| L.A. Galaxy boss says won't rush Becks back into action L.A. Galaxy boss Bruce Arena has said that he has no plans to rush England football star David Beckham back into... | |
| Ancient bacteria could pave way for new and improved sunscreens Cyanobacteria - organisms that thrived on Earth before there was enough oxygen to block harmful ultraviolet light-could pave way for new and improved sunscreens, according to a new... |
| NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun's biggest mysteries NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever... |
| Chief rabbi slams Stephen Hawking for excluding God's role in universe creation The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, has lashed out at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist claimed in his new book that God had no role to play in the creation of the... |
| 2001 Indian 'red rain' showered earth with 'alien life', claim theorists After nine years of research, panspermia theorists have said that the 'red' rains that occurred in India in July 2001 contained bugs that were unlike anything ever found on the Earth, suggesting that it may be an alien form of... |
| Guts of Exploded Star Revealed A wave of "star guts" ejected into space from the supernova explosion of a massive dying star has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The new supernova image allows astronomers... |
| Satellites Help Aid Workers Plan Pakistan Flood Relief This image from ESA's Envisat satellite shows a 100 by 500 km (62 by 310 mile) strip of the flood area in Pakistan on Aug. 24, 2010. The blue areas are inundated regions. Credit:... |
| Grounded Space Station Module May Get New Mission The node structural test article (STA) is offloaded through the open nose of the Super Guppy transport aircraft following its arrival at Kennedy Space Center from Marshall Space Flight Center in... |
| Top 10 summer sky objects to see before fall As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Compiling such a... |
| Some ancient galaxies had wild youth Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say. Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space... |
| Tether maneuvers spacecraft without fuel A NASA team is preparing a bid to test a chemical-free propulsion system that taps the power of Earth's magnetic field to move satellites and spacecraft in orbit. Think of the force holding... |
| Gadget Lab Podcast: iPods, Apple TV and Samsung's Galaxy Tab This week’s episode of the Gadget Lab podcast is heavy on fruits. High on vitamin A, Dylan Tweney gushes over the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid, while yours truly dishes out this week’s... |
| NASA launches free iPad app iPhone app the organization already offers. It includes thousands of images from the NASA picture bank, as well as videos documenting NASA's efforts. Folks who spend time watching NASA TV will be... |
| Is This Venus Williams’s Last Call? Venus Williams could practice all day, stopping only after she hit the 550 balls that her father threw her from a shopping cart. “Last one!” she would tell him, excited to have reached... |
| Wanted For Long Space Missions: Flexible Astronaut, Works Well With Others When it comes to flying in space, the makeup of an astronaut crew can be just as important as the mission itself, and the same goes for a team of six volunteers going through the motions of a... |
| Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep A FAMILY of asteroids that travels in lockstep with Jupiter appears to be different in one important respect from their purported kin in the outer solar system. The mismatch could spell trouble for... |
| Tilting stars may explain backwards planets Planets tend to form in a disc that surrounds their star's equator, and orbit the star in the same direction as its spin. But recently, astronomers have found about 10 stars that host planets in... |
| New Horizons Mission Practices Telescopic Imager on Pluto’s Twin pictures of Neptune , which at the time, was 3.5 billion km (2.15 billion miles) away. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped several photos of... |
| How to Crash Stars Together A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky... |
| 27-in. IMac 'the Center of My Digital Universe' Five Technologies Made Popular by Apple The new iMac comes in two versions: One features an LED-backlit 21.5-in. widescreen LCD with the Intel Core i3 architecture (starting at $1,199), the other is... |
| Samsung unveils new Galaxy Tab Samsung Electronics unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin on Thursday. The thin tablet device offers users ``a new galaxy of possibilities'' with... |
| NASA Studies Conditions That Make Storms Intensify FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—NASA scientists flew Thursday into Hurricane Earl to gather data about what makes some tropical storms strengthen into destructive hurricanes while most... |
| Chinese Satellites Bump During Secret Maneuvers A Chinese Long March 2D rocket carrying the new satellite Shijian ("Practice" in Chinese) blasted off on June 15 at 9:39 p.m. from the Jiuquan space center. Credit: China Aerospace Science and... |
| NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:10 CDT Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots (115 miles per hour), continues... |
| NASA Sees Depression Nine Become Gaston Then Back To A Depression Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a... |
| NASA Catches Earl's Heavy Rainfall As It Approaches The US Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Hurricane Earl is still a powerful category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale as it approaches the North Carolina coast today. NASA's... |
| NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:02 CDT NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encounters during a symposium at 9 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept.... |
| Astronauts to stump for Robinson Republican congressional candidate Art Robinson has landed two astronauts — one the second man to orbit the earth and the other one of the last men to walk on the moon — to... |
| Labor Day weekend for astronauts: Space toilet cleaning Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off after they clean the space toilet. ... |
| Kids prove they’re MoonBot masters Gaetano, What do you get out of insisting this was all your idea?? Did you put the money up? Did you organize any events or conventions? NO. You did none of the leg work. And if you really think that... |
| If Rajendra Pachauri goes, who on Earth would want to be IPCC chair? | John Vidal the InterAcademy Council (IAC) report into the IPCC's processes earlier this week (which also found Pachauri not guilty of any misconduct), commentators and editorials... |
| Galaxy Tablet May Herald Boon For Vodafone people ) lost exclusivity to sell contracts for the popular phone. Deutsche Telekom would not comment on the report, but Bank of America-Merrill Lynch analyst Emmet Kelly expects Vodafone to secure... |
| Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say. Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space... |
| Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station Colonel Chris Hadfield looks over a model of the International Space Station at the Longueuil headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil near Montreal Thursday, September 2, 2010. It was... |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab Vs. the IPad: Compare for Yourself Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch slate built to complete with the current tablet king, Apple's thus-far-unchallenged iPad. Sure, there have been a couple... |
| Earth from Space: Giant Iceberg Enters Nares Strait ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. This animation shows that the iceberg, the... |
| Earth from space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on August 4,... |
| Rare Earth Metals Options Strategic Claims in the Red Wine Complex Rare Earth Metals Inc. ("RA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RA) is pleased to announce that it has added to its land holdings in the Red Wine/Letitia Lake area of west central Labrador through the... |
| Labor Day Weekend for Astronauts: Space Toilet Cleaning and Exercise Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off — after they clean... |
| Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall With the Summer Triangle passing away to the west, the planet Jupiter comes to dominate the autumn sky in September, adrift in a menagerie of constellations named after sea creatures. Credit: Starry... |
| Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found SOME 16 million years ago, north became south in a matter of years. Such fast flips are impossible, according to models of the Earth's core, but this is now the second time that evidence has been... |
