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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Malaysia Sun.com http://www.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:36 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:36 -0400 30 Parts of Mars resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a study. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514674/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:20:04 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514674/cs/1/ Washington, July 3 : A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen comet-shaped knots inside the Helix Nebula. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514628/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:30:30 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514628/cs/1/ Washington, July 3 : Astronomers have used NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to discover 16 pulsars. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514627/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:30:27 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514627/cs/1/ Washington, July 3 : Findings by NASA's Phoenix Mars mission indicates that the Red Planet had a wetter and warmer climate in the recent past, and could again in the future. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514620/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:40:57 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514620/cs/1/ London, July 3 : A gadget that could sneak a glimpse inside an astronaut's brain has passed the 'vomit comet' test, which means the device can be calibrated to measure blood flow in zero gravity. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514607/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:40:31 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514607/cs/1/ Washington, July 3 : New data from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has revealed that every night during the Martian winter, water-ice crystals fall from high, thin clouds over the north pole, just like "diamond dust" that falls through the air in the Arctic. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514593/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:40:15 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514593/cs/1/ Washington, July 3 : A new research has determined that many characteristics of Mars are quite similar to planet Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514568/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:40:23 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514568/cs/1/ Washington, July 3 : NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images from the Moon, since reaching lunar orbit on June 23. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514560/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:40:13 -0400 Malaysia Sun.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/514560/cs/1/ Serena, left and Venus, right Williams return speak while playing Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the U.S. during their doubles match at Wimbledon, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Nied... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25860554/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:06:37 -0400 Sign on San Diego http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25860554/ Landon Donovan, pictured in June 2009, has issued the Los Angeles Galaxy an ultimatum - have English superstar David Beckham clean up his act or risk the departure of Donovan, the club´s all-time top... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25860551/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:17:04 -0400 soccerway http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25860551/ — On July 2 the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft h... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25860550/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:16:21 -0400 Science Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25860550/ Alistair Darling has warned bankers they will be "brought back to Earth" if they engage in excessively risky trading. Speaking before unveiling next week's banking reform White Paper, the Chancellor... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25859181/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:52:56 -0400 Ananova http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25859181/ As the most dominant women players of the last decade sat side by side yesterday afternoon, smiling in the wake of their semi-final victory in the doubles, it was hard to picture them today putting si... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25857067/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:46:32 -0400 The Guardian http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25857067/ On the face of it, another grim week for Gordon Brown. A U-turn on the part-privatisation of Royal Mail and a messy Commons defeat on his bill to "clean up" politics followed his climbdown on the Iraq... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25857066/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:34:13 -0400 The Independent http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25857066/ ll-action, all-week on BBC1 after the watershed Torchwood would seem to be continuing its parent show Doctor Who's mission of providing spooky scenarios that can be easily imitated in play – like th... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25857042/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:26 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25857042/ Navy Lt. Commander Gregory Reid Wiseman was selected from among 3,500 applicants for the 2009 astronaut class. Wiseman is a test pilot serving aboard the http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25854150/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:28:03 -0400 Baltimore Examiner http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25854150/ Save the Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida. One of dozens of infant chimpanzees seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, he was recruited into the military’s air and spa... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852309/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:08:04 -0400 Times Online http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852309/ wrote about scientists who were unhappy that a purported clamp down was afoot on their use of data snagged by U.S. military spacecraft – hush hush satellites that from time to time catch natural... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852661/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:04:43 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852661/ The new near-infrared image of the Helix Nebula, showing comet-shaped knots within, was released July 2, 2009. Scientists noted that these features look like a fireworks display in space. Credit: NAOJ... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852660/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:04:43 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852660/ The five UK-born individuals who have flown in space are being honoured with a commemorative pin.The British Interplanetary Society is making the award to recognise the astronauts' achievements but al... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852652/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:39:43 -0400 BBC http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25852652/ Film Review: Moon (3.5 stars)There exist on this planet two distinct sub-species of filmgoer. One thinks Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was perhaps the greatest science-fiction film ever made... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25851316/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:41:38 -0400 National Post http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25851316/ July 3, 2009 · Scientists say X-ray data collected by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton spacecraft show evidence of a new type of black hole in a galaxy about 290 million light years from ... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850640/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:06:29 -0400 NPR http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850640/ Serena and Venus Williams will meet in the Wimbledon final for the fourth time after a rollercoaster Thursday which witnessed epic drama as well as a farcical no-contest.Serena reached her fifth final... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850637/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:01:36 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850637/ Tennis: Murray plots course to meet the greatest Venus and Serena Williams won in contrasting fashion yesterday to set up their fourth all-sister Wimbledon final and eighth meeting in a Grand Slam tit... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850639/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:50:55 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850639/ LONDON (Reuters) - A display of raw desire over a decade ago from sister Serena inspired Venus Williams to ascend the summit of the women's game but there will be no room for sentiment when the siblin... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850635/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:39:07 -0400 Reuters http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25850635/ Since the crew of Apollo 17 returned from the moon in December 1972, no human has left low-Earth orbit. Five space shuttles, scores of Russian Soyuz capsules, the International Space Station, and more... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25849427/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:21:20 -0400 Taipei Times http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25849427/ Pastel colors swirl across Mars, revealing differences in the composition and nature of the surface in this false-color infrared image taken on May 22, 2009,by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THE... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25848142/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:37:26 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25848142/ The International Space Station's Expedition 20 crew, the first-ever full six person team, share a meal in the Unity node of the International Space Station in May 2009. American astronaut Michael Bar... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25848143/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:37:25 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25848143/ WASHINGTON: NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He will tweet from space in Spanish and English. Astronaut Jose Hernandez grew up in... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25845664/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:26:01 -0400 Times of India http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25845664/ July 2, 2009 · Many Saturn dealers and customers were relieved after hearing that Roger Penske would buy the company from General Motors. Penske has a reputation as a dynamo in his many busines... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25843223/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:38:09 -0400 NPR http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25843223/ LONDON - Venus and Serena Williams clash in a fourth all-sister Wimbledon final on Saturday determined to prove that their domination of the event is not a backward step for the sport's future welfare... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25843227/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:20:06 -0400 Inquirer http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25843227/ The surprise was that Serena Williams was one point away from losing it to Elena Dementieva. Williams, hardly for the first time here or elsewhere, found a way to snarl and swing her way through big... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25843225/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:41:33 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25843225/ Venus Williams has angrily hit back at suggestions that her 6-1, 6-0 Wimbledon semi-final demolition of world number one Dinara Safina was an embarrassment to women's tennis. Venus, the five-time Wim... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25842028/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:58:00 -0400 ABC Sports http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25842028/ Indonesia successfully launched a home-grown rocket into space on Thursday as part of plans to send a satellite into orbit by 2014, officials said. The RX-420 rocket took off from a launch pad in Gar... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836710/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:05 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836710/ A leader in S-Band radar development and production, with more than 100 operational systems deployed worldwide, Lockheed Martin supports a range of critical space command and control programs and cont... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838195/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:05 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838195/ NASA's Terrier-Orion rocket lifts off, carrying experiments from faculty and students around the country. MSU instructors were among those who developed experiments for the June 26 launch. (Photo cour... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838124/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:01 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838124/ Microsat Systems Canada is delighted to announce the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite - Canada's First Space Telescope. The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars) microsatellite wa... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836815/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:56 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836815/ As the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) reaches its six-month milestone, over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for the first time, and even more have n... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838204/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:58 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838204/ The first International Space University (ISU) Opening Ceremony held at a NASA center drew more than 500 guests for a multimedia celebration of exploration at the Mountain View Center for the Performi... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838205/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:57 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838205/ An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838201/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:01 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838201/ The Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed program is an effort to develop a new ultra-lightweight High Power Generation System that, when combined with electric propulsion, will form the basis for future sel... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836101/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:55 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836101/ Berlin, July 2 : The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) has achieved a milestone of sorts, in the sense that over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for th... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836480/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:56:44 -0400 New Kerala http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25836480/ Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the satellite it built for TerreStar Networks is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers. The world's largest commercial satellite deployed its sola... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838200/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:02 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838200/ As America celebrates its 233rd birthday this holiday weekend, there will be an extra light in the sky along with the fireworks. Across the country, Americans will be treated to spectacular views of t... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838203/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:58 -0400 Space Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838203/ Fourth of July weekend marks the middle of the year. I hope you are having a really good one. With parades, picnics, barbecues and fireworks to top it off, this is a great time of year. I think we are... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838207/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:09:26 -0400 News and Sentinel http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838207/ On one side the power and the glory. On the other utter humiliation.Rarely can a Wimbledon semi-final have illustrated those two contrasting emotions so starkly as Venus Williams' 6-1 6-0 demolition o... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838206/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:50:43 -0400 Sportal http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25838206/ station's six-man crew , but is part of a carefully orchestrated series of arrivals and departures at the outpost this month. "It's just a set up for the traffic patterns in orbit,&... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25835697/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:21:17 -0400 Yahoo http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25835697/ Footage shot just weeks before the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing shows astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin training in their cumbersome spacesuits. Apollo expert http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833184/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:57:46 -0400 The Guardian http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833184/ "Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says." ) The leading theory has been a mid-air explosion of either a rocky meteor or an icy http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833122/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:58 -0400 National Geographic News http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833122/ Posted on: Thursday, 2 July 2009, 15:30 CDT U.S. scientists say data from the Phoenix Mars Lander suggests parts of Mars resemble Earth, including landscape, history of water and weather conditions... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833176/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:06:36 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833176/ By the time you read this, if the forecasters are correct, the heat will have broken and we'll be back to normal, middling-warm July days. It'll be a shame, in some ways: the soaring temperatures have... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25831231/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:44:36 -0400 The Independent http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25831231/ This week, a new lunar orbiter sent back its first images and engineers prepared a mock Mars rover to help free Spirit, which is stuck in a sand trap on the Red Planet http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833195/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:31:52 -0400 New Scientist http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833195/ — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial neighbor. The LROC ... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833171/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:11:48 -0400 Science Daily http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25833171/ Finally, a black hole Goldilocks would appreciate. Most black holes are either incredibly massive or amazingly compact and lightweight, but now scientists have discovered a medium-sized black hole tha... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829536/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:22:59 -0400 MSNBC http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829536/ /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that it has completed manufacturing and assembly of an advanced 5,500-lbf Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Liquid Methane (LCH4) roc... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829538/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:45:26 -0400 Earth Times http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829538/ Earth, Wind & Fire The most obvious takeaway from Wednesday night's joint Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire concert at the Target Center was that they got the order wrong. The two horn-heavy acts opened... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25827702/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:36:07 -0400 Pioneer Press http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25827702/ This mosaic assembled from Phoenix images show the spacecraft's three landing legs. Splotches of Martian material on the landing leg strut at left could be liquid saline-water. Credit: Kenneth Kremer,... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829531/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:49:06 -0400 Universe Today http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829531/ Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University res... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829528/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:30:18 -0400 General Sources http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25829528/ At top left, a VLA image of the M87 galaxy shows the radio-emitting jets at a scale of about 200,000 light-years. Subsequent zooms progress closer into the galaxy's core, where the supermassive black ... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824940/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:31:38 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824940/ Officially, the space agency is still on track with a 4-year-old plan to spend $35 billion to build new rockets and return astronauts to the moon in several years. However, a top NASA manager is float... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824941/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:05:18 -0400 USA Today http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824941/ Clouds scoot across the Martian sky in a movie clip consisting of 10 frames taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. This clip accelerates the motion. The camera took these 10... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824939/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:31:40 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824939/ Venus Williams of the U.S. (right) is congratulated by Dinara Safina of Russia after their semi-final match at the Wimbledon tennis championships, in London July 2. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824949/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:07 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824949/ Scientists think life appeared about 4 billion years ago, and ancient rocks on Earth can give us some idea of what the environment was like. Life may have originated in an ocean rich in chemicals. Thi... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824946/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:25:43 -0400 MSNBC http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824946/ An illustration of what the Big Bang may have looked like. A new experiment, called QUIET will look for theoretical ripples in the expanse of space caused by the explosion some 14 billion years ago. http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824947/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:26:00 -0400 MSNBC http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824947/ This color image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on the 20th day of the mission, or Sol 19 (June 13, 2008), after the May 25, 2008, landing. This image shows one tre... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824930/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:53:29 -0400 Space.com http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824930/ galaxy Messier 87 (M 87) unleashed a torrent