An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth's orbit. Their obscurity have kept them hidden from surveys designed to detect things that might hit our planet.
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In celebration of Sunday's Academy Awards, we've combed through the last 30 years of movie marketing and selected our 66 favorite film taglines from that period. The cut-off of 1980 means we've left out what many consider the greatest movie tagline ever—"In space, no one can hear you scream," Alien, 1979—but there's plenty here to chew on.
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The Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.
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NASAs Earth Observatory uses powerful satellites to capture the movements, evolution, and beauty of the earth, from snowstorms and earthquakes, as seen from space. Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite.
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Yes that's right, Warner Brothers is negotiating for the rights to a Space Invader movie.
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Virgin Galactic is aiming to launch test flights into space in 2011, but does not need additional financing after selling a stake to Abu Dhabi's Abaar last year, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth's axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.pa href="http://digg.com/world_news/Chilean_Quake_Likely_Shifted_Earth_s_Axis"Digg/a | a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-01/chilean-quake-likely-shifted-earth-s-axis-nasa-scientist-says.html"Original/a/p
You may not know his name, but you definitely know the artwork of Robert McCall, who died on Friday at the age of 90 in Arizona. His ecstatic visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have been on U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian.pa href="http://digg.com/space/RIP_Robert_McCall_Picasso_of_the_Space_Age_w_Slideshow"Digg/a | a href="http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/1/rip-robert-mccall-picasso-of-the-space-age"Original/a/p
Basically, Dogpatch is a cool space (the San Francisco location is on Pier 38) where entrepreneurs can rent desk space with a bunch of other startup folks. Even though it’s owned by Polaris, you don’t have to be or to become a Polaris portfolio company to get in.pa href="http://digg.com/tech_news/VC_Incubator_Dogpatch_Labs_is_frathouse_for_geeks"Digg/a | a href="http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/26/dogpatch-labs-hollrr/"Original/a/p
No place has been home to such fantastical wanderings as outer space, and when songsters take their tunes upwards, the videos turn out to be a great deal of fun.pa href="http://digg.com/music/Ready_for_Blast_Off_Bangin_Songs_From_Outer_Space"Digg/a | a href="http://www.switched.com/2010/02/24/ready-for-blast-off-bangin-songs-from-outer-space/"Original/a/p
A journey from Earth to Mars could soon take just 39 days -- cutting current travel time nearly six times -- according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US space agency.pa href="http://digg.com/space/Scientist_eyes_39_day_voyage_to_Mars"Digg/a | a href="http://www.physorg.com/news186397741.html"Original/a/p
A journey from Earth to Mars could soon take just 39 days -- cutting current travel time nearly six times -- according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US space agency.pa href="http://digg.com/space/Scientist_eyes_39_day_voyage_to_Mars"Digg/a | a href="http://www.physorg.com/news186397741.html"Original/a/p
Just as you have one heart, and one brain, your Windows installation comes with but one desktop. Sure, you can change the look of this digital meeting space by applying new wallpapers, or adding sidebars and widgets, or letting Windows 7 do all that automatic stuff that it does every ten minutes or so. But that's not really changing the desktop!pa href="http://digg.com/software/The_Best_Way_To_Customize_Your_Desktop_3_Top_Apps_Compared"Digg/a | a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/bumptop_vs_lightstep_vs_rainmeter_desktop_ui_showdown"Original/a/p
Space is full of images that make a geek’s heart flutter. But how about when we point those cameras back down at us on Earth?pa href="http://digg.com/space/20_Geeky_Images_from_Space"Digg/a | a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/20-geeky-images-from-space/"Original/a/p
