Developer: Kan. caverns could preserve human race
After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might ...
Search for 1st Web page takes detour into NC
For the European physicists who created the World Wide Web, preserving its history is as elusive as unlocking the mysteries of how the universe began.
China marks decade of human spaceflight
China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face ...
'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
Neil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum. But there's no NASA center named for the man ...
NASA's veteran Mars rover driving to new spot
NASA's Opportunity rover is rolling across the Martian surface again, leaving behind a clay-rich rock in search of more discoveries. Mission managers ...
Curiosity rover to head toward Mars mountain soon
Ten months after Curiosity's daring Mars landing, the NASA rover is finally about to pack up and head toward the base of a mountain. Discoveries and ...
White House: Asteroid 'poses no threat' to Earth
Have no fear: The White House says an asteroid more than 1 1/2 miles long poses no threat to planet Earth. The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 was ...
Big asteroid swinging by Earth has its own moon
Astronomers getting their first close-up glimpse of a giant asteroid about to whiz by Earth found a surprise bonus rock. A smaller moon asteroid is ...
Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip
Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, ...
Rounded pebbles on Mars reveal past flowing water
A fresh analysis by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars. During a pit stop last year, Curiosity came upon ...
QE2 asteroid to fly by Earth from safe distance
An asteroid more than 1½ miles long will zoom past Earth this week from a far-off distance. The big rock called Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its ...
NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid ...
Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock
NASA's Curiosity rover drills again. The space agency said Monday that Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock and will transfer a pinch of powder ...
NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system
Cyprus may get its moon rock after 40 years
Cyprus may finally get its piece of the moon. Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock ...
Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2013 so far
The sun has fired off a massive flare, the strongest solar eruption this year. The powerful flare occurred Sunday and erupted on the side of the sun ...
Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and ...
'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
The moon glided between the Earth and sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light, for the few skygazers lucky enough to see Friday's "ring ...
NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life
NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right ...
Israeli high-tech pioneer Efraim Arazi dies
Efraim "Efi" Arazi, a pioneer of Israel's powerful high-tech industry who helped develop technology that allowed for a video recording of the first ...
Hawaii land board approves Thirty Meter Telescope
A plan by California and Canadian universities to build the world's largest telescope at the summit of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano won approval from ...
Soviet Mars spacecraft possibly spotted in photos
Space fans from Russia scanning NASA images have spotted what may be a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1971 and then mysteriously stopped ...
Stephen Hawking: Explore space for humanity's sake
Stephen Hawking, who spent his career decoding the universe and even experienced weightlessness, is urging the continuation of space exploration — for ...
Senator: NASA to lasso asteroid, bring it closer
NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator said Friday.
Mars missions scaled back in April because of sun
It's the Martian version of spring break: Curiosity and Opportunity, along with their spacecraft friends circling overhead, will take it easy this ...
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