Provides the latest RSS feeds for Space Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Herald Globe.com http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/cat/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 22:01:21 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:01:21 -0400 30 A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214739917/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214739917/scat/89d96798a39564bd Actress Alice Eve says she believes aliens are real and astronauts have seen them. The actress said her "Star Trek Into Darkness" director J.J. Abrams was once told by an astronaut that he had come across extra terrestrials in space. "JJ said he sat next to an astronaut once who had told him that he had seen 'forms or shapes' that make him believe in alien life which you know is really scary. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214732685/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 04:20:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214732685/scat/89d96798a39564bd A major campaign using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other satellites has suggested that exotic neutron stars, magnetars may be more diverse-and common-than previously thought. Magnetars-the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation-are some of the most extreme objects known in the universe. When a massive star runs out of fuel, its ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214731135/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 01:30:02 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214731135/scat/89d96798a39564bd New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214730650/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40:02 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214730650/scat/89d96798a39564bd Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214728960/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214728960/scat/89d96798a39564bd Google and Time magazine have stitched together satellite images collected by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, showcasing developments in our planet's landscape via time-lapse. NBC's Rehema Ellis ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214751369/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 21:13:51 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214751369/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA says that a radiator leak on the power system of the International Space Station, 200 miles above Earth, is serious but not life-threatening. Engineers are working to re-route electronics to avoid the leak and as of now, there are no emergency plans to evacuate the crew of six, including two American ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214751368/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 21:13:50 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214751368/scat/89d96798a39564bd Paula Broadwell told WSOC-TV in Charlotte on Thursday (http://bit.ly/10RjHXE ) that she credited her husband and friends for standing by her as she rebuilds her life six months after her relationship with the married Petraeus was revealed by an FBI investigation and ignited a political firestorm. TV crews camped out front of her family home for days and Broadwell went into seclusion. The couple ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749704/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 19:54:24 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749704/scat/89d96798a39564bd law enforcement will narrow their search around Dayton on Saturday for 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard. Authorities say they're focusing on terrain that's difficult to navigate and requires specialized skills and equipment, so citizen volunteers are not needed. Residents are encouraged to check their rural properties for anything suspicious. Police ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749703/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 19:54:23 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749703/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio addresses the media about a simulated school shooting in Fountain Hills, Arizona, February 9, 2013. REUTERS/Darryl ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749705/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 19:54:22 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749705/scat/89d96798a39564bd Kosovo (Reuters) - Kosovo has launched a campaign to seize wild bears held in restaurants and private zoos, responding to concerns over dwindling numbers in the Balkan country's mountainous border areas. Authorities have so far traced at least 15 caged bears held in restaurants to help lure customers, to the outrage ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749706/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 19:54:20 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749706/scat/89d96798a39564bd FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end its work, putting more than 1,000 workers out of high-paying jobs with benefits. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749707/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 19:54:18 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749707/scat/89d96798a39564bd Skywatcher Maxim Senin turned his camera on the crowd of people gathered at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles to view the annular solar eclipse, May 20, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749529/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 19:02:35 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749529/scat/89d96798a39564bd News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13.7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology. Join the adventure ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749527/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 18:59:33 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749527/scat/89d96798a39564bd The holiday weekend and unofficial start of summer will kick off Friday night with some good skywatching: a closer-than-usual full moon, and rare a planetary cluster. Because it's within a day of lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth for the month - the moon will be about 17,000 miles closer than average. That qualifies it as a "supermoon." Rising at 8:09 p.m. in ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749272/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 18:37:53 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749272/scat/89d96798a39564bd Two images from the test of a E-Cat deviceperformed on Nov. 20th 2012. Credit: Levi, Foschi et al. Cold fusion has been called one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs that might likely never happen. On the surface, it seems simple - a room-temperature reaction occurring under normal pressure. But it is ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749531/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 18:37:32 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749531/scat/89d96798a39564bd Pavlof Volcano has been erupting for over a week, releasing a humongous plume of ash, steam, and smoke visible from the International Space Station. The eruption has quieted down, but seismic data suggests that it's not ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749528/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 18:25:32 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214749528/scat/89d96798a39564bd A 3D printer is slated to arrive at the International Space Station next year, where it will crank out the first parts ever manufactured off planet Earth. The company Made in Space is partnering with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748581/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 17:53:31 