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Space trio lands in Kazakhstan after bad weather delay
ALMATY (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz capsule made a "bull's eye" landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Saturday, delivering a Russian-American trio from the International Space Station, a day...
Practice makes perfect with Webb telescope mirror placement
(Phys.org) —NASA engineers and scientists have been making practice runs to ensure the placement of primary mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope go perfectly when the flight equipment...
Sun Eruption Supercharges Northern Lights Displays This Weekend
The massive solar eruption on March 15 sent charged particles toward the Earth at 3.2 million mph, NASA says.
Coolest Science Stories of the Week
Mini black holes, images of early birds and talking plants topped our favorite stories this week. Check these out.
A youthful 'star wreck': Youngest-known supernova remnants in our Milky Way galaxy
While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star. Designated G306.3.9 after the coordinates of...
NASA TV News Conference to Discuss Planck Cosmology Findings
NASA will host a news conference at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT) Thursday, March 21, to discuss the first cosmology results from Planck, a European Space Agency mission with...
Distant star baby boom captured by huge new telescope
Astronomers are watching galaxies pop out bundles of newborn stars a whopping 12 billion light years away, thanks to a huge, sensitive new telescope in the Chilean Andes.
A Solid-Gold Miniature Replica Of Apollo 11, Because Why Not?
Apollo 11 In Gold Forbes Galleries via Daily IconPart of an exhibition of jewelry inspired by space happening at the Forbes Galleries. Out of this World! Jewelry in the Space Age, an exhibition...
Life inside the VLT (Very Large Telescope) – video
The VLT, located in Chile, collects and focuses light from distant stars on to a detector, providing vital information about the universe and our place in it
Video: Watch: Comet flies over New York City
The comet PanSTARRS was captured on camera from the roof of the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan, looking across the Hudson River at New Jersey.
Rossby Waves And The Moving 'Hot Spots' Of Jupiter
On Jupiter, cloudless patches are so rare that the larger visible ones get the special name 'hot spots.' How do these clearings form and why they are they only found...
War In Infrared And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Infra Richard Mosse via Co.DesignPlus tiny Star Wars art, a self-healing microchip and more Click here to enter the gallery
Soccer balls in interstellar space
An international team of astronomers led by Masaaki Otsuka (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics or ASIAA) has detected the C60 fullerene (molecules of carbon with 60 atoms arranged...
Large solar proton event explains 774-775 CE carbon-14 increase
Tree ring records indicate that in 774-775 CE, atmospheric carbon-14 levels increased substantially. Researchers suggest that a solar proton event may have been the cause. In solar proton events, large...
10 Amazing Space Discoveries by the Keck Observatory
In the past 20 years, Keck has revealed secrets at the edge of the universe as well as in Earth's own solar system.
Mission to the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah – in pictures
Photojournalist Jim Urquhart documents a team of space scientists who are using the Utah desert as a dry run for future missions to Mars
Drone can 'snatch' object on the fly
PHILADELPHIA, March 14 (UPI) -- Drones may soon go from being eyes in the sky to "look and grab" vehicles using robotic arms to snag objects from the ground...
HR 8799c - Water Signature In Distant Planet Shows Clues To Its Formation
A team of international scientist has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond our solar system. read more
China sets moon mission re-entry test
BEIJING, March 14 (UPI) -- China says it will conduct re-entry tests before 2015 of a spacecraft to be used in a mission to have a lunar explorer probe...
CBS launches app for watching full episodes
CBS Corp. launched an app for iPhones and iPads that allows viewers to watch full episodes of prime-time TV shows like "NCIS," ''Survivor" and "The Good Wife" on the eighth...
Giant Alien Planet in Supersized Solar System May Solve Mystery
The giant alien planet HR 8799c is the size of seven Jupiters, but orbits is in a Pluto-like orbit, scientists say.
Four Giant Exoplanets of Star HR 8799 (Infographic)
Unlike most exoplanet discoveries, the system of HR 8799 can be directly viewed by Earth-based telescopes.
Particles and fields package integrated on upcoming Mars-bound spacecraft
The six science instruments that comprise the Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars have been integrated aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile...
NASA Resumes Production Of Plutonium-238 Space Fuel After 25 Years
Looks Like Jell-O, Tastes Like Space Fuel A pellet of plutonium-238, the fuel source used in much of NASA's space exploration. Los Alamos National Laboratory Our dangerously depleted supply of spacecraft fuel just...
Europe, Russia to launch mission to bring back Martian dirt
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Europe and Russia signed a deal on Thursday for a joint Mars mission to bring back samples of dirt they hope will answer the mystery of whether...
Curiosity Finds A Hospitable Mars
Planetary Science: Rock dust shows watery minerals, neutral pH, and an unusual energy source for microbes
Hovering is a bother for bees: Fast flight is more stable
Bumblebees are much more unstable when they hover than when they fly fast, according to new research published this month in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Astrophysicist calls on colleagues to develop better models to explain quasars
(Phys.org) —Robert Antonucci, professor of astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, suggests in a commentary piece in the journal Nature that he and his colleagues need to develop...