists said.
Video: NASA releases video of solar flare
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of a giant solar flare that erupted from the sun. Jeff Glor reports.
Possible Sighting of Dark Matter Lights Up Physics Community
Dark Matter Detector Juan Collar, associate professor in physics at the University of Chicago, holds one of the early germanium detector prototypes similar to the one being used in the Coherent Germanium Neutrino...
Springtime at Mars' south pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked to the...
Satellite spots potential Pacific storm
GREENBELT, Md., June 6 (UPI) -- NASA says a satellite view of a low pressure system in the Eastern Pacific shows it likely will become the region's first tropical...
WIMPs Result Sheds Some Light On Dark Matter?
The expansion of the universe should slow as time marches on, some even conjectured it would slow and then collapse again - that's what all that mass and its gravity...
A planet going the wrong way
(PhysOrg.com) -- All planets move around their stars in the same direction as the star spinsat least thats what we thought. But now Australian National University astronomer Dr. Daniel Bayliss...
China row over Einstein display
A Swiss museum's exhibition in Shanghai about the scientist Albert Einstein is cancelled after Shanghai officials try to merge it with a Confucius display.
Bright sparks among 'Asia's Nobel Prize' winners
Two scientists who are probing the brightest flashes in the universe were Tuesday named among the winners of the Shaw Prize, the $1 million award known as the Nobel Prize...
Million Dollar Prizes to Go to Astrophysicists, Immunologists, and Geometricians
Pinpointing the origins of gamma-ray bursts, determining the workings of innate immunity, and extending...
Astronaut Makes U2 Concert Appearance
NASA astronaut Mark Kelly made an appearance at a U2 concert on June 5 via a pre-recorded message he sent from space during the shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission.
President Obama Meets U.S. Laureates of 2010 Kavli Prizes
At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions...
Australia's military loses its UFO X-Files: report
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Australia's military has lost its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
Did a Wandering Jupiter Stunt Growth of Mars?
Early movements of the planet Jupiter could explain the perplexing fact that Mars is smaller than it should be.
For Mars rovers, a friendly rivalry
NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, will be deployed to the planet to study rocks that may shed light on whether life existed there. But its cousin Opportunity, which is already...
In 'First Life,' Biochemist David Deamer Explores How Life Began
In his new book, 'First Life,' biochemist David Deamer presents an engaging and accessible overview of research into life's beginnings and a personal history of his work in this field.
Shooting for the Stars
University of Delaware astronomer Judi Provencal has been busy manning the command center for a star watch of epic proportions, the latest observing run of the Whole Earth Telescope (WET)....
Greater cancer detection is possible with 4-D PET image reconstruction
A study introduced at SNM's 58th Annual Meeting is advancing a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method that uses new 4D image reconstruction to achieve the highest diagnostic capability for...
First-of-its-kind fluorescence map offers a new view of the world's land plants
Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have produced groundbreaking global maps of land plant fluorescence, a difficult-to-detect reddish glow that leaves emit as a byproduct of photosynthesis. While researchers...
Did an Amateur Astronomer Spot a Secret Mars Base?
An "armchair astronaut" is claiming to have found a secret space station on Mars, but experts say it's just a cosmic ray artifact.
Scanning the skies for debris hazards
Today, orbiting satellites are threatened by over 700 000 pieces of debris. Avoiding them requires knowing where they are, and that means surveillance with radar and telescopes. The European Space...
SPACE.com Launches Facebook Sweepstakes Offering Dozens of Prizes
Enter to win telescopes, NASA bomber jackets and SPACE.com T-shirts.
Lack of sunspots may have aided 'little ice age'
A dearth of bright spots on the sun might have contributed to a frigid period known as the "little ice age" in the middle of the past millennium, researchers suggest.
Are Extra-Hot Summers Here to Stay?
The AC may become more a necessity if things heat up as scientists predict.
Dim Sun Helped Send Earth into Little Ice Age, Study Suggests
The world was plunged into a cold spell hundreds of years ago, but what was the cause?
India 'fixated on collaboration with the North'
Cheap Brazilian diagnostics are not reaching India, which prefers to work with Northern nations, a study says.
Five steps toward future exploration
The NASA Astrobiology Science & Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program has announced a set of new projects to develop and test technologies that will enable the astrobiological exploration of...
Nothing, not anything and zero
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space and time are inextricably linked, which is why astrophysicists speak of them in the same breath.