Science

Russia successfully launches manned spacecraft to ISS

Russia's spacecraft Soyuz TMA-04M with a crew of three blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.

NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest

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Technicians prep the OCO-2 instrument for shipping at JPL. The instrument consists of three parallel, high-...

NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid

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Mineral Diversity at Vesta's South Pole
This image, made from data obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the...

Anti-malaria garment designed to drive away mosquitoes

A collaboration between a scientist and a designer from Africa has resulted in the creation of a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria.

Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making

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This artistically modified image of the local galaxy Arp 220, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helps...

NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'

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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to detect a super Earth's direct light for the first time using its sensitive...

NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Earthquakes

The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes across the western United States....

NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust

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It's a dust bunny of cosmic proportions. Astronomers used images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or...