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The supermassive black holes that dot outer space are the "most fuel efficient engines" in the universe, according to the findings of a new US study that used a powerful NASA X-ray observatory to observe nine vast black holes.
Researchers today released the first Mars images from two of the three science cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Images taken by the orbiter's Context Camera and Mars Color Imager during the first tests of those instruments at Mars confirm the performance capability of the cameras.
NASA's Mars rover Spirit has reached a safe site for the Martian winter, while its twin, Opportunity, is making fast progress toward a destination of its own.
Russia's leading space company on Tuesday laid out an ambitious plan to send manned missions to the moon by 2015, build a permanent base to tap its energy resources and dispatch a crew to Mars between 2020 and 2030.
NASA will send a second spacecraft to the moon with the launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled for October 2008. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will travel independent of the orbiter to search for water ice.
By 2008, NASA intends to launch its first mission to the moon in more than three decades - an unmanned mission intended to gather information about materials on the moon, scientists said Monday.
A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The outermost ring of Uranus, discovered just last year, is bright blue, making it only the second known blue ring in the solar system, according to a report this week in the journal Science.
Astronomers based at Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a giant bridge of methyl alcohol, spanning approximately 288 billion miles, wrapped around a stellar nursery.
A deal between NASA and HDNet effective through 2010 will allow people interested in such things to view space shuttle launches on their TVs, thus ensuring that the events will be broadcast in the highest quality television format available.
A fuel leak and subsequent fire led to the destruction of Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) first Falcon 1 rocket seconds after liftoff, the private launch services firm said Saturday.
