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NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
More than 78,000 people apply for one-way trip to Mars
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 11 (UPI) -- More than 78,000 people have applied for a chance to go on a one-way trip to create a permanent community on the planet...
The Week In Numbers: The Brightest Explosion Ever, A Ticket To The Moon, And More
Gamma-ray Burst (Artist's Conception) Wikimedia Commons 3.6 billion light-years: the distance from Earth of a recently observed gamma-ray burst, the brightest explosion NASA scientists have ever seen $25,000: the fine internet providers face...
Giant Particle Storage Ring Set for 3,200-Mile Cruise
The New York-built ring is being sent to Illinois to capture ultra-rare particles.
Whoops: Moon Dust From Apollo 11 Lost In Storage For Years
Moon Dust Marilee Bailey The dust was rediscovered last month in a UC Berkeley warehouse. You'd think moon dust would be something people would keep an eye on since, you know, you...
Will Culture Clash Cloud Hawaiian Telescope? Op-Ed
Can Thirty Meter Telescope construction build common ground?
Congress to Discuss Search for 'Alien Earths' Today
Congress wants an update on the search for planets like our own.
Big, better, best? The Manchester Congress takes history of science to the next level
The largest ever gathering of historians of science, technology and medicine has ambitions to get even bigger through social mediaBack in November I blogged about the unique gathering that will be taking place...
Thermal shield testing on Webb's MIRI
(Phys.org) —NASA engineer Acey Herrera recently checked out copper test wires inside the thermal shield of the Mid-Infrared Instrument, known as MIRI, that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space...
Galactic knee and extragalactic ankle
It is obvious from the data of the KASCADE-Grande experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that the so-called "knee" of the cosmic rays, a bend in the energy...
Michigan Gov. ok bill that could allow wolf hunt
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill Wednesday that clears the way to schedule Michigan's first gray wolf hunting season since the resurgent predator, reviled by some as a menace to...
Meteor wonder spotted in night sky
A large meteor is spotted travelling across the night sky by people in many parts of England and Wales.
Weather forecasts on Mars
(Phys.org) —In the north of the red planet snowfalls occur with great regularity. Expeditions of Mars rovers into this region could therefore be easily planned.
Farming on Mars: NASA Ponders Food Supply for 2030s Mission
Early Mars settlers will have a lot of challenges to overcome in growing food on Mars.
Found: Proof That Seafloor Bacteria Ate Radioactive Supernova Dust
Ka-boom! The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star that blew up about 300 years ago. NASA Microbes on the ocean bottom ate iron forged in the heart of a dying star The...
Fruit of their labor: Pear-shaped nuclei found
By Tia GhoseLiveScienceA few heavy, unstable atoms have pear-shaped nuclei, research suggests.The lopsided nuclei, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, could be good candidates for researchers looking for new types of...
Mexico's Large Millimeter Telescope Opens for Business
Astronomers ready to inspect some of the universe's most obscure regions
'Space warps' project needs your help
(Phys.org) —Astronomers are asking volunteers to help them search for "space warps." More commonly known as "gravitational lenses," these are rare systems with very massive galaxies or clusters of galaxies...
Skrillex Has Close Encounter with NASA's Johnson Space Center
The musical sensation, Skrillex spent a day hobnobbing with astronauts at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Astronomers Discover Surprising Clutch of Hydrogen Clouds Lurking Among Our Galactic Neighbors
In a dark, starless patch of intergalactic space, astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33). The researchers speculate...
How Exoplanet Atmosphere Density Can Change Odds of Alien Life
A recent study explores how atmospheric pressure on Earth-like worlds could impact their ability to support liquid water.
Cast of Broadway 'Matilda' chat with an astronaut
NEW YORK (AP) -- The cast members of the Tony Award-nominated "Matilda" are arguably all stars. This week, they chatted with a man closer to the...
Julie Payette on Hollywood's space stories
The Canadian astronaut, in Toronto to watch and discuss the film Apollo 13, talks to CBC about realism in space movies, laughing off Hollywood implausibility and which spacecraft she'd really...
50-Year-Old Fluoride Mystery Closer to Being Solved
Why fluoride is good for teeth has been a mystery, but a new study sheds some light on the topic.
What left these spooky trails in the sky?
Ball lightning? Spectral orbs? Swamp gas? Early this morning, May 7, these eerie glowing trails were seen in the sky above the Marshall Islands and were captured on camera by...
Orion Capsule Survives Failed Parachute Test | Video
NASA simulated two types of parachute failures on May 1st, 2013 and was able to still successfully land the Orion spacecraft. A Boeing C-17 military aircraft carried the capsule for...
Space Station Is Big Step Toward Mars, Astronaut Says
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn spoke to a Senate subcommittee about space travel Tuesday (May 7).
Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore
They said when a planetary system forms, the dust that's closer in, on the hot side of that line, melts into rocky minerals, forming solid balls, like Earth and Mars. But...