Space & Physics
Military and NASA Look to Partner with Commercial Satellite Industry
Government satellites may start to hitch rides with commercial spacecraft in Earth orbit
Stories by Clara Moskowitz
Space & Physics
Dark Matter Mystery May Soon Be Solved
Experiments to detect dark matter, which scientists believe makes up about a quarter of the universe, are underway and may yield direct evidence within a decade
Space & Physics
Amazing Photo Shows Saturn Dwarfing Tiny Moon
Mimas and its giant parent Saturn were captured by NASA's Cassini probe, which has been exploring the solar system for 15 years
Space & Physics
New NASA Spaceship Comes Together for 2014 Test Launch
Orion, which is designed to take humans to the moon, asteroids and Mars, could carry up to four astronauts
Space & Physics
Meteorite from Recent Fireball Hit Roof of Northern California Home
Researchers can now calculate and use the fireball trajectory to trace the meteorite back to its origins in the Asteroid Belt
Space & Physics
Speed of Universe's Expansion Measured Better Than Ever
The newest measurements, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, come from infrared observations of distant variable stars
Space & Physics
Hubble Telescope Reveals Farthermost View into the Universe
The "time tunnel into the distant past" gives us a glimpse of galaxies as they looked up to 13.2 billion years ago
The Sciences
Eternal Clock Could Keep Time after the Universe Dies
Scientists have envisioned a space-time crystal with cyclical structure in time as well as space
Space & Physics
NASA Astronaut Completes First Triathlon in Space
Sunita Williams ran, biked and "swam" with California triathletes to combat the muscle degeneration that comes with weightlessness
The Sciences
How Many Neutrons and Protons Can Get Along? Maybe 7,000
The finding could be put to use at a new facility opening in 2020 that might create new elements—that is, nuclei with more than 118 protons—in addition to new isotopes of the known elements...
The Sciences
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Aren't
The same lab that first reported the shocking results last year, which could have upended modern physics, now reports that neutrinos "respect the cosmic speed limit"
Space & Physics
SpaceX Rocket Launch Vindicates Commercial Spaceflight
The company's Falcon 9 liftoff this morning represents the potential of a new era in U.S. spaceflight, the White House science adviser says
Space & Physics
Science Fiction Is Barely Ahead of Space Exploration Reality
Science fiction writers will always, by definition, be one step ahead of engineers, and interstellar travel and time travel still elude them
The Sciences
New "Beauty Baryon" Particle Discovered at Large Hadron Collider
It's just the second new particle to be discovered at the atom smasher where physicists also seek the elusive Higgs boson particle
Space & Physics
Leonard Nimoy to Shuttle Enterprise: "Live Long and Prosper" in NYC
The "Star Trek" actor was on hand when the shuttle Enterprise flew in atop a jumbo jet Friday and explained the show's influence on the shuttle's name
Space & Physics
Earth Formed from Diverse Meteorite Mix
A match of silicon isotopes in terrestrial and lunar rock samples is revealing more about how both bodies really formed
Space & Physics
Biggest Map Yet of Universe's Invisible Dark Matter Unveiled
Scientists hope that by plotting out the distribution of dark matter throughout space, they will come closer to understanding what it is
Space & Physics
Russian Engineers Race to Save Troubled Mars Moon Probe
Phobos-Grunt appears to be stuck in Earth orbit. In two weeks, if its thrusters aren't restarted, the spacecraft will be lost completely
Space & Physics
NASA Pinpoints Pacific Ocean Grave of Fallen UARS Satellite
The defunct Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) reentered the atmosphere at 12:01 A.M. Eastern time (0401 GMT) on Saturday, falling into the Pacific at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 degrees east longitude...
Policy
Last Shuttle Astronauts Bid Historic Farewell to Space Station
Atlantis is on its way home for a final landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
