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Businessman Dennis Tito Financing Manned Mission to Mars
Plans are afoot to send two people on a trip to Mars and back in 501 days.
Turbulence Ahead for Weather Satellites
Some next-generation weather satellites may not launch in time to replace aging instruments now in orbit, researchers say.
Watch: How to make a peanut butter sandwich in space
Astronaut Chris Hadfield is your cosmic chef in a video that proves everything is more interesting In Space!
Scientists Building Asteroid Threat Early-Warning System
Astronomers at the University of Hawaii are building ATLAS to detect incoming space rocks.
Google Doodle celebrates Copernicus, guy who was right about solar system
It's Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th birthday, and Google marked the day with a lovely medieval model of the heliocentric solar system. Why? Because Copernicus was the first person to say what...
The Moon Has Had Water Its Whole Life, New Study Says
Genesis Rock This sample of lunar unbrecciated anorthosite collected during the Apollo 15 mission was thought to be a piece of the moon's primordial crust. In a new paper, researchers report that traces...
Hunt for distant planets intensifie (w/ Video)
(Phys.org)—When astronomers discovered planet GJ 1214b circling a star more than 47 light-years from Earth in 2009, their data presented two possibilities: Either it was a mini-Neptune shrouded in a...
Higgs Boson Particle May Spell Doom For the Universe
The universe may be in for a catastrophic end in billions of years.
Russia asteroid impact: ESA update and assessment
The first firm details of the 15 February asteroid impact in Russia, the largest in more than a century, are becoming clear. ESA is carefully assessing the information as crucial...
Russians Prospect for Meteorite Fragments
On Friday, terror rained from the skies in Siberia, but by Monday, what fell from the sky had turned to gold for people who rushed to retrieve meteorite fragments.
Brecon Beacons win dark sky status
Brecon Beacons National Park has become Wales' first and only the fifth destination in the world to be granted the status of an international dark sky reserve.
VIDEO: Unlocking the secrets of physics
With researchers set to use the Hubble Space telescope to study a force called dark energy, Pallab Ghosh explains why modern physics is set for its next big revolution in...
Paintballs To Deflect The Next Asteroid
The Earth just got a few shots across our bow, what with a giant asteroid hurtling between us and the moon, and another (fortunately much smaller) space rock exploding over...
Bleach could hamper Mars life search
BOSTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A martian meteorite frozen in Antarctic ice hints suggests we may need to dig deeper into Mars to search for traces of past life,...
Russia asks: How do you stop space objects hitting Earth?
By Timothy Heritage and Gabriela Baczynska and Michael Shields
STScI Symposium on April 29-May 2 Explores Habitable Worlds Across Time and Space
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), will host a spring symposium "Habitable Worlds Across Time and Space" on April 29-May. Journalists should contact Cheryl Gundy (gundy@stsci.edu) by April 1, if...
FYI: Do Meteor Showers Ever Run Out of Meteors?
Meteor Madness Adastra/Getty ImagesYes, but it takes a long, long time. Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes through a field of cosmic debris. As that debris crosses into the Earth's atmosphere, each...
Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big News Coming Soon
The first results from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station are expected in about two weeks.
Possible discovery of dark matter to be announced soon
Mysterious and not yet proven to exist, scientists are teasing a possible discovery of dark matter
International space station plays host to innovative infectious disease research
Performing sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is...
Simulation of a double impact reveals the heart of an asteroid
Models boost the significance of image and measurement data from space missions and help to understand our solar system. A simulation of a double impact that occurred on the proto-planet...
5 movies where space rocks threaten Earth
The meteor that shot through the Russian sky at hypersonic speed Friday created images that seemed like something out of a high-tech special effects department. While its damage was real,...
Colorado State University scientists identify visible, infrared imagery left by meteor across Russia
Visible and infrared imagery of the meteor that made a fiery entry into the Earth's atmosphere over the Ural Mountains of Russia has been captured by Colorado State University scientists.
The heat is on
(Phys.org)—Physicists are getting warmer in the hunt for universal truths, thanks to a breakthrough by a team at the University of St Andrews.
Dismissed as Doomsayers, Advocates for Meteor Detection Feel Vindicated
The meteor that rattled Siberia on Friday brought new life to efforts to deploy adequate asteroid detection tools.
Best Space Photos of the Week - Feb. 17, 2013
From a football-field sized meteor in Russia to the origin of cosmic rays, don't miss these amazing space pictures.
Platelet Activating Factor pivotal in anaphylactic shock
A new study published in 2013 has suggested that Platelet Activating Factor (PAF) to have a crucial role in anaphylactic shock, and could be used as a drug target. Anaphylactic...
Video: Hunting missiles from outer space
The meteor that exploded over Russia last week is a very rare occurrence. However, meteorites crash into the Earth every year. Rita Braver reports on scientists hunting for rocks from...