The NASA MESSENGER satellite has established orbit around Mercury and is now transmitting back to Earth the first images ever shot from the planet's orbit.
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NASA ‘Spirit’ Mars Rover May Be Dead
The Mars 'Spirit' rover, having been silent for over a year, appears to finally be officially dead.
Read More »Japan Earthquake Stopped Time (Not Really)
The earthquake in Japan knocked out two atomic clock transmitter stations, rendering thousands of time-telling devices in that part of the country useless.
Read More »Behold! The Sun’s Light Show
NASA released some time-lapse videos of some of the activity going on with our Sun. It's almost hypnotic.
Read More »Earth Hour Looks to Have Been a Big Disappointment
Earth Day has come and gone, and it seems that the majority if people either did not know it had come, or they simply did not care.
Read More »Journey to Nowhere Near the Center of the Earth
Fifty years after their first attempt to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle, say that they very well could do so again. For the first time.
Read More »Particle Acceleration Discovered in Tycho Supernova
X-Ray stripes have been found inside the Tycho Supernova, showing where the magnetic fields are, in not so many words, "right jacked."
Read More »Artifacts May Show That Man May Have Been Here Well Before the Clovis
Artifacts found in Texas may reveal that humans were in North America two-thousand years before the Clovis people came over from Asia.
Read More »Galaxy’s Coldest Star is as Hot as a Cup of Coffee
Scientists have found a brown dwarf star that they believe is only 207 degrees warm. If that's not cool enough, another star they're investigating is believed to be cooler than the human body.
Read More »Female Baboons May Be Subject to Domestic Violence
Believe it or not, certain species of baboons may subject each other to a primitive form of domestic violence.
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