| Man City striker Tevez dating 'Ugly Duckling' Ace striker Carlos Tevez is dating one of the stars of Ugly Betty's Argentinean... | |
| Massive asteroid could hit Earth in 2182 A massive asteroid might crash into Earth in 2182, scientists have... |
| Sydney 'dead running' buses equivalent to making 50 trips to the moon Sydney buses run empty for 19.4 million kilometers a year, which is equivalent to making 50 trips to the... |
| Chinese space junk to buzz past space station An image created by Australia's Electro Optic Systems (EOS) aerospace company shows a view of the Earth from geostationary height depicting swarms of space debris -- approximately 50,000 of the... |
| Molycorp Plunges 14% on First Day After Chopping Rare-Earth IPO July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, declined in its first day of trading after chopping the size of its initial public... |
| Chinese Space Junk May Threaten Space Station Crew NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats... |
| Giant Sand Dunes on Titan Shaped by Backward Winds Scientists have used data from the Cassini radar mapper to map the global wind pattern on Saturn's moon Titan using data collected over a four-year period, as depicted in this image. Credit:... |
| Chinese Space Junk Won't Endanger Space Station Crew A piece of Chinese space junk expected to zoom by the International Space Station Thursday will pass harmlessly by, NASA officials said after scrambling to determine whether the six people aboard... |
| Pinning Atoms Into Order In an international first, physicists of the University of Innsbruck, Austria have experimentally observed a quantum phenomenon, where an arbitrarily weak perturbation causes atoms to build an... |
| Cosmic Log: $1.4 million for oil cleanup ideas Mario Tama / Getty Images fileWorkers use absorbent boom to clean oil from a marsh on July 15 near Cocodrie, La. Oil cleanup technologies have lagged behind oil exploration technologies, but the $1.4... |
| Government of Canada Celebrates Food Day and the Best Food on Earth - Food Day, July 31, 2010 is a perfect opportunity to recognize Canadian farmers' hard work and dedication to producing the best food in the world. This Saturday marks the 8th annual national... |
| Harris Corp. lands NASA program contract The team is working under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $70 million. CRAVE contracts cover a wide range of tasks for human spaceflight programs... |
| New Report Urges U.S. Space Launch Policy Overhaul PARIS — The U.S. government should permit China to launch U.S.-built commercial satellites and force an overhaul of the U.S. Air Force's relationship with its principal launch-services ... |
| Satellite quantum-communication circles closer distance record for quantum encrypted communications between two sites on Earth is 144 kilometres. If quantum encryption is to go global the data must be sent via satellite links, and here the... |
| Opportunity Rover Captures Her First Dust Devil on Mars This is the first dust devil that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six-and-a-half years on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Texas A&M... |
| NASA/NIA 'Aviation Unleashed' to Imagine Future of Aviation /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- About 50 years ago TV animators created a vision of life almost 50 years from now. They predicted in 2062 people would be flying to work and using robots for housework. How... |
| Troy Aikman says he's doing 'Dancing With The Stars' Hot news! Troy Aikman is doing Dancing With The Stars. "I am, yeah," he told TMZ last night when the site's videographers caught up with him on the street leaving an L.A. restaurant and asked him... |
| Galaxy S, 3D TV tell Samsung's big plan Jeffrey Katzenberg, right, CEO of DreamWorks, checks out Samsung Electronics’ 3D LED-backlit LCD televisions with other unnamed executives on the sidelines of his participation earlier this year at... |
| DataDirect Networks Delivers Remarkable TCO After a Decade of Continuous Use at Strategic NASA Site Information Infrastructure Leader Celebrates 10-Year Milestone of First Customer Shipment, and a Decade of Round-the-Clock, High-Performance Production Service for One of the Most Demanding Computing... |
| OSU Gets $7.5 Million NASA Technology Award STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State University says it has received a $7.5 million grant that will allow it to collaborate with NASA to improve the use and effectiveness of online learning... |
| Debate Heats Up Over Meteor's Role in Ice Age Some scientists have thought that the Earth's Ice Age conditions 12,900 years ago were triggered by a meteor or comet. But a recent study suggests that the evidence pointing to the ancient... |
| Borger: Obama, Congress on different planets Let's face it: The White House and congressional Democrats live on different life cycles. The Democrats are worried about 2010; the president, about 2012. In politics, that's a lifetime of... |
| Space Farms Could Mine Minerals From Moon Dirt This illustration shows a lush green land on the moon inside a crater covered by a dome to protect and feed lunar astronauts while siphoning elements from the moon's regolith. Credit: Pat... |
| Spinning black holes could expose exotic particles BLACK holes do not have a reputation for giving up their secrets, but they could prove instrumental in uncovering exotic particles that are difficult to detect on... |
| 'Eternal plane' returns to Earth The military will want to use them as reconnaissance and communications platforms. Civilian and scientific programmes will equip them with small payloads for Earth observation... |
| It was in the stars: Observatory becomes national historic site The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, a monument to Canada’s honoured place in the study of astronomy, has been recognized as a national historic site.That puts the 92-year-old landmark on shared... |
| Space shuttle workers to lose jobs Jul 29 2010 WalesOnline The private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing Nasa’s space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees that they will be laid off in the autumn. ... |
| Brilliant Star In A Colourful Neighbourhood This image of part of the Carina Nebula was created from images taken through red, green and blue filters with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory... |
| GOES-13 Satellite Sees Severe Storms Strike US East Coast One of the most destructive storms in years struck Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area on July 25, 2010. Strong winds downed trees and power lines, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents... |
| James Webb Space Telescope Completes Cryogenic Mirror Test During cryogenic testing, the mirrors will be subjected to temperatures dipping to -415 degrees Fahrenheit, permitting engineers to measure in extreme detail how the shape of each mirror changes as... |
| Panel considers cost of space tourism U.S. space tourists hoping to buy a ticket for a suborbital flight could expect to pay between $50,000 and $100,000 by 2014, analysts say. For prices to drop that low, the commercial space tourism... |
| Hypatia - 4th Century Woman Astronomer The death of Hypatia, and the loss of the world's largest collection of scientific and mathematic writings, were factors that contributed to the halt of scientific advances in the West halt for... |
| Planets In Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in... |
| ISS Commander Responds To Love Letter From Earth International Space Station (ISS) Commander Alexander Skvortsov responded to a love letter he received in space from a 17-year-old girl from Moscow. The young girl sent a letter to the 44-year-old... |
| IceCube Spies Unexplained Pattern Of Cosmic Rays This "skymap," generated in 2009 from data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, shows the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Researchers from... |
| Huge satellite to become 'space junk' The European Space Agency is set to become the owner of what could become the most dangerous piece of space debris orbiting the Earth, officials say. The agency will take control of the Envisat... |
| Space walk successful despite lost parts Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station have successfully completed a space walk despite losing a tool and a washer, U.S. controllers said. Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko... |
| DLR Investigates The Existence Of Liquid Salt Solutions On Mars On this image, wide expanses of Kieserite, a hydrated magnesium sulphate salt, can be seen. Hydrated implies that water molecules are incorporated into the crystalline structure. Kieserite produces... |
| Astronomer: Manned missions less likely Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, Britain's astronomer royal says. In an interview 40 years after the first manned moon landing,... |
| GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape Engineers have conducted a fuel tank check of one of NASA's GRAIL mission spacecraft (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), scheduled for launch in 2011. Confirming the size and fit of... |
| Sea Launch Signs Agreement With EchoStar Sea Launch Company, a leading provider of launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of EchoStar Satellite Services L.C.C., a wholly owned... |
| July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They... |
