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What are those bright spots on Ceres? NASA space probe gets closer look.On May 3 and 4, NASA's Dawn spacecraft got its closest views yet of the dwarf planet Ceres and its mysterious bright spots.
- NASA space probe spots all five of Pluto's known moons
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now close enough to Pluto that it can capture images of all five of Pluto's known moons: Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos and Styx.
Astronauts stuck on ISS: Russian rocket malfunction delays their returnAstronauts stuck on ISS: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station scheduled to return home later this month will have to wait until June, as Russia looks into what caused its Progress cargo ship to lose control.
Can we reverse-engineer dinosaurs out of chickens?To gain insight about how birds' beaks evolved, scientists reverted the beaks of chicken embryos so that they were more like their reptilian ancestors.
Science NotebookHow Inge Lehmann discovered the truth about the Earth's coreInge Lehmann, who is honored Wednesday with a Google Doodle, made a name for herself at a time when there were few women scientists. Yet her rigorous observations of earthquake movements allowed her to glimpse the nature of the Earth's core.
Could your next pet be a robot?Can humans form the same attachment to robots that they do to animals? Several studies indicate they can.
Computer fails to beat humans in Carnegie Mellon poker faceoffCarnegie Mellon’s poker-playing AI fell short of victory in an 80,000-hand faceoff with human pros.
Elusive Siberian tigers captured in spectacular photosA duo of photographers have snapped spectacular photos of Russia's Amur tigers.
How NASA technology found trapped Nepal earthquake survivorsA new piece of hardware that detects heartbeats helped find buried victims of the earthquake.
Italian astronaut answers everyone's first question about spaceflightThe toilets work by suction, explains Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, in a video shot aboard the International Space Station.
- A blue sunset on the Red Planet (+animation)
NASA's Curiosity rover has recorded the sunset on Mars, which is tinted blue because of the way dust in the Martian atmosphere scatters sunlight.
Mother's Day snowstorm: Is it weird to get snow this late?A blizzard that was moving into the northern Midwest on Saturday night was slated to drop as much as two feet of snow on the Dakotas. Is it unusual to get snow this late in the spring?
Did a telescope reveal a 'hole' in space?European astronomers took a break from looking at stars, and instead focused on an apparent empty spot in space.
NASA wants your ideas on how to keep Mars colonists safeNASA is asking the public for its thoughts on how to help people survive on Mars with minimal assistance from Earth.
NASA space probe unlocks mysteries of Mercury's magnetic fieldPossibly billions of years old, Mercury's magnetic field may have once been as strong as that of Earth, suggests data from NASA's MESSENGER probe, which recently crashed into the planet closest to the sun.
Science NotebookBeyond the visible: How space photos get their colorSpace photos use infrared and ultraviolet light sensors to show us planets in our solar system and distant galaxies. That means the photos we see have to be artificially colored to give a sense of what those objects might look like to human eyes.
Scientists probe the dynamics of Texas 'earthquake country'A series of cluster earthquakes rattled the Dallas area this week – the fourth such cluster in Texas since 2009. All have occurred in areas with sizable and growing fracking operations.
Can Andromeda's vast halo of gas help explain how galaxies form?The halo of gas surrounding the Milky Way's neighboring Andromeda galaxy is far larger than previously thought, measuring 2 million light-years across.
What if spiders could fly? In Chicago, perhaps they do.Every year, Chicago is inundated with "flying" spiders, and they're not the only city. How do spiders do it?
- Out-of-control Russian spaceship: Where will it crash?
Russia's unmanned Progress 59 supply ship, which became unresponsive last month while orbiting Earth, expected to crash into the planet on Thursday. But where it will crash is anybody's guess right now.
