March 10 2010 05:41 Universe Today
Massive Repeated Explosions Halted Star Formation in Early Universe
Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in th...

March 10 2010 03:25 Discovery News - Space
The LHC to Shut Down... Again?
The epic start-up drama surrounding the world\'s most powerful particle accelerator just took another painful twist. Due to unforese...

March 10 2010 02:51 Discovery News - Space
Test-Firing of SpaceX Falcon Rocket Aborted
There\'s flame in the trenches, but not the one Space Exploration Technologies was hoping for, as it counted down Tuesday afternoon ...

March 10 2010 01:22 Universe Today
SpaceX Falcon 9 Test Fire Ends with Abort
No official word from SpaceX yet, but it appears the 3.5 second test-fire on Tuesday of the Falcon 9 rocket aborted immediately afte...

March 09 2010 23:14 New Scientist - Space
Apollo rocks dusted off to find new evidence of water
Forty years after the Apollo astronauts bounced across the moon, new studies are revealing water inside the samples they returned &n...

March 09 2010 22:15 Universe Today
Where\'s My Jetpack? Right Here
Step right up — you can now get your very own jetpack. That's right, a real, not-science-fiction-honest-to-goodness jetp...

March 09 2010 20:22 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Extends Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract
NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Ho...

March 09 2010 19:59 Universe Today
Carnival of Space #144, Oscar Edition
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Ian O'Neill over at Discovery News/Space, (and formerly of Universe Today!) wh...

March 09 2010 17:54 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communications
NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the In...

March 09 2010 17:50 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Launches Simulation of Satellite Communications
NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the In...

March 09 2010 17:48 Portal To the Universe
Secretary of the Navy to Headline Climate, Energy Conference
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will be the keynote speaker at...

March 09 2010 17:47 Universe Today
Possibility of Past Water on Mars Takes a Hit
Images of Mars taken from orbit show a massive system of riverbeds and canyons etched by water. Or maybe not. A new study of one ...

March 09 2010 16:41 New Scientist - Space
Mars glacier lubricant could fuel rockets
The ice at the planet\'s north pole may be moving on a bed of salty sludge, which one day could be handy for fuel March 09 2010 16:35 Portal To the Universe
Alvarez Theory on Dinosaur Die-Out Upheld: Experts Find Asteroid Guilty of Killing the Dinosaurs
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: An international panel of experts has ruled in favor of the theory proposed ...

March 09 2010 15:37 Portal To the Universe
“The Rosenfeld” Named After California’s Grandfather of Energy Efficiency
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: A group of scientists propose today in a refereed article in Environmental R...

March 09 2010 12:51 RedOrbit News - Space
White Dwarf Binary System Has Orbit of Just 5 Minutes
An international team of astronomers, including Professor Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs from the University of Warwick, have shown ...

March 09 2010 12:50 RedOrbit News - Space
White Dwarf Binary System Has Orbit of Just 5 Minutes
An international team of astronomers, including Professor Tom Marsh and Dr Danny Steeghs from the University of Warwick, have shown ...

March 09 2010 11:25 RedOrbit News - Space
Deep Space Network Antenna Undergoing Major Surgery
Image Caption: The 70-meter antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in the Mohave Desert in California. This comp...

March 09 2010 11:25 RedOrbit News - Space
Deep Space Network Antenna Undergoing Major Surgery
Image Caption: The 70-meter antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in the Mohave Desert in California. This comp...

March 09 2010 10:59 New Scientist - Space
Did \'midwife molecule\' assemble first life on Earth?
A previously unrecognised molecule, similar to a type found in meteorites, may have helped the first biomolecules assemble from thei...

March 09 2010 10:32 Discovery News - Space
The Carnival of Space #144
Welcome to the 144th Carnival of Space! For those of you who have participated in this weekly cosmic party, you know the drill, but ...

March 09 2010 09:07 Portal To the Universe
Capillarity in action – a lesson from space
ESA Human Spaceflight and Exploration: In space, many things work differently, but not always. Take the movement of...

March 09 2010 08:00 Portal To the Universe
Keck telescope confirms smallest known star duo
Keck Observatory: Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have identified the smallest known binary system to ...

March 09 2010 05:00 NASA Breaking News
NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communications
NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the In...

March 09 2010 05:00 Portal To the Universe
NASA Launches Interactive Simulation
NASA's Ames Research Center News and Features: NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation for virtu...

