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NASA astronaut eager for next chocolate deliveryNASA astronaut Karen Nyberg said she can't wait for this weekend's arrival of a new cargo ship – and a fresh supply of chocolate. Dark or milk?
Radio telescopes spot Voyager 1 probeThe radio signal of the Voyager 1 probe, the first manmade object to exit our solar system, appears as a pale blue speck in a sea of darkness in a new NASA photo.
Weather, glitch delay space station supply ship's debutThe unmanned Cygnus spacecraft is set to launch one day later than originally planned, due to poor weather and a bad cable.
Astronomers find 'red nugget' seeds that helped form galaxies'Red nuggets' are compact galaxies packed with stars. They could represent the initial building blocks for some of the enormous elliptical galaxies astronomers see throughout the universe.
- Baby elephant cries for 5 hours. Is Mom rejection unusual?
Baby elephant cries for five hours in China zoo after his mother rejects him. Is it unusual for a baby elephant or other baby mammals to be rejected by their mothers?
Evolutionary biologists resolve 'Darwin's dilemma'Darwin was troubled by how rapidly fossils appeared, 540 million years ago, but a group of Australian scientists has calculated that early evolution was only four to five times as fast as later evolution: 'perfectly consistent with Darwin's theory.'
Scientists discover bizarre creature with mechanical gears on legsIssus coleoptratus, a plant-hopping insect, is the first living animal known to have functioning gears, scientists say.
Where is Voyager 1 heading?NASA's Voyager 1 probe is heading toward an encounter with a distant star, about 40,000 years from now.
Ig Nobel award winners include dung beetle and beer goggle researchersThe Ig Nobel awards show was held at Harvard Thursday night to award this year’s scientific projects that 'make people laugh, then make them think.'
Voyager 1: Humanity's time capsule to the cosmos clears the solar systemIt's official: Scientists say that Voyager 1, bearing photos and sounds from Earth and directions to our solar system, now has gone where no human craft has gone before, 11 billion miles away.
Ig Nobel awards to honor uproarious scienceNobel Prize laureates will commend scientists on the papers that are not frontrunners for the real Nobel Prize at a ceremony Thursday night at Harvard.
Insect uses 'gears' to jump, study findsThe leaps of baby plant-hopping bugs are powered by tiny structures that look remarkably like mechanical gears, new research shows.
Frog photobomb: NASA launches rocket, frogA frog found itself a bit too close to the launch pad during the liftoff off NASA's LADEE spacecraft last week. The space agency says the amphibian is in 'uncertain' condition.
Orangutans plan their trips in advance, without SiriSumatran orangutans plan their trips through the Indonesian jungle in advance, according to a new paper published in PLOS ONE that once again upends humans's uniqueness in the animal kingdom.
Blobfish 'wins' world's ugliest animal contestThe Ugly Animal Preservation Society, in the UK, has named the gelatinous, deep sea fish the world's most "aesthetically challenged" animal.
Trout eats shrews? Small trout ate 20 mouse-sized shrews, say scientists.Trout eats shrews: Researchers in Alaska recently opened up a 19-inch rainbow trout and were surprised to find the remains of about 20 shrews, a mouse-size mammal.
- Siberian Mowgli: Youth returns to civilization after 12 years in wilderness
Siberian Mowgli: Children raised in isolation have posed a developmental mystery that has intrigued the public since the myth of Romulus and Remus.
After nearly six months in space space station, astronauts return to EarthExpedition 36 to the International Space Station landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after spending 166 days in space.
Ancient Antarctic lake reveals bonanza of microbesA British research team has reported finding 20 different microbes in the first ever sediment sample to be analyzed from an Antarctic subglacial lake.
Hurricane Center: Humberto far from land, but Gabrielle buzzes BermudaUS National Hurricane Center reports tropical storm Humberto is nearing hurricane speeds far out in the Atlantic, while tropical storm Gabrielle hit at Bermuda with wind, rain and rough surf late Tuesday.