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748581/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA officials confirmed this week that the space agency awarded $125,000 to the Austin, Texas-based company Systems and Materials Research Consultancy (SMRC) to study how to make nutritious and ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748580/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 17:53:31 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748580/scat/89d96798a39564bd Leonardo DiCaprio. Off to space next year. A wealthy Russian oligarch living in Monaco spent over a million dollars to sit -- and then float -- alongside him while they orbit the planet in a Virgin Galactic space ship. This is one easy how-to article. How do you get to go into outerspace with an A-lister, in this case Leonardo DiCaprio? Well, first you have to be go to the Cannes Film Festival ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747649/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 17:45:27 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747649/scat/89d96798a39564bd A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed … President Barack Obama will travel to Oklahoma City on Sunday "to see first-hand the response to the devastating tornadoes and severe weather" that ravaged the area, meet with families affected by the devastation, and thank emergency responders, the White House ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747645/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 17:38:21 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747645/scat/89d96798a39564bd CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets in the sky this month, will be joined by tiny Mercury for a rare celestial show this ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748577/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 17:31:51 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748577/scat/89d96798a39564bd By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/24/2013 12:46 PM EDT on SPACE.com The moon will take the smallest of dips through the Earth's shadow in a minor eclipse tonight (May 24) and you can watch the lunar event live online via a webcast. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748578/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 17:28:55 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214748578/scat/89d96798a39564bd This flight simulator modeled from the Viper spacecraft featured in the Battlestar Galactica television show can flip and spin completely in any ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747454/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:44:35 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747454/scat/89d96798a39564bd A trio of bright planets is shining together in the sunset sky, a must-see night sky sight for stargazers this Memorial Day weekend. Three planets ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747453/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:44:34 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747453/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities, representing the seeds of all future structure: ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747452/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:44:34 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747452/scat/89d96798a39564bd The famous Ring Nebula is shown here in striking detail, in a composite image made from images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and infrared data from telescopes on ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747455/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:43 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214747455/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Reuters/Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama signs a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal commemorating the lives of the four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746386/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:29:18 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746386/scat/89d96798a39564bd During sunset on Saturday, three planets will form a bright cluster in the western sky known as the Dance of the Planets. Venus, Jupiter and Mars -- the brightest planets visible on Earth -- will move into a triangle only three degrees wide. The triple conjunction of planets is fairly rare. The last time the three bright planets aligned in that formation was on May 9, 2011. According to NASA, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746557/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:54 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746557/scat/89d96798a39564bd Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations that he was seen on a cellphone video smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. "I do not use crack cocaine," Ford told a jam-packed news conference at Toronto City Hall. "Nor am I an addict of crack cocaine." The beleaguered mayor said it was "business as usual at city hall" and gave no indication that he ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746736/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:51 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746736/scat/89d96798a39564bd ST. LOUIS (AP) - A southwestern Illinois judge already under scrutiny after a colleague died of a cocaine overdose at his family's hunting lodge was charged Friday with possession of heroin and guns. Wearing cutoff shorts and a T-shirt with the slogan "Bad is my middle name," St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook pleaded not guilty to federal counts of possessing heroin ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746274/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 15:20:34 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746274/scat/89d96798a39564bd the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said Friday without explaining what the condition was, though they did say repair work was done last month in the area of the crash. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214745053/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 15:17:29 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214745053/scat/89d96798a39564bd the average IQ in Western nations dropped by a staggering 14.1 points over the past century. "We tested the hypothesis that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study," ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214745054/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 15:17:28 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214745054/scat/89d96798a39564bd . This weekend, three planets will nestle together in the western sky at twilight to form a rarely seen glowing triangle. With good timing and a bit of luck you should be able to see it without a telescope. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter have been converging in the sky in the past month and will form their tightest clump on Sunday, May 26. This triple conjunction — visible from most of North ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214745293/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:15 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214745293/scat/89d96798a39564bd This intriguing space wallpaper reveals the spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944. The image was released on May 23, 2013 to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESO's Very Large Telescope. This photo also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula. These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746168/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:11 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746168/scat/89d96798a39564bd The moon will take the smallest of dips through the Earth's shadow in a minor eclipse tonight (May 24) and you can watch the lunar event live online via a webcast. