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Oceans, plants help put the brakes on global warming, study findsEarth's oceans and plants are now absorbing more than twice the amount of carbon dioxide that they soaked up in 1960, helping to slow global warming, a new study has found.
Microsoft and NASA team up for Curiosity Mars rover Xbox gameA free game for Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect allows players to pilot NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to the surface of the Red Planet.
Mars Curiosity Rover soon to be available as a Hot Wheels toyMattel has recreated a 1:64 scale miniature of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Saturday night, a part of the company's line of Hot Wheel toy cars. The die-cast replica will hit stores in September.
Where to watch Curiosity's Mars landing? Times Square.It's not New Year's Eve, but just beneath the ball's usual spot sits a screen which will feature NASA's coverage of the landing of its Mars probe, Curiosity, on Sunday night. Other sites around the country will also provide viewings of the landing.
NASA's Curiosity rover completes crucial course correction en route to MarsNASA's car sized Curiosity Mars Science Lab fired its thrusters to set in on course for its scheduled touchdown in the Red Planet's Gale Crater, where, if the landing goes well, it will begin searching for signs of habitability.
'Star Trek' actors star in new Mars rover landing videosWilliam Shatner and Wil Wheaton, the 'Star Trek' icons who portrayed Captain Kirk and Wesley Crusher, appear in two new NASA videos promoting the Curiosity Mars rover, which is scheduled to land on Mars on Aug. 5.
How livable is the Red Planet? NASA's Curiosity Mars rover seeks to find out.NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Sunday night, will look for water molecules, measure radiation levels, and seek other signs of habitability.
Unmanned Russian cargo ship undocks from space stationAfter its automated docking system failed the first time, the Russian Progress 47 cargo ship successfully passed its second test on Saturday. Now it has un-docked, and is scheduled to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
- Five essential facts about NASA's Mars Curiosity rover
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another world. Here are five facts about NASA's most audacious robotic mission yet.
When did modern culture begin?Researchers have found new evidence of modern culture's beginnings in a cave in South Africa. These findings may indicate that 'modern behavior as we know it' has existed for longer than previously thought.
Curiosity's Mars exploration: Is it worth the money?The search for life on Mars has captivated the imaginations of many, but it is costly. Some say it's time to cut spending on NASA's Mars missions, while others say the research is important in the quest for understanding the 'meaning of life.'
- Start date for human civilization moved back 20,000 years or so
An analysis of artifacts found in a South African cave reveals that humans were making tools, beads, and even poison some 20,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Colossal human sculpture unearthed in TurkeyArchaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an enormous stone sculpture of a Neo-Hittite warrior-king daring from the first millennium B.C.
- Mars rover 'hardest NASA robotic mission ever attempted,' says NASA
At 10:30 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, the one-ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity rover is scheduled to touch down on Mars, in what experts are calling a risky landing.
Apollo landing flags still fluttering in lunar breezeOr at least they would be if the moon had an atmosphere, which it doesn't. New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera reveal that some of the American flags planted during the Apollo missions of the 1970s are still standing.
NASA's $2.5 billion Mars rover faces tricky landingThe one-ton Curiosity Mars rover is designed arrive on Mars using a supersonic parachute and a first-of-its-kind 'sky crane,' in what experts are calling a risky maneuver.
- Mars Curiosity rover to seek signs of life on Red Planet
In a week, if the landing goes as planned, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will be looking for signs of methane and other organic compounds in the atmosphere and the soil, which could turn up new clues in the search for life there.
Huge landslides spotted on tiny moonScientist studying Saturn's icy moon of Iapetus have detected several 50-mile-long landslides, a phenomenon that they attribute to flash heating.
What is a 'blue moon' anyway?August 31 will arrive with a blue moon, and it won't happen again for three years. What exactly is a blue moon? And where did it get its name?
How hot is it this summer? One of the three hottest since 1950 so far.Temperatures in June and the first week of July make this summer so far one of the top-three in the continental United States since 1950, say meteorologists.
