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E3 2013: Selling the Xbox One, PS4, Wii U in a tough climate

2013-06-15 08:52:52

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An unexpected lesson in Antarctic ice melt

2013-06-14 05:00:00

It's called calving, and it occurs when enormous chunks of ice burst free from glaciers or floating ice shelves and drop into the sea with an explosive, heart-stopping crash. This process, which produces icebergs, has long been viewed as the primary...

His is the voice of Grand Central Terminal's history

2013-06-13 05:30:00

NEW YORK — Danny Brucker, an oval-shaped man wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and a harried look, stared at the students circling him. "If you thought you were going to get a tour of Grand Central Station, you were WRONG!" he screeched in a voice...

Old, arthritic Mars rover Opportunity has brand new 'mission'

2013-06-07 14:56:00

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has scraped away at some of the oldest rock it's examined and found the strongest signs for water it has ever discovered over its 9.5-year mission, scientists for the Mars Exploration Rover project said Friday. The...

Stealthy, truck-sized asteroid zipped past Earth on Friday night

2013-06-08 07:00:00

An asteroid the size of a truck zipped past Earth on Friday night, and you probably missed it. Asteroid 2013 LR6 is 30 feet in length, or a bit more than half the size of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February. It made...

How I Made It: SpaceX exec Gwynne Shotwell

2013-06-07 20:28:00

The gig: Gwynne Shotwell, 49, is president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, the Hawthorne company that builds rockets and space capsules to resupply the International Space Station for NASA. Shotwell is No. 2 at the pioneering company behind founder...

Mars or bust, Buzz Aldrin says

2013-06-12 13:12:00

Dancer, rapper, and, oh yeah, Man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin is talking, but are the right people listening? One of the original moonwalkers (“Michael Jackson always did it backwards!” Aldrin complained) challenged the United States to pick...

'Ride of the Valkyries' rouses Caltech students for finals

2013-06-12 22:13:00

The courtyard at Blacker House at Caltech was quiet at 6:59 a.m. Wednesday, the empty concrete space littered with several splintered wooden pallets, three large tires, a crowbar and sledgehammer. A minute later, the crescendo of Wagner's "Ride of the...

Tail-wiggling comet Lovejoy grazes Sun to reveal solar mysteries

2013-06-06 15:47:00

The comet Lovejoy plunged into the sun’s blazing corona in 2011 and somehow made it out "alive." That’s a feat that no man-made spacecraft could have achieved. Now, in a paper published in Science, astronomers show how they tracked the...

Curiosity rover's 'Mars rat' shares origins with Man in the Moon

2013-06-03 09:22:00

UFO watchers' eyes were set ablaze recently by reports of what looked like a stony rodent lurking among the rocks on Mars. The so-called Mars rat, spotted in an image taken last year by the NASA rover Curiosity’s Mast Camera, captured imaginations...

Newly discovered alien world is giant, hot and 300 light-years away

2013-06-03 13:41:00

Scientists have snapped an image of a newly discovered alien world that�is just 300 light-years from Earth. The planet, dubbed HD 95086 b, is huge--four to five times the size of Jupiter --�and it makes a wide circle around its young sun, orbiting the...

The moon's mysteriously uneven gravity is explained at last

2013-06-01 06:00:00

A lunar mystery that has lingered for decades has finally been solved, thanks to data collected by NASA's GRAIL mission and some science detectives here on Earth. Back in 1968, JPL scientists made an irritating discovery while preparing for the Apollo...

South Bend Tribune/SANTIAGO FLORES Terrell Franklin, 8, tests the �end effector� he made today at Navarre Intermediate Center as part of the NASA Ignite Summer Camp.

2013-06-13 15:22:00

NASA selects first women astronauts including Sally Ride. Ride died in 2012.

2013-06-13 12:48:06

NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity uses its panoramic camera to view its next destination, Solander Point, whose layers could hold more evidence of Mars' watery history.

2013-06-07 00:00:00