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744827/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 14:21:41 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744827/scat/89d96798a39564bd By Megan Gannon, Space.com Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744823/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 14:18:03 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744823/scat/89d96798a39564bd /enpproperty--> The world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture radio telescope, which already is under construction in a natural basin in Pingtang county, Guizhou province, is becoming part of a more ambitious business plan. Local governments plans to invest 4.9 billion yuan ($799 million) to build new towns around the telescope to develop astronomical tourism, China Daily ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744828/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 14:11:33 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744828/scat/89d96798a39564bd Techworld , the police commissioner in Australia's New South Wales, Andrew Scipione, has issued a warning after his officers tested one of the firearms--dubbed the "Liberator"--and experienced a "catastrophic misfire" (no one was seriously injured). According to the website, the NSW police used blueprints created by Defense Distributed to make two pistols that took 27 ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743711/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 14:05:55 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743711/scat/89d96798a39564bd raw footage of the first 10 minutes of the Moore, Okla., tornado that gives viewers a harrowing sense of what the EF5 twister looked like. As cars and trucks zoom past, Chance Coldiron and Justin Cox's camera focuses on the dark grey funnel as it touches down. The tornado then tightens and begins to pick up debris. After a few minutes, someone can be heard saying, "It hit a ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743712/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 14:05:54 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743712/scat/89d96798a39564bd Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years show that cold gas to power stars spirals into the cores of galaxies along spiral ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744825/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 13:59:49 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744825/scat/89d96798a39564bd An artist’s conception of the Curiosity spacecraft landing on Mars. Credit: NASA Is it just us, or has there been a lot — a LOT — of talk about getting humans to Mars ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744830/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 13:55:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744830/scat/89d96798a39564bd Ellie Arroway searching the skies for radio transmissions. But what about looking in other ways? Perhaps a highly advanced alien civilisation might build structures large enough for us to ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744831/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 13:55:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744831/scat/89d96798a39564bd SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey (Reuters) - The New Jersey shore ushered in the unofficial start of summer on Friday, with businesses making last-minute preparations and officials declaring the resort towns ready for visitors seven months after Superstorm ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744185/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 13:55:25 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214744185/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); This view shows a close up of toward the south polar region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and show a depression within the moon's orange and blue haze layers near the south pole. NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped the image on Sept. 11, 2011 and it was released on Dec. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743458/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 13:08:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743458/scat/89d96798a39564bd An M5-class flare erupted on the Sun on May 22nd, 2013 and magnetic fields worked their magic with super-heated plasma. The flare is seen in a combination of extreme ultraviolet light (at 171 and 304 Angstroms) by NASA's Solar Dynamics ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743457/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 13:08:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743457/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A bystander checks the debris around a row of burnt cars in the suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Fredrik ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214742189/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 12:52:30 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214742189/scat/89d96798a39564bd Image: KSCs Launch Complex 39 is strategically located next to a barge site and a variety of structures, including a Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), Orbiter Processing Facilities (OPF), Press Site, Launch Control Center (LCC), and a crawlerway to the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743452/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 12:42:58 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743452/scat/89d96798a39564bd Three evening planets - Jupiter, Venus and Mercury — on May 23, 2013 at about 9pm CDT, as see from Salem, Missouri. The photographer noted a fourth planet is also visible in this photo: Earth! Credit and copyright: Joe Shuster. Images are starting to come in of the bright planetary conjunction in the western sky at dusk! Jupiter, Venus and Mercury are snuggling up together, and we’ve ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743460/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 12:42:40 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743460/scat/89d96798a39564bd On May 23, NASA hosted a Google+ Hangout from the Johnson Space Center with three recently returned International Space Station Astronauts. NASA astronauts Kevin Ford, Tom Marshburn and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield answered questions about daily living in a weightless environment, all the scientific research they did, the spacewalk conducted by Marshburn, how they hope they ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743461/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 12:42:39 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743461/scat/89d96798a39564bd The cloud cover from Hurricane Sandy interacting with the long line of clouds associated with the cold front approaching the eastern U.S., is pictured in this image that was created combining NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite imagery, taken on October 27, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it comes ashore on Monday night, bringing ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743462/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 12:41:32 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214743462/scat/89d96798a39564bd Rosario Dawson, Harvey Weinstein and Jessica Chastain chat about possible auction items at the amfAR Gala in Cannes - while Milla Jovovich and Heidi Klum discuss the jewelry thefts during the film ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740764/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:55:31 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740764/scat/89d96798a39564bd May 24, 2013 11:35 AM ET "Wow, this is beautiful," says Thundercat. The West Coast bass wizard (born Stephen Bruner) looks out on Toronto's Lake Ontario, sparkling