| Earth losing roughly 150 billion tons of ice to oceans annually Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie from 2003-2010, a new study has revealed.
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| Google Earth helps keep tabs on exploitative fish farms Google Earth can be a powerful tool to keep tabs on a growing industry like ocean fish farming, given its tendency to exploit scarce resources and climate change, a study reveals.
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| Antarctica's underground lake could hold clues for life on other planets After more than two decades of drilling, Russian scientists have reached the pristine surface of a gigantic freshwater lake - Lake Vostok in Antarctica - which they believe could hold life from the... |
| 'Stealth merger' of dwarf galaxies captured New images of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy have revealed a dense stream of stars in its outer regions, the remains of an even smaller companion galaxy in the process of merging with its host,... |
| Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet... |
| Giant Milky Way Black Hole Vaporizes Planets and Asteroids A black hole in the Milky Way is gobbling up asteroids, and may have vaporized some planets, according to new data gleaned from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite. Sagittarius A*, the... |
| Earth's Polar Ice Melting Less Than Thought Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, and mountaintops annually-which is actually less than previous estimates, according to new research by scientists at... |
| Galactic Black Hole Eats Asteroids For Breakfast – Really Astronomers have known for at least a decade that a super-massive black hole lives at the center of our galaxy. But now they think they know what it eats.The Chandra X-ray Observatory has recorded... |
| TV's Stephen Colbert Stars in NASA Video for Space Fans Faux political pundit and TV funnyman Stephen Colbert recently expressed his love for space via a PSA video extolling the virtues of NASA. "NASA is doing great things at the International... |
| A Penny for Mars: US Coin Riding NASA Rover to Red Planet A penny in today's economy does not go very far, but that has not stopped NASA from making a 1-cent piece stretch all the way to another planet: Mars. ... |
| VLT Takes Most Detailed Infrared Image of the Carina Nebula ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular... |
| NASA Satellites Show How Our Icy World Is Melting The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 18 inches (46 centimeters) of... |
| Must-See Close Encounters of the Planet Kind Occur This Week There are two interesting meet-ups in space for skywatchers this week: close encounters between the moon, several planets and stars. The movements of the... |
| Alien Life May Not Survive on Planets With Uranus-Like Tilts If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher. However, the advent of milder seasons did more than... |
| Small Twisted Galaxy Warped by Galactic 'Stealth Merger' The dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the first dwarf galaxy with an identified stellar stream (faintly seen at the lower right, and in inset). The star stream represents the remains of a smaller satellite... |
| Mars and the Moon Have Night Sky Rendezvous Thursday This sky map shows how the moon and Mars will appear together at 9 p.m. local time on Feb. 9, 2012 in the eastern sky as seen from mid-northern... |
| How To Land On A Comet Europe's Rosetta mission ultimate goal is to shadow Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for 2 years and deploy its lander on to the icy nucleus. The science it will send back is set to deliver the... |
| Twisted galaxy warped by 'stealth merger' The dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the first dwarf galaxy with an identified stellar stream (faintly seen at the lower right, and in inset). The star stream represents the remains of a smaller satellite... |
| Report advises NASA to join Euclid mission WASHINGTON — NASA should contribute $20 million worth of hardware to Europe's planned Euclid dark-energy observatory, but only "in the context of a strong U.S. commitment"... |
| Close encounters for moon, planets and stars There are two interesting meet-ups in space for skywatchers this week: close encounters between the moon, several planets and stars. The movements of the... |
| Samsung Galaxy Note: anything but a 'me too' device This hybrid tablet/smartphone mobile device launching in Canada next week was advertised during the Super Bowl for its stylus accessory. But the outstanding feature is definitely the beautiful... |
| NASA Pursues Next Phase of Space Taxi Program; Selected Firms to Get $300 Million to $500 Million NASA 's spaceship development program enters its third phase by offering funding for firms to design and build space transport systems for ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space... |
| NASA dangles big bucks for space taxi designers NASA is looking for at least two US firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers said on Tuesday.NASA plans to invest $300... |
| Nazis From The Moon Invade Earth In Crowdsourced Sci-Fi Epic 'Iron Sky' , which looks to be just a straight up, awesome action movie with the best premise ever: in 1945, a bunch of Nazis made it to the Moon. Since then, they’ve been preapring for their revenge... |
| Earth's next supercontinent dubbed Amasia, when to expect it Supercontinents are giant landmasses made up of more than one continental core. The best-known supercontinent, Pangaea, was once the world's only continent -- it was on it that the dinosaurs... |
| NASA goes commercial in its quest for extra space taxis NASA seeks alternative ways to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Recent problems with Russia's Soyuz vehicles has shown a need for more space... |
| NASA satellites reveal colossal ice melt, greenhouse gasses blamed The average yearly change in mass, in centimeters of water, during 2003-2010, for all the world's glaciers and ice caps (excluding Greenland & Antarctica). Glaciated regions with large ice... |
| Janice Voss, shuttle astronaut, remembered for NASA contributions Janice Voss began her NASA career while still a student at Purdue University. Janice Voss was one of six women to fly at least five times on the space... |
| Phoenix Suns deploy Galaxy Tab 10.1 for use on and off the court Computerworld - The Phoenix Suns have deployed more than 100 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets over Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network for use by the team's business personnel, players and... |
| Roger Boisjoly, who tried to stop the space shuttle Challenger launch, has died space shuttle Challenger exploding over the Atlantic just moments after liftoff is an indelible one. And as many have long known, the crash could have been avoided had the worries of some engineers--... |
| Scientists melt mystery over icecaps and sea levels SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. scientists using satellite data have established a more accurate figure of the amount of annual sea level rise from melting glaciers and ice caps which should aid... |
| NASA calls for new taxis to fly to Space Station CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers... |
| Turtle Feeding Hotspots Found in the Gulf of Mexico Satellite tracking of a threatened species of sea turtle has revealed two new feeding hotspots in the Gulf of Mexico that are an important habitat for at least three separate populations of the... |
| Solar Telescope Instrument Gets Recycled for New Mission A powerful solar instrument that scientists once used to create a colorful reconstruction of the sun's light is now taking a cross country trek to a new observatory for its new mission:... |
| Hidden Secrets of Majestic Nebula Revealed in New Photo The most detailed image yet of the well-known Carina nebula has been caught by a European telescope, unveiling previously hidden features of an exquisite star nursery. The European Southern... |
| Den Tandt: Census shows Ontario no longer centre of Canadian universe Ontario is dying. It's a slow dissolution, rather than a precipitous or cataclysmic decline. It has taken years to set in and will continue to unfold for years to come. But the pattern in the... |
| NASA wants space taxis NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers said on Tuesday.NASA plans to invest $300... |
| Former astronaut Janice Voss dies Janice Voss, former NASA astronaut and one of only six women to go into space five times, has died in Arizona, her alma mater Purdue University reported. Voss, 55, died Monday in Scottsdale where... |
