Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this weekend.
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Wideband Global SATCOM provides the U.S. military, national leaders and allies with high-capacity broadband communications, also can be used by remotely piloted aircraft
Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s
U.S. space agency said it was looking for one or more companies to take over operations and maintenance of Launch Complex 39A
Solar Impulse, which flies at an average pace of just 43 miles per hour (69 km per hour), began its cross-country sojourn on May 3 with an 18-hour-plus flight from northern California to Phoenix.
The 2012 Atlantic season produced 19 tropical storms, 10 of which became hurricanes and two became major hurricanes
The average rate of decline for U.S. amphibians is about 3.7 percent a year, which may sound small but compounds over time, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey reported
Security experts welcomed the move as a positive step toward securing a service that is widely used by consumers, political activists, advertisers and news outlets
The collaboration between GSK and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will study potential new drugs to treat conventional pathogens and those that might be developed as bioterrorism weapons.
NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a mysterious region of the solar atmosphere that may be crucial to understanding what powers space weather.
The flash was so bright that anyone looking at the moon at the moment of impact could have seen it without a telescope, NASA said.
The report found an overwhelming view among scientists that human activity, led by the use of fossil fuels, was the main cause of rising temperatures in recent decades.
According to Oleg Panteleyev, who along with other members of the upper chamber assisted the project, said the software is a slideshow of thousands of photographs of the nature, accompanied by relaxing music.
The satellite, which cost about $121 million, will replace a spacecraft launched in 1996 that already is twice past its design lifetime.
Kepler space telescope has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said
The deal will introduce a ban on the practice of throwing undersized or unwanted fish back into the sea, often to die.
Ice2sea found that sea levels would rise by between 16.5 and 69 cm under a scenario of moderate global warming this century.
The world's largest software company has been touting the update, previously code-named 'Blue,' as a series of improvements to the Windows 8 software
Commander Chris Hadfield performs a reworking of the David Bowie classic Space Oddity
The mission was the 35th expedition aboard the space station, a permanently staffed laboratory for biomedical, materials science, technology demonstrations and other research
Faster responses to emergencies for people living in the Arctic, including floods or forest fires, were also urgently need, the report said.