in the late-afternoon spring sunshine, during a brief break before an opening set for his friend, label boss and frequent musical co-conspirator Flying Lotus. He hasn't exactly had a ton of time lately to slow down ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741829/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:15 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741829/scat/89d96798a39564bd ATLANTA - Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.Atlanta Fire Rescue Department spokeswoman Janet Ward says the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Friday. She says it's not immediately clear what caused the accident.Ward says there were 18 people on the bus at the time of the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740996/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:24 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740996/scat/89d96798a39564bd is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She worked for NASA to design the next generation of space suits. They were actually surprisingly lightweight and mobile. With some color changes they would not look so different from the suits in the new Star Trek movie. Sadly, this is one of many projects that NASA started ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740081/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:44:11 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740081/scat/89d96798a39564bd President Barack Obama speaks at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement ceremony in Annapolis, Md., May 24, 2013. … President Barack Obama on Friday warned that sexual assault in the military amounts to a national security threat as he enlisted graduating Navy ensigns and Marines second lieutenants at the U.S. Naval Academy in a campaign to stamp it out. "Those who commit sexual assault ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741818/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:36:32 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741818/scat/89d96798a39564bd A life-sized Lego model of a Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter arrives in New York City before heading to California's Legoland. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740973/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:36:20 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740973/scat/89d96798a39564bd The world's largest LEGO model, a massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship, was displayed in New York's Times Square Thursday. The spectacular structure consists of more than 5.3 million of the company's multi-colored plastic ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741831/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:45 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741831/scat/89d96798a39564bd In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a rear/side view of the Linear Aerospike SR Experiment (LASRE) pod on NASA SR-71, tail number 844 is shown. This photo was taken during the fit-check of the pod on Feb. 15, 1996, at Lockheed Martin Skunkworks in Palmdale, California. The LASRE experiment was designed to provide in-flight data to help Lockheed Martin evaluate the aerodynamic ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741827/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:44 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741827/scat/89d96798a39564bd Surveillance of the police variety is strictly for professionals. But humble backyard stargazers have carried out a cosmic stakeout on an unpredictable star system, Cygni SS, which periodically explodes. The result is a measurement of its distance from Earth that bests one made by NASA's Hubble telescope - and shores up the leading mechanism for the process that lights up the most common ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741832/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:48 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214741832/scat/89d96798a39564bd ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An American man accused of killing his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic was arrested after fleeing to the United ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740476/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:11:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740476/scat/89d96798a39564bd LONDON (AP) -- Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740475/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 11:11:00 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214740475/scat/89d96798a39564bd From the studio that put Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit may now come a movie about the real-life seamstresses who traded sewing brassieres for stitching Neil Armstrong's lunar ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214739830/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 10:37:09 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214739830/scat/89d96798a39564bd KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday setting off explosions and battling the security ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214739201/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 10:36:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214739201/scat/89d96798a39564bd KABUL (Reuters) - Several large explosions rocked a busy area in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday with Reuters witnesses describing shooting in the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738223/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 09:37:19 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738223/scat/89d96798a39564bd Left to right: Joseph McAuliffe, Bill Clinton and Terry McAuliffe. (Facebook.com) Terry McAuliffe, a Democratic operative embroiled in a tight race to become Virginia's next governor, knows a thing or two about conservatives like his Republican opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. That's in part because his older brother, Joseph McAuliffe, spent two decades as a ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214737474/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:53:48 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214737474/scat/89d96798a39564bd By Dominic Evans TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the attackers accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214737475/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:53:47 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214737475/scat/89d96798a39564bd , in permafrost - permanently frozen ground - on Ellesmere Island. The organism thrives at 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius), and holds clues to adaptations that might be necessary ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738138/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738138/scat/89d96798a39564bd North America will be well positioned to see a lunar eclipse late tonight (May 24), but it might not be worth waiting up for. During this ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738137/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738137/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON - The United States' electrical transmission grid can be a fragile thing. Sewage treatment plants, water filtration services and other key utilities rely on the grid to power their facilities. But some officials and experts worry that ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738139/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738139/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); Artist's concept of Kepler-10b, which was detected by NASA's Kepler mission. Kepler scientists say it's the first "unquestionably rocky" alien planet ever ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738140/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:00 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214738140/scat/89d96798a39564bd Zoom In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214737129/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 08:05:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214737129/scat/89d96798a39564bd Russian Academy of Sciences , told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214736030/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 07:05:48 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214736030/scat/89d96798a39564bd HONG KONG (Reuters) - The H7N9 bird flu virus may be capable of spreading from human to human and can be transmitted not only through direct contact but also through airborne exposure, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214736129/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 06:55:28 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214736129/scat/89d96798a39564bd The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is predicting an active hurricane season for 2013. