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Nov 30, 2004

Grisly Sacrifices Found in Pyramid of the Moon

New discoveries at an ancient burial site near Mexico City suggest grisly sacrifices and a materialistic society, scientists said Thursday. Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon was built by an unknown group of people about 2,000 years ago. The surrounding ruins, a master-planned metropolis sprawling over 8 square miles, is thought...

Jun 30, 2006

Man Fights 'Alien,' Proposes Marriage

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) _ Ross Savedra fought aliens to rescue his girlfriend, then popped the question in an out-of-this-world proposal. Savedra, 32, staged his elaborate proposal Sunday afternoon for Ariana Ash, 23, with the help of family members and Roswell's UFO Museum. Savedra and Ash were touring the museum when...

Nov 30, 2007

Mars Clouds Drier Than Thought

Clouds over Mars contain less water than previously thought, according to new research using simulated clouds in a lab here on Earth. The clouds under study are made of water ice, like some clouds on Earth, said Tony Colaprete of NASA's Ames Research Center. However, they are forming at very...

Nov 30, 2007

NASA Taps Boeing to Build Avionics for New Rocket

WASHINGTON -- Boeing Space Exploration of Houston nabbed its second major role on NASA's new astronaut launcher, winning a contract potentially worth $800 million to build and outfit an avionics ring that will control the Ares I rocket in flight. Boeing beat out Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. for the...

Nov 30, 2007

NASA Names Next Generation Moon Lander 'Altair'

Move over Eagle, the Altair has landed. NASA today introduced a new name and logo for its next generation lunar lander, which was previously referred to as the Lunar Surface Access Module, or LSAM for short. That's the name they chose, said Jeff Hanley, NASA's Constellation Program manager, under which...

Nov 30, 2007

Canadian Earth-Watching Satellite Finally Reaches Orbit

PARIS - Canada's Radarsat-2 Earth observation satellite, which has been almost a decade in design and construction, launched successfully Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to launch-services provider Starsem S.A. of France. The 4,850-pound (2,200-kilogram) Radarsat-2 is expected to operate for seven years...

Nov 30, 2007

Ariane 5 Rocket Successfully Lofts Horizons-2, RascomStar-QAF1

KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's Ariane 5 rocket on Dec. 21 successfully launched telecommunications satellites for a U.S.-Japanese joint venture and a startup company that will offer telephone and Internet service throughout Africa after a decade-long struggle for financing. The launch, from the Guiana Space Center here, was the sixth...

Nov 30, 2007

Ariane 5 Rocket Makes Record Sixth Launch in a Year

KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's Ariane 5 rocket on Friday successfully launched telecommunications satellites for a U.S.-Japanese joint venture and a startup company that will offer telephone and Internet service throughout Africa after a decade-long struggle for financing. The launch, from the Guiana Space Center here, was the sixth Ariane...

Nov 30, 2007

International Robotic Rivalry in Space

GOLDEN, Colorado — It has to be some sort of record. At no time over the five decades of sending robot craft into the heavens have so many spacecraft been on duty at such a variety of far-flung destinations or en route to their targets. Ballistic buckshot of science gear...

Nov 30, 2007

Jets Spiral in 'Reverse Whirlpool' from Star

Astronomers have observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from an infant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta. The enormous jet, which shoots out in two directions, is rocketing material away from the so-called protostar and into interstellar space at more than supersonic...

Aug 31, 2007

Search is on for Hot Young Stars

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. On average, at least three gamma-ray bursts occur somewhere in the heavens each day. Shri Kulkarni has trained his eyes up to these new wonders with his latest research in this emerging field. Kulkarni’s...

Jun 30, 2007

Roswell Commemorates 1947 'UFO Crash'

ROSWELL, N.M.-If you truly believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down here 60 years ago, rest assured: You're not alone. At least 35,000 people have descended on Roswell this weekend for the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival to commemorate a purported flying saucer crash on...

Dec 31, 2006

A UFO at O'Hare? Some Pilots Thought So

CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal officials say it was probably just some weird weather phenomenon, but a group of United Airlines employees swear they saw a mysterious, saucer-shaped craft hovering over O'Hare Airport last fall. The workers, some of them pilots, said the object didn't have lights and hovered over an...

Jul 31, 2008

Bats Shut Traps When Flying in Groups

Bats are known, in part, for making an infernal racket that helps them navigate, but it turns out they may actually flap around in relative silence when traveling in groups. It's only for a microsecond, but the bats may actually take turns shutting up so they can listen to the...

Jun 30, 2008

Apollo Astronaut Believes in Aliens, Psychics and Mystics

Former Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell made news recently with claims about UFOs and alien cover-ups. Though Mitchell said he never saw any UFOs during his time with NASA, he believes stories he has heard from others about the 1947 crash in Roswell, New Mexico. There was a UFO crash. There...