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Yuri Gagarin: film celebrates first human space flight [VIDEO]
Yuri Gagarin was launched into space fifty years ago today. It was man's first time in space, and the entire trip around Earth is celebrated in a new film and mobile app that take viewers on the journey with Gagarin.
04/12/2011 04:40 am -
Roswell FBI memo: Baloney or hogwash?
Roswell FBI memo: A 1950 memo found in FBI archives is fueling reports that the US government secretly recovered crashed flying saucers. Are reports of a UFO cover-up a deranged and unfounded conspiracy theory or are they an irrational and baseless load of nonsense?
04/11/2011 03:41 pm -
Yuri Gagarin, Space Shuttle anniversaries celebrated on ISS
Yuri Gagarin and the Space Shuttle: Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space and the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch.
04/11/2011 03:33 pm -
New findings suggest that dinosaurs had lice
Studies of dinosaur lice suggest that birds and mammals began diversifying before dinosaurs went extinct.
04/11/2011 01:42 pm -
Have women's heads been getting bigger over the last 300 years?
A study of Spanish skulls spanning 300 years has shown that everyone's heads are been getting bigger, but that the size difference between the crania of women and men is shrinking.
04/07/2011 11:37 am -
Antarctic meteorite reveals new mineral
Antarctic meteorite: a new mineral has been discovered in a known Antarctic meteorite first discovered in 1969.
04/07/2011 01:00 am -
Could new discovery trump Dead Sea Scrolls? Scholars intrigued but cautious.
An Egyptologist has announced the discovery of 70 metal books in Jordan that he claims could be some of the oldest known Christian documents. But some evidence contradicts those claims.
03/31/2011 08:35 pm -
First photo of Mercury from orbiting spacecraft
The first of thousands of new photos of Mercury was released by NASA Tuesday. The Messenger spacecraft is the first to orbit Mercury and has begun a one-year mission to map the planet closest to the Sun.
03/30/2011 09:54 am -
Image of dinosaurs living with humans? A smear, say paleontologists
Creationists say Utah petroglyphs of a dinosaur drawn by humans 6,000 years ago prove their case. Paleontologists say dinosaur "legs" are stains on the rock, not man-made drawings.
03/29/2011 03:16 pm -
Mega-quakes and mega-disasters: Will US heed wake-up call in Japan?
Mega-quakes, like the one that struck Japan, can lead to complex mega-disasters. How prepared is the US to handle this kind of event?
03/28/2011 06:48 pm -
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Huge plasma tentacle erupts from the sun [VIDEO]
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a solar eruption that launched a massive, elongated cloud of electrically charged plasma from the sun.
03/25/2011 03:47 pm -
Saber-toothed vegetarian: What did it need those huge fangs for?
Saber-toothed vegetarian: Paleontologists in Brazil have unearthed a 260-million year old fossil of a saber-toothed, mammal-like reptile. Scientists were surprised to discover that the fanged creature was a vegetarian.
03/25/2011 02:29 pm -
Brown dwarf star likely the coldest star yet discovered
Brown dwarf: Located some 75 light years from Earth, the failed star dubbed CFBDSIR 1458+10B is likely the coldest star yet discovered, with a temperature about that of boiling water.
03/23/2011 04:54 pm -
El Chupacabra mystery origins traced to 1995 sci-fi film
Benjamin Radford has released what he says to be definitive proof that El Chupacabra is not real; it's not even a hoax, he says.
03/22/2011 06:09 pm -
How to launch something into space for $150
Once the sole domain of military pilots and rocket scientists, low-earth orbit can now be attained by ordinary citizens with inexpensive hardware. A Q&A with Spacehack founder and do-it-yourselfer Ariel Waldman.
03/22/2011 01:30 pm -
Quartz could hold key to explaining earthquakes
Why do some areas of the earth's crust repeatedly swell and crack, while others don't? The answer is in the quartz, a new study suggests.
03/21/2011 02:23 pm -
Rare 'supermoon' shines brighter than usual tonight
Saturday night's moon will appear larger and brighter than any in 18 years. Here's why.
03/19/2011 11:22 am -
NASA milestone: MESSENGER spacecraft enters orbit around Mercury
Mercury had been excluded from the travels of instrument-loaded orbiters because of the difficulty of the mission – until now. On Thursday, the NASA MESSENGER started orbiting the planet.
03/18/2011 02:09 pm -
Supermoon to make closest pass by Earth on Saturday
Supermoon: The moon will makes its closest approach to Earth on Saturday, appearing closer and larger to the naked eye. The last supermoon was eighteen years ago.
03/18/2011 01:54 am -
Astronauts observe Japan's tsunami aftermath from space
High-resolution photos taken from the International Space Station show some of the areas hit the hardest by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the northeastern coast of Japan.
03/17/2011 10:52 am
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