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Penguin poo (guano) stains, visible from space, have helped British scientists locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica. Knowing their location provides a baseline for monitoring their response to environmental change.

Avid cloudspotters should have chances to bag one of the most ethereal and mysterious types of cloud over the coming weeks. Noctilucent clouds hover on the edge of space and are glimpsed only on summer nights from the latitudes of Britain northwards, and from similar latitudes in the southern hemisphere. The first of this summer were sighted just a week ago and we may see the final NLCs, as they are usually called, in late July or early August.Consisting of minute ice crystals, NLCs float at heights near 82km in the Earth's mesosphere. They usually shine with a silvery or bluish hue in our summer twilight, normally in the lower part of the sky between the north-west and north-east. We see them only because they catch the sun's rays long after the sun has set for all other terrestrial clouds. Sometimes they appear similar to a chaotic patch of cirrus; at others they may show cross-hatching or rippling, the details evolving as we watch.The first NLCs were reported in 1885, two years afte

Nasa has tiptoed into the new world of social media with Twittering astronauts and Facebooking rovers - and now the agency is taking the next step with an invitation-only outreach to 'the twedia' to cover a space shuttle launch.

The city of Rio Rancho has installed two Web cameras that allow people to monitor online new developments in the City Center.

A storm of meteorites that pounded Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have made the planets warmer and wetter.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering students at UC San Diego are studying the fluid dynamics of water in order to build a more comfortable and sanitary urine collection device for space travel.

Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (UPI) Jun 1, 2009 - The U.S. space agency says it is making the final preparations for its 2009 Power Beaming Challenge, part of the fourth annual Space Elevator Games.

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center, VIB, Flanders' leading life science institute, and the Leuven University, K.U.Leuven, set up a joint basic research init...

Seoul (AFP) March 12, 2009 - South Korea's government said Tuesday it had approved plans to launch the country's first rocket into space in late July.

Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2009 - Every entrepreneur pursuing the space debris opportunity seems to have the single answer to removing space debris. It is cost-effective, simple, quick, safe, reliable, user-friendly, non-polluting, non-interfering and almost ready to go.