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VIDEO: Giant solar plane lands in Phoenix
A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world has landed in Phoenix Arizona on the first leg of a flight across America.
NASA rover set to study the next frontier ... Greenland
GROVER, the newest rover in the NASA fleet, is staying on earth to examine the two-mile thick ice sheet in Greenland
Prediction: 'Dark Genome' Popularity May Make 'Dark' The Top Science Media Cliche Of 2013
With the popularity of dark matter and dark energy as blanket terms for 'this is weird and we don't understand it but we are studying it, ain't science awesome?' in...
Why Is Our Solar System Such a Cosmic Weirdo?
Super Earths are the most common planets in the solar system, but there are none around the sun.
NASA Wants To Send Your Haiku To Mars
Mount Sharp NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSSubmit your three-line ode to the red planet by July 1! When NASA launches the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft in November, it wants to pack onboard a DVD...
Landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons on Mars
(Phys.org) —Giant landslides, lava flows and tectonic forces are behind this dynamic scene captured recently by ESA's Mars Express of a region scarred by the Solar System's largest volcano, Olympus...
Interstellar Anarchy | Space Wallpaper
The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking space wallpaper of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when...
Bug's view inspires new camera lens
Take a look at these photos to see the lens scientists created for a digital camera that mimics a bug's eye
Billion-year-old meteor could hold clues to Mars life
EAST LANSING, Mich., May 2 (UPI) -- A meteorite found on Earth but formed on Mars more than a billion years ago could reveal if the Red Planet was...
Mars Rover Opportunity Back in Action After Glitch
The nine-year-old robot has resumed science operations on the Red Planet.
Russian Space Junk Almost Destroys NASA Telescope in Orbit
NASA's $690 million Fermi Space Telescope narrowly a head-on crash with a dead Russian satellite on April 3.
Dangerous ‘Sting Jets’ in Storms Explained | Video
Scientists have explained how extratropical cyclones, like the one that battered southern Britain in 1987, can produce violent wind gusts called 'sting jets.'
Success continues as NASA's Orion parachute tests get more difficult
(Phys.org) —A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday.
The sun's coronal mass ejection eruption captured by Nasa - video
A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupts from the edge of the sun on Wednesday in a gigantic rolling wave
Windows 8 market share not measuring up to Windows 7 history
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 (UPI) -- Windows 8 is advancing in the desktop operating system market but has yet to match the milestone Windows 7 had reached at the...
Dot Earth Blog: Observed Earth: A New View of the Sky
A new view of the sky above, created by an artist for whom photographs are just the starting point.
Why Retrieve Samples From Asteroids? | Video
Carl Hergenrother, an observational astronomer from the University of Arizona, and Mike Nolan, a radio astronomer from the Arecibo Observatory, talk about the importance of the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission.
Asteroid Retriever | Space Wallpaper
This fascinating space wallpaper reveals a notional concept of a solar-electric-powered spacecraft, designed to capture a small near-Earth asteroid and relocate it safely close to the Earth-moon system so astronauts...
Astronomers discover new neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way
Tiny, faint Leo P may point to additional galaxies hidden in our corner of the cosmos.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12916
News in Brief: Recreating the eye of the fly
Tiny camera with 180 linked lenses captures panoramic views, could provide surveillance
A better view with adaptive optics into the heart of a globular cluster
(Phys.org) —Astronomers at the Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (SOAR) and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) have demonstrated the significant difference that sharp stellar images can make in our...
Sir Patrick Moore and the case of the missing trousers
Five months after his death, friends remember eccentricity of man who presented The Sky at Night for 55 yearsThe stars came out again for Sir Patrick Moore five months after his death,...
Images 'reveal Nigeria army abuse'
Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were destroyed during a military raid to hunt down militant Islamists in the northern Nigerian town of Baga last month, a rights group says.
Cubesat Sail Deployment Tested On Zero-G Flight | Video
A simple folding trick figured out with a paper and a pencil could be used to unfurl sails from cubesats to detect meteor impacts.
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Faces Serious Health Problems
The prolific instrument may soon lose its ability to lock precisely onto target stars.
Physicists observe new magnetic state of bismuth ferrite
(Phys.org) —Using computer models, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas has collaborated with scientists in the United States and Europe to observe a new magnetic state of bismuth...
'Dancing With the Stars': Andy Dick sent home from emotionally charged ballroom
There really wasn't a dry eye in the house on Tuesday's "Dancing With the Stars" results show. Andy Dick, whose dedication, vulnerability and humor made him a surprising fan favorite,...
Officials study valley fever outbreak at solar power projects
The respiratory illness, caused by breathing fungal spores when desert soil is disturbed, has struck 28 workers at solar facilities being built in San Louis Obispo County. Epidemiologists are investigating...