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane season forecast is projecting an active hurricane season, the Tampa Bay Business Journal reports. NOAA projected a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms in 2013, of which anywhere from seven to 11 could become hurricanes, and ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214736543/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 06:30:51 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214736543/scat/89d96798a39564bd Jodi Arias ' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, "Sorry." The silent gesture offered a glimpse into what was likely a tense few days inside the deliberations room as the jury finally determined ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214735245/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 06:13:17 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214735245/scat/89d96798a39564bd ISLAMABAD (AP) -- President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones to kill Islamic militants was well-received in two countries most affected by the strikes - Pakistan and Yemen - but criticism of the U.S. policy remains ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214735383/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 05:47:57 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214735383/scat/89d96798a39564bd LONDON -; Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat terror attacks after the slaying of a young soldier, adding some 1,200 police to potential trouble ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214733749/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15:00 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214733749/scat/89d96798a39564bd GREENVILLE, Calif. -; An earthquake in far northeastern California was felt by thousands of people as far away as San Francisco and in two other states, but there have been no reports of injury or serious ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214734625/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 05:15:00 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214734625/scat/89d96798a39564bd By Megan Gannon, Space.com Three astronauts who recently spent months together aboard the International Space Station reunited on Earth on Thursday during ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214734933/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 05:10:34 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214734933/scat/89d96798a39564bd Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.While NASA has no plans to return humans to the lunar surface anytime soon, private industry is eyeing Earth's nearest neighbor intently, said Robert Bigelow, the founder and president ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214734936/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 05:10:32 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214734936/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri May 24, 2013 5:00am EDT LONDON May 24 (Reuters) - A British Airways plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow on Friday after a technical fault in an engine. "The BA762, Heathrow to Oslo service, returned back to Heathrow shortly after take-off due to a technical fault," BA parent company IAG said. The Airbus A319 aircraft was carrying 75 ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214735817/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:19 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214735817/scat/89d96798a39564bd replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday, May 23, 2013, that he has selected a new acting head of the division, staying within the IRS to find new leadership. (AP Photo/J. Scott ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214732606/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 04:07:20 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214732606/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214732678/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 04:02:13 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214732678/scat/89d96798a39564bd KATMANDU, Nepal – A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain. Bad weather on Mount Kanchenjunga was hampering a search and preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp. Mountaineering Department official Dipendra Poudel said Friday the climbers were descending from the summit when they were believed to have ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214731663/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:17 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214731663/scat/89d96798a39564bd GREENVILLE (AP) — An earthquake that struck Northern California’s Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 was felt by residents of ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214731439/scat/89d96798a39564bd Fri, 24 May 2013 01:23:35 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214731439/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster - President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729464/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:20 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729464/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Reuters/Reuters - The moon is pictured above Earth in this handout photo courtesy of Col. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency. REUTERS/CSA/Col. Chris ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729039/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:19 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729039/scat/89d96798a39564bd CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729466/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:47:27 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729466/scat/89d96798a39564bd 2013 Atlantic hurricane outlook on Thursday, with a warning that the United States could be hit by up to six major hurricanes this year. The seasonal average is three. Oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Atlantic basin are expected to create stronger and more hurricanes, setting the stage for an ';above normal and extremely active'; season, said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729471/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:46:29 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729471/scat/89d96798a39564bd PASADENA, Calif. -- Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden on Thursday inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729472/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:43:06 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214729472/scat/89d96798a39564bd PETALUMA, California -- "What do you want, America? Do you want an asteroid? If you want it, I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down for you," promises the US space agency's