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10 romantic movies for Valentine's Day

Check out these 10 movies for the holiday
Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012

What lies ahead sky-wise for 2012? Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist, selected what he considers to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year,
Falling satellite: 10 times space junk has crashed into Earth
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North Korea vows satellite launch, with rocket that could reach Hawaii

North Korea says it wants to peacefully use space. Analysts say the regime wants to test a missile that could deliver a nuclear warhead to the US.
Richard Nixon: The gushy, romantic side of 'Tricky Dick' (+video)

Richard Nixon's love letters to Patricia Ryan showed a romantic young man. The letters from 1938, reveal Nixon, the 37th US president, as idealistic, poetic.
James Cameron to go into the deep for film and science

This month, filmmaker James Cameron plans to lead the second trip to the deepest place on Earth. He aims to collect samples for science, as well as video footage.
Filmmaker James Cameron to plunge to deepest spot in ocean

James Cameron plans to visit the Challenger Deep, which at seven miles below the ocean's surface is the deepest place on Earth, aboard a state-of-the-art diving craft.
Helicopter mid-air crash kills 7 Marines in Calif. desert

The aircraft collided in a remote portion of the Yuma Training Range Complex on the California side of the Chocolate Mountains very close to the Arizona border, Dooley said. The exact location hasn't been confirmed.
Charlie Weingarten finds fresh ways to champion selfless acts of philanthropy

A member of a philanthropic family founded Explore.org to inspire selflessness and lifelong learning.
Earth's next supercontinent dubbed Amasia, when to expect it

Supercontinents are giant landmasses made up of more than one continental core. The best-known supercontinent, Pangaea, was once the world's only continent — it was on it that the dinosaurs arose — and was the progenitor of today's continents.
'Supergiant' amphipod discovered in deep sea near New Zealand

'Supergiant' amphipod: An expedition from the University of Aberdeen has yielded rare specimens of a giant, pale crustacean living 4 miles beneath the ocean surface.
10 romantic movies for Valentine's Day

Check out these 10 movies for the holiday
Russian probe crash sparks conspiracy theories, confusion

Russia's Phobos-Grunt space probesuffered a debilitating malfunction shortly after its November 2011 launch, which stranded it in low-Earth orbit for more than two months before it succumbed to gravitational forces and plummeted through the atmosphere on Jan. 15.
After airing false footage of Costa Concordia, Italian media under fire (+video)

Critics say mistakes made while reporting on the Costa Concordia undermine the Italian journalism industry's argument that its strict regulations are essential to maintaining credibility.
Russia's dead Mars probe crashed in unknown location

So far, no eyewitness accounts of the Phobos-Grunt re-entry have surfaced, and there have been no verified sightings of any pieces of the 14.5-ton spacecraft that may have survived.
First-ever private rocket launch to ISS postponed

The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by SpaceX was scheduled to launch toward the space station on Feb. 7, but the company has decided to postpone the flight to accommodate more engineering tests.
Russian space probe may crash into Indian Ocean

If Phobos-Grunt comes down at the in the predicted window it will fall over a stretch of empty ocean west of the Indonesian island of Java, according to a re-entry projection map Roscosmos published with the update.
7.3 quake strikes off coast of Indonesia; tsunami warning issued

7.3 quake near Indonesia is the strongest since the deadly 2004 temblor. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage following the 7.3 quake.
'Extinct' humongous Galapagos tortoise could be making a comeback

A genetic analysis of a Galapagos tortoise revealed DNA from a related species thought to have gone extinct 150 years ago, suggesting that the two species are mating and producing hybrid offspring.
Nearly 15 tons of failed Russian Mars probe could slam into Earth Jan. 15

The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft was stranded in Earth orbit shortly after its Nov. 8 launch, and it's been circling lower and lower ever since.
Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012

What lies ahead sky-wise for 2012? Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist, selected what he considers to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year,
Samoa skips Friday in leap across international dateline

The time jump means that Samoa's 186,000 citizens will now be the first in the world to ring in the new year, rather than the last.
Even without Herman Cain's 'electrified' fence, the border is already lethal

Guest blogger Bill Ong Hing argues that the US strategy to discourage easy crossings at the Mexican border, contributing to hundreds of deaths each year, is 'the moral equivalent of Cain's electrified fence.'
German satellite: What are the odds that it will hit you?

German satellite: The odds of a piece of the retired German ROSAT satellite striking a person are higher than that of the NASA satellite that plunged into the Pacific Ocean in September.
NASA pinpoints crash site of fallen satellite

NASA has determined the exact point where its huge UARS climate satellite fell to Earth. It's in the Pacific Ocean.
NASA says 'we may never know' where runaway satellite crashed

The end to the Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite that fell to Earth Saturday remains unknown due to its wide possible debris field. Best estimates suggest most of the debris fell into the ocean.
Falling satellite: 10 times space junk has crashed into Earth

Falling satellite trackers at NASA say it will hit Friday night or Saturday morning and has a small chance of crashing in the US. But the precise track and timing of the falling satellite is still hard to predict. What is known is that events like this have happened before. From NASA rockets to Soviet satellites – including debris that actually hit someone – the history of falling space junk is long. Here are 10 other pieces of space junk that have survived the blazing voyage through Earth's atmosphere.
Africa Rising: Nigeria plans to build nuclear power plants

Africa could be home to an unlikely boom in nuclear power plant construction, as Nigeria plans to join South Africa as the continent's second nuclear nation.