March 09 2010 05:00 Portal To the Universe
NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communications
NASA Breaking News: NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all age...

March 09 2010 05:00 NASA Breaking News
NASA Extends Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract
NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Ho...

March 08 2010 21:09 New Scientist - Space
Martian moon\'s secrets to be revealed during flybys
Europe\'s Mars Express spacecraft is performing a series of 12 flybys of the Martian moon Phobos, making the best ever measurements ...

March 08 2010 21:09 New Scientist - Space
Martian moon\'s secrets to be revealed during fly-bys
Europe\'s Mars Express spacecraft is performing a series of 12 fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos, making the best ever measurements...

March 08 2010 20:13 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16-18
NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to su...

March 08 2010 20:03 Portal To the Universe
Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the gia...

March 08 2010 19:46 Discovery News - Space
Obama to Host Space Summit in Florida
Say what you like about President Obama, but at least he’s no coward. Otherwise, the last place he’d want to show his face is ce...

March 08 2010 16:11 RedOrbit News - Space
How ESA Got Its Tweet Back
Image Caption: Esa Alanen, who gave his twitter account \'esa\' to ESA, visited the European Astronaut Center in Cologne on Friday 5...

March 08 2010 15:50 Universe Today
Obama to Unveil \"Ambitous\" Plan for NASA
President Obama will travel to Florida to unveil an "ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency on a reinvigorated path of s...

March 08 2010 13:54 Universe Today
Universe Puzzle No. 4
As with last week's Universe Puzzle, something that cannot be answered by five minutes spent googling, a puzzle that requires ...

March 08 2010 13:03 Portal To the Universe
Earthquake in Chile
Royal Astronomical Society: The astronomical community will be relieved to learn that, we understand, most astronom...

March 08 2010 12:53 New Scientist - Space
Puffed-up planets are heated like toast
Wind-driven electrical currents could explain why some exoplanets are much bigger than expected – and account for Jupiter\'s strip...

March 08 2010 12:07 Portal To the Universe
STFC makes a BIG Bang in Manchester
Science and Technology Facilities Council News and Press Releases: Scientists from across the STFC are heading to M...

March 08 2010 11:57 Discovery News - Space
Speck Spills Secret of Comet\'s Birth
A solar shock wave may have flung a particle to the outer solar system where it became part of a comet.

March 08 2010 11:15 RedOrbit News - Space
Obama Plans To Address Vision For NASA In April
The White House said on Sunday that President Barack Obama plans to outline his administration\'s vision for NASA, along with an eve...

March 08 2010 07:27 Portal To the Universe
How ESA got its tweet back
ESA Top News: On Friday, Esa Alanen and family visited the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, as guests of ESA, ...

March 08 2010 05:00 Portal To the Universe
NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16 -18
NASA Breaking News: NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase an...

March 08 2010 05:00 NASA Breaking News
NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16 -18
NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to su...

March 07 2010 20:43 Universe Today
Taking The Pulse Of A Supernova – NGC 4490
NGC 4490/4485 – T. Grossman, D. Hager and R. JohnsonWay out yonder some 40 to 50 million light years away in the constellation...

March 07 2010 14:45 RedOrbit News - Space
Scientists Find Interstellar Dust in Spacecraft
NASA scientists said they might have identified the first specks of interstellar dust in materials collected by the agency\'s Stardu...

March 07 2010 13:10 Universe Today
A New Edition of This Week In Space
Florida's Space Coast braces for layoffs, Buzz Aldrin muses on the next steps for NASA and his upcoming stint on "Dancing...

March 07 2010 06:14 Discovery News - Space
Is It ATLAS or Is It Art?
CERN has done a heckuva job in raising public awareness of the Large Hadron Collider; I\'d argue that it\'s currently the most recog...

March 07 2010 05:54 Discovery News - Space
Cosmic Clues
Last month astrophysicists at Stanford\'s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology presented their latest results fro...

March 07 2010 05:30 Discovery News - Space
Planetary Trash Talk
The inspiration for the new NOVA program, \"The Pluto Files,\" featuring astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, was the public outcry that ...

March 07 2010 03:00 Discovery News - Space
Come Feel the Noise
The physics blogosphere is buzzing about a new paper by cosmologist Craig Hogan -- the subject of a long feature by Ron Cowen in Sci...