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Neil deGrasse Tyson—the acclaimed astrophysicist, writer, and director of the Hayden Planetarium—lays out what it will take for America to remain the leading superpower in space. 03.19.2012
For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two ... > full story
Anti-CD47: A Way to Cure Cancer One drug called anti-CD47 has the capabilities to cure not one type of cancer, but all forms of cancer.
After years of preparation and days of uncooperative weather conditions, James Cameron is sinking fast to Earth's deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm in his futuristic sub. A freshly exploded star has been confirmed in a relatively nearby galaxy, offering astronomers a glimpse at the earliest stages of a supernova. Are day and night equally long today, the 2012 vernal equinox (or spring equinox)?
The Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, will see in infrared, the light emitted by the farthest objects we can detect.
PASADENA, CA—NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists overseeing the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission said Monday that the Spirit's latest transmissions could indicate a growing resentment of the Red Planet. Enlarge Image Spirit completes a diagram of an erect human penis on the planet's dusty surface.
Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the world's largest telescope when completed near the end of the decade. The GMT will help astronomers probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy - mysterious forms of matter and energy that allow galaxies to form while the expansion of the Universe accelerates.
Nibiru has been linked to NASA, and is also sometimes referred to or confused with Planet X, another supposed world for which there is no evidence.
A deeper look at Centaurus A