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NASA Mission Discovers Particle Accelerator in Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts WASHINGTON, July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions…
Watch live tonight, Monday, as Asteroid 2013 NE19 will bypass within 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers) of Earth. You can watch the asteroid webcast live here at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT Tuesday, July 22), courtesy of the Slooh…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from Saturn system will image the Earth between 2:27 and 2:42 PDT (5:27 and 5:42 p.m. EDT, or 21:27 and 21:47 UTC) Friday, July 19. Cassini will be nearly 900 million miles (nearly 1.5 billion kilometers) away…
We have got names for the two tiny moons orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto. The once called P4 and P5, are now called “Kerberos” and “Styx”. The new names of the moons were given by the International Astronomical Union, the…
In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician, illusionist, and stuntman David Blaine described what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes — a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) — and what…
2-Million-Year-Old Creature “Australopithecus Sediba” To Help Explain Evolution. The site of Malapa, South Africa, has yielded perhaps the richest assemblage of early hominin fossils on the continent of Africa. The fossil remains of Au. sediba were discovered in August of…
Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket was rolled out to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at Wallops Flight Facility in preparation for a test flight targeted for later this month. Antares is designed to propel a Cygnus cargo spacecraft laden with…
Have you ever wondered what will happen to your tears if you cry in space? Here is Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrating the physics of tears in space. Can you cry in space? Sure, but Hadfield said “Tears…
Today also marks the first one-day launch to the International Space Station by a Soyuz spacecraft carrying a human crew — a historic first for the orbiting laboratory. NASA’s webcast of the launch will begin at 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930…
This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old….