latest project, channeling Jimmy Stewart's famous moon speech in the the classic romance "It's a Wonderful Life." OK, that wasn't the exact wording. The reasoning was more: ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214728868/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 21:06:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214728868/scat/89d96798a39564bd ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) -- A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214728202/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 20:56:59 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214728202/scat/89d96798a39564bd Officials collected 770 entries between April 20-21 from more than 9,000 people in 83 cities around the world for this year's International Space Apps ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727974/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 19:57:43 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727974/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Jodi Arias addresses the jury during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727070/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:06 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727070/scat/89d96798a39564bd , Nicholas de Monchaux’s book about the Playtex design team behind the Apollo outerwear. The book, released in 2011, ';tells the story of the 21-layer spacesuit in 21 chapters addressing 21 topics relevant to the suit, the body, and the technology of the 20th century.'; It also somehow manages to weave in details about cyborgs, latex, John F. Kennedy’s image, and a little ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727161/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 19:39:12 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727161/scat/89d96798a39564bd LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727142/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 19:32:56 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727142/scat/89d96798a39564bd Boys Scout Alex Derr speaks out against anit-gay rules during the Equal Scouting Summit Press Conference being held near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. The boxes in front of Derr hold petitions calling for the Boy Scouts of America to end its anti-gay policies. (AP Photo/LM ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727845/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 19:26:30 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727845/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA released a dramatic and revealing image of an erupting Alaskan volcano Thursday taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The photograph is of the Pavlof Volcano, located in the Aleutian Arc about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage, the space agency said. The oblique perspective of the photo taken from the ISS when it was about 475 miles south-southeast of the volcano ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727783/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 19:24:31 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214727783/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); Astronauts (L to R) Kevin Ford, Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield take part in an online chat on the social media platform Google+, May 23, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726838/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:48 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726838/scat/89d96798a39564bd solar storm , seeing a supercharged aurora becomes a distinct possibility. Astronomers are not quite sure why, but the time around the equinoxes seems to be the best times of the year to see the northern ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726837/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:48 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726837/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thursday23 May 20133:16 p.m. Las Vegans are used to seeing passenger planes, fighter jets and helicopters crisscrossing the congested skies. Next year, if you make the extra effort, you could also see a spacecraft. Aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow unveiled plans Thursday for a craft known as The Guide. He gave few details but described it as a "flight-like testing unit" that is ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726417/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:44:23 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726417/scat/89d96798a39564bd DALLAS - The Boy Scouts of America, one of the country's largest and oldest youth organizations, decided Thursday to break 103 years of tradition by allowing openly gay members into its ranks. The controversial move was approved by more than 60 percent of the approximate 1,400 votes cast by the BSA's national council. According to the new resolution, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, "no ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726841/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:32:53 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726841/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster - IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726829/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:32:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726829/scat/89d96798a39564bd NEW YORK (AP) -- A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726830/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:32:51 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726830/scat/89d96798a39564bd NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new twist on the Ring Nebula, a cosmic object so iconic it's a popular illustration for astronomy books. Hubble has revealed the true shape of the nebula, the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star, the space agency reported Thursday. The nebula's apparent ring shape is a result of perspective but the Hubble images ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726842/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 18:12:26 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214726842/scat/89d96798a39564bd Karen Nyberg , the European Space Agency's Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin officially launch on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 28, the American astronaut will bring a few key creative items with ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725493/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:22 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725493/scat/89d96798a39564bd Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon. While NASA has no plans to return humans to the lunar surface anytime soon, private industry is eyeing Earth's nearest neighbor intently, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725494/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:21 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725494/scat/89d96798a39564bd '); Spaceport America dons its costume for the "After Earth" science fiction film press junket on May 17, 2013. The New Mexico spaceport is the homeport for real-life private space travel by Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, which plans to launch from the site ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725495/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:21 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725495/scat/89d96798a39564bd A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration infrared satellite image of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico. The NOAA is predicting a particularly wild hurricane season. COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, federal forecasters say.Their prediction Thursday calls for 13 to 20 named Atlantic storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725496/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:32:41 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725496/scat/89d96798a39564bd WASHINGTON - Expect another busy Atlantic hurricane season, government forecasters said Thursday.Hurricane season officially begins June 1, and the early forecast predicts 13 to 20 named storms, seven to 11 hurricanes and three to six major hurricanes category three or higher, said Kathryn Sullivan, the acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Last year, four ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725498/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:29:52 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725498/scat/89d96798a39564bd (click image for slideshow) NASA has announced five winners of its second International Space Apps Challenge, a competition that aims to solve challenges on Earth and in space through software, hardware, data visualization and mobile apps. During the event, 770 apps were submitted and 133 were nominated for judging. ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725488/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:28:31 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725488/scat/89d96798a39564bd 23 May 2013 Nasa chief Charles Bolden has inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724536/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:28:22 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724536/scat/89d96798a39564bd By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown again. More than two weeks after Charles Ramsey became an instant folk hero after telling his story to television reporters, Cleveland food blogger Michelle Venorsky said on ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725476/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:19:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725476/scat/89d96798a39564bd Is this the Pittsburgh skyline? (AnthonyWeiner.com) Anthony Weiner's nascent New York City mayoral campaign might have hit a slight snag. Azi Paybarah at Capital New York notes on Thursday that ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725477/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:19:00 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725477/scat/89d96798a39564bd View Photo Associated Press/Nick Ut - NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725501/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:18:59 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214725501/scat/89d96798a39564bd PASADENA, Calif. - Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden checked on the progress Thursday a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes $105 million to jumpstart the mission, which may ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724325/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 17:06:49 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724325/scat/89d96798a39564bd Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723080/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723080/scat/89d96798a39564bd ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An eighth person has pleaded guilty to his role in a $30 million fraud and bribery scheme that duped NASA into awarding contracts to companies that falsely claimed eligibility for preferences granted to minority-owned businesses.On Thursday, 59-year-old Michael Dunkel of Merritt Island, Fla., pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to fraud for illegally receiving more ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723578/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 16:16:37 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723578/scat/89d96798a39564bd HEALTH IN A BOX: We'd like to think that hospitals and medical clinics are places full of light and life-saving equipment. In many parts of the world though they are dark and empty, lacking a reliable source of power, or funds for supplies. The WE CARE Solar suitcase brings a bit of sunshine to those in need. The portable, cost-effective solar suitcases include high-efficiency LED medical task ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746172/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 16:15:00 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214746172/scat/89d96798a39564bd FALL RIVER (CBS) – It’s not everyday you can talk to an astronaut – especially one still in space. Some students at the Talbot Innovation Middle School got that rare chance Thursday, when they interviewed ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723810/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 16:06:42 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723810/scat/89d96798a39564bd Photos recovered from the debris after a tornado swept through Moore, Okla. (Jason Sickles/Yahoo News) MOORE, Okla. -- Some of the photos are crumpled. Others coated in crud. But what the monster tornado couldn't obliterate are the memories captured in the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214722772/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 16:03:58 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214722772/scat/89d96798a39564bd Americans were warned on Thursday to brace for an extremely active hurricane season - less than a year after the devastation of Sandy, which hit the east coast in October 2012 - with 13 to 20 named storms, including seven to ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723075/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 15:53:20 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723075/scat/89d96798a39564bd MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) – Gov. Jerry Brown Thusday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life. Brown, speaking to about 100 people at the Water, Energy and Smart Technology Summit at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, said, "We are really in a war ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723239/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 15:46:47 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214723239/scat/89d96798a39564bd A spectacular image of a stellar nursery has been released to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the world's most advanced optical telescope in Chile. The European Southern Observatory, with headquarters in Germany, published the image of the pink glowing gas cloud known to astronomers as IC 2944 to mark 15 years since it inaugurated the Very Large Telescope at Paranal, Chile. The image is ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724004/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:17 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724004/scat/89d96798a39564bd A Florida girl expelled from school after her science experiment exploded will be going to space camp with the help of a former NASA manager, officials said. Kiera Wilmot, 16, was accused in April of igniting a chemical explosion at her high school, leading to her arrest and suspension from school, but authorities dropped criminal charges last week. News of the incident reached 18-year NASA ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724001/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:17 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214724001/scat/89d96798a39564bd Scientists say they've found bacteria growing in the Canadian arctic at temperatures below freezing, nearly as cold as the surface of Mars. Growing at just 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, the bacterium offers clues about some of the necessary preconditions for microbial life on other worlds, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Mars, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214722846/scat/89d96798a39564bd Thu, 23 May 2013 15:42:16 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214722846/scat/89d96798a39564bd