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If you haven't had the chance to see the Lyrid meteor shower this year, or couldn't see anything because you live in less than optimal viewing conditions, don't worry.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, the country's first commander of the International Space Station, is the inspiration for the newly launched interactive space school website created by the National Film Board of Canada, or NFB, called NFB Space School.
The NASA Antares rocket made its maiden voyage Sunday when it was launched off the coast of Virginia at 5 p.m. ET as part of the agency's test mission.
This has been a great week for science (when isn't it?), but there were a number of new developments that were especially exciting. Here are four of the most interesting.
On Friday, April 19, a Russian experiment saw a group of animals being launched into orbit for a month-long project that aims to find out how space travelling affects living creatures.
The new animal astronauts launched into orbit Friday atop a Russian-built Soyuz 2 rocket that lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in Central Asia. The rocket carried the Bion-M1 space capsule, which is expected to spend a month in orbit, flying 357 miles above Earth.
A NASA funded research project at the University of Washington is working on a "fusion powered rocket." If successful, the rocket could potentially send spacecraft to Mars in just 30 days.
Awe-inspiring and eye-pleasing as they may be, the arms of spiral galaxies have remained a luminescent mystery to scientists for quite some time. New detailed computer simulations, however, are revealing more about spiral galaxies' arms, including the fact that they aren't as transient as previously thought, and that once formed, they sustain themselves.
Supernovae, one of the most powerful pieces of artistry in the heavens, have long been shrouded in mystery despite their relatively bright nature. A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal states that we knew even less about them than we thought - there are three types of supernovae, not just two.
A new map out of the European Space Agency's Planck mission shows that our universe is slightly different than we previously thought. Namely, it looks like the universe is not only older, but is expanding at a slower rate as well.
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have sex in space, scientists have some news for you. A new study out of the University of Montreal states that cellular development can be harmed by low-gravity, meaning any potential offspring could be crippled.
One of Pluto's moons may be named Vulcan after thousands of Star Trek fans voted in a public poll to name the moon after the home planet of one of the science fiction show's iconic characters.
NASA has released a video of the asteroid that flew by Earth over the weekend and came closer to the planet that some communication satellites.
Dark matter, an elusive cosmic phenomenon, has been the subject of much debate, but a lot of speculation may be put to rest in two weeks. At the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, a scientist from MIT has hinted that data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) could provide some breakthrough insights into most of our universe's mass.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, which will give the Earth a "record-setting" close shave Friday, would be worth an estimated $195 billion if it was harvested for resources, according to asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries, Inc.
