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Mars rover finds surprising rock, nuzzles it and shoots it with lasersThe rock is not like other rocks seen on Mars. It has more sodium and potassium.
Space shuttle Endeavour: A final 2 m.p.h. mission through Los AngelesThe space shuttle Endeavour began its 2-mph crawl through streets of Los Angeles at about 2 a.m. Friday. A retired laser scientist uses Endeavour's terrestrial crawl as a teaching moment for Los Angeles school children.
Diamond-studded planet orbits sun-like starResent research found that more than one-third of the newly discovered planet, 55 Cancri e, may be covered in diamonds. This discovery marks the first of a planet so fundamentally different from Earth.
NASA rover Curiosity finds a rock not seen before on MarsUsing a laser and X-rays, the NASA rover Curiosity identified a rock named Jake as a form of basalt, similar to volcanic rocks found in ocean-island settings on Earth.
Martian black glass meteorite may reveal Red Planet's secretsWithin a Tissint meteorite, scientists found an abundance of black glass that they say may contain traces of Mars' surface, atmosphere and interior.
Bizarre alien super-Earth planet probably made of diamondThe alien planet, a so-called 'super-Earth,' is called 55 Cancri e and was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy.
Ancient, fossilized, insect-like brain surprisingly complexThe fossilized brain, found in an extinct arthropod from China, looks very similar to the brains of today's modern insects.
Chemistry Nobel could lead to drugs with fewer side effectsThe US scientists who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry were able to map how cells detect and respond to chemicals they encounter.
Bizarre star spiral may provide glimpse into sun's futureUsing the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array in northern Chile, an international team of astronomers found the spiral structure never seen before.
Dragon capsule reaches space station, chocolate ripple ice cream intactSpaceX's Dragon capsule delivered cargo including a little ice cream to the International Space Station Wednesday, confirming that a new era for NASA has finally been realized.
SpaceX Dragon: Private space capsule delivers precious cargo to space stationThe unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by station astronauts using a robotic arm after an apparently flawless approach by the cargo-laden space capsule.
Einstein's math may also describe faster-than-light velocitiesDespite an apparent prohibition on such travel by Einstein’s theory of special relativity, the scientists said the theory actually lends itself easily to a description of velocities that exceed the speed of light.
Nobel Prize for Physics rewards 'groundbreaking' quantum experimentsFrenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland, who share the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics, worked independently to develop a way to watch quantum behavior of particles.
Did Mars rover photograph a broken piece of itself?Curiosity scooped its first Mars sample using its robotic arm Sunday (Oct. 7) and used onboard cameras to snap photos of the event.
Nobel Physics Prize awarded to photon-detecting quantum pioneersFrench physicist Serge Haroche and American physicist David Wineland shared the 2012 Nobel physics prize for their work on quantum optics.
Go west, young mountain lion: California offers lush habitat, easy preyThe findings ran counter to the expectations of researchers, who thought the cougars would have moved eastward from California to Nevada, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.
Private rocket glitch: SpaceX launch anomaly won't scrap missionThe Falcon 9 is designed to withstand such an engine loss and still complete its mission, SpaceX officials said.
US, French scientists awarded Nobel Prize in physicsDavid Wineland and Serge Haroche will share this year's Nobel prize for their work in quantum physics.
100-million-year-old fossil reveals ancient spider attack in progressThe piece of amber, which contains 15 intact strands of spider silk, provides the first fossil evidence of such an assault, the researchers said.
SpaceX set to launch with cargo for International Space StationThe first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center Sunday evening. From the space station crew's standpoint, some of the most precious cargo could well be ice cream.
