Shuttle Returns Safely After a 14-Day Mission -
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The shuttle Discovery touched down at Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The shuttle Discovery rolled to a stop here on Saturday morning, bringing a 14-day mission to the Inte...
Fuel Subsidies Overseas Take a Toll on U.S. -
JAKARTA, Indonesia — To understand why fuel prices in the United States have soared over the last year, it helps to talk to the captain of a battered wooden freighter here.
Kemal Jufri/Imaji,
He pays just $2.30 a gallon for diesel,...
Shuttle Returns Safely After a 14-Day Mission -
Matt Stroshane/Getty Images
The shuttle Discovery touched down at Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The shuttle Discovery rolled to a stop here on Saturday morning, bringing a 14-day mission to the Inter...
With New Designer, NASA Takes Giant Leap in Space Fashion -
When Neil Armstrong’s boot touched the lunar surface, he was wearing Hamilton Standard gear. But when astronauts go back to the Moon, they will be changing their wardrobe — and their tailor, too.
NASA
The National Aeronautics...
A Bounty of Midsize Planets Is Reported -
European Southern Observatory
An artist rendering of three planets in a system of “super-Earths” around a star about 42 light-years from Earth.
There is a lot of new territory out there in the cosmos, but nothing you would wan...
White Patches Found in Mars Trench Are Ice, Scientists Say -
After a decade of shouting, “Follow the water!” in its exploration of Mars, NASA can finally say that one of its spacecraft has reached out, touched water ice and scooped it up.
NASA
Now, scientists will be able to tackle the ...
Basics - Discovery of More Planets Gives Alien Life-Seekers Heart -
Serge Bloch
For those of us who still mourn the demise of the “Star Trek” franchise and its vision of the cosmos as a thrillingly multicultural if occasionally lethal nightclub, the announcement last week that many Sun-size stars i...
