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Let's Name Pluto Moons 'Vulcan' and 'Romulus,' William Shatner Says
The Star Trek actor needs your help to name one of Pluto's moons "Vulcan."
NASA provides satellite views of nor'easter lifespan
NASA and NOAA satellites have provided animations and images of the coupling of two low pressure areas that created the now historic winter-time nor'easter that brought more than two feet...
Refueling in Space Could Spur Commercialization | Video
NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) passes another key on-orbit test. NASA hopes that this technology will spring for a new industry of on-orbit satellite life extension. And the technique could...
NASA astroid-sampling mission to help gauge impact threat
Mission to launch in 2016 will help space agency understand asteroids like never before
Robotic Russian Supply Ship Docks With Space Station
The unmanned Progress 50 spacecraft arrived at the orbiting lab just three hours after blasting off.
'Earth from Space': See the Planet Like Never Before
Watch as satellites reveal how hurricanes form and how dust fertilizes the Amazon.
Sun Unleashes Solar Eruption at Earth During Long Flare
A solar eruption aimed at Earth on Feb. 9, could spark auroras later this week.
Starz renews deal to get Sony movies through 2021
(AP)—Premium pay TV channel Starz has renewed its agreement to carry movies from Sony Pictures through films hitting theaters in 2021. The deal comes two months after Netflix snatched future...
Are You There, E.T.? SETI Finds No Alien Signals from Exoplanets
Fewer than one in a million star systems in the Milky Way likely host intelligent life.
Global climatology of explosive cyclones
Explosive cyclones, which have rapidly intensifying winds and heavy rain, can seriously threaten life and property.
Space race in Asia heating up
China, Iran, India, and North and South Korea are all locked in a contest to reach the cosmos
A cosmic snake for Chinese New Year
Gong Hey Fat Choy! Today marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year and what better way to celebrate the Year of the Black Snake than with a look at...
Skateboarders good for the environment, study says
A recent study in Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability suggests that skateboarders in Chicago perform in and transform urban spaces by exploring different terrains and developing...
A fascinating 'new' planet
NASA has recently discovered a very strange planet. Its days are twice as long as its years. It has a tail like a comet. It is hot enough to melt lead,...
How big is the universe … compared with a grain of sand? - video
'You'll never get your head around how big the universe is,' warns astronomer Pete Edwards of the University of Durham in this film about measuring astronomical distances
Hubble Catches a Side-on Spiral Streak
(Phys.org)—This thin, glittering streak of stars is the spiral galaxy ESO 121-6, which lies in the southern constellation of Pictor (The Painter's Easel). Viewed almost exactly side-on, the intricate structure...
Best Space Photos of the Week - Feb. 10, 2013
From a comet that will barely miss crashing into Earth to a hungry black hole, don't miss these amazing space pictures.
NASA's MAVEN mission completes assembly, begins environmental testing
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next mission to...
Point and shoot camera produces 3-D models
(Phys.org)—The Kickstarter campaign launched by Lynx Laboratories, from Austin, Texas, is off to a swift-kick start. Obviously, visitors to their page like what they promise. With their goal of $50,000,...
Boeing sends 787 on test flight from Seattle
A Boeing 787 is in the air on a test flight, the first since the new airliner was grounded three weeks ago because of a battery fire.
Birth of Monster Blizzard Seen from Space (Video)
The video shows the genesis of snowstorm Nemo was captured over two days by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.
Last Moonwalker Calls Space Station, Compares Cosmic Elbow Room
Apollo 17 moonwalker Eugene Cernan says he'd love to have had a spaceship the size of the International Space Station.
A possible naked-eye comet in March
Far beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, where the sun is a pinprick of light not much brighter than other stars, a vast swarm of icy bodies circles the...
Doubt cast on Sir Bernard Lovell's 'brainwashing'
In this month's edition of Physics World, science writer Richard Corfield casts doubt on the alleged "brainwashing" of the late British astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell by the Soviets at the...
French rocket launches two satellites
KOUROU, French Guiana, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- French space company Ariancespace says it successfully launched two telecommunications satellites, one for Spain and one for Azerbaijan, from French Guiana.
Cosmic Mystery: Missing Dwarf Galaxies | Video
For 20 years, computer models have been telling astrophysicists there should be many more dwarf galaxies. New research shows the dwarfs are whipped around so fast by gravity that their...
Astronaut and Musician Perform 1st Original Duet from Space and Earth
The original song was a collaboration between the astronaut and the musician.
Super-TIGER lying low for the Southern Hemisphere winter
(Phys.org)—Late Friday, Feb. 2, an overcast day in St. Louis, the twitter feed for the Super-TIGER cosmic ray experiment burst into life, as the Super-TIGER team received word that NASA's...