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- Pentagon seeks cheap, disposable satellites to observe battlefields
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency lab plans to launch a fleet of disposable satellites to provide images for troops fighting on the ground.
- Tiny particles send a message for the first time
Scientists have used neutrinos to send a message. This may be the first step toward a new form of communication.
- How did the moon get there? NASA videos explain.
Images captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been used to create an animated 4-billion-year history of the moon.
- Study: Psychic ability doesn't hold up
A new study supports skeptics of psychic abilities. Researchers failed to find evidence to support claims that extrasensory perception is real.
- New frog species calls New York City home
The Big Apple is home to a newly discovered species of frog. It doesn't have a name yet, but its distinct DNA and unusual croak distinguish it from other frogs.
- Five-rocket launch to edge of space delayed by radio glitch
The malfunction was detected as scientists prepared for the late-night launch rocket launches, which were scheduled to blast off within about five minutes of one another at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.
- Survey: Galaxies become cannibals as teens
Billions of years after the Big Bang, adolescent galaxies seem to be snacking on smaller galaxies.
- New human species discovered? How China fossils could redefine 'human'
Scientists have recently dated and described fossils from what may be a new species of hominid, the Red Deer Cave people. The discovery could shed new light on emergence of humankind in East Asia.
- Possible new human species unearthed in China
Scientists in China have found what may be a new species of human. Fossils show a group of people with similarities to and differences from modern humans.
- Why NASA will fire five rockets in five minutes
NASA is probing the jet stream with a rocket show that could be visible on the East Coast Wednesday night.
- Life on Mars: Could fossil record be trapped in ancient lake mud?
A team of scientists from Brown University found that only 79 lake beds contained deposits of minerals that hint at clays on the surface.
- Venus, Jupiter to put on rare spectacle
The planets Venus and Jupiter will align on Monday and Tuesday night, appearing just 3 degrees apart in the western sky.
- First dinosaur fossil discovered in Spain much newer than thought
Unearthed in 1987, Aragosaurus ischiaticus, roamed what is now Spain some 130 million years ago. Using fossilized pollen, paleontologists have calculated that it lived about 15 million years later than previously thought.
- Jupiter and Venus to dance together this week
Beginning tonight, the two brightest planets in the sky will be so close together that you'll be able to block both of them out with a few fingers held at arm's length.
- Sun continues to spew
The sun continues its active streak this week, spitting out yet another solar flare from the same region that produced two powerful eruptions this week.
- Solar flares: Be glad you're on Earth, not Mars
The recent solar flares provide a dramatic backdrop for a study that shows Mars gets far more of its atmosphere stripped away by solar storms than does Earth. Thank you, magnetosphere.
- The dinosaur that dressed like Anna Wintour
Gliding through trees in what is now China some 130 million years ago, the microraptor sported shimmering black feathers, a new study reveals.
- Asteroid 2012 DA14 definitely won't hit Earth. So why are people freaking out?
Asteroid 2012 DA14 is scheduled to whiz past our planet with a comfortable 17,000 miles of clearance. So why all the gloom and doom?
- James Cameron to go into the deep for film and science
This month, filmmaker James Cameron plans to lead the second trip to the deepest place on Earth. He aims to collect samples for science, as well as video footage.
- Why are there so many solar flares these days?
Solar flares are ten million times more powerful than a volcanic explosion on earth. They increase in frequency during the solar maximum phase of the sun's 11-year cycle. This cycle is expected to peak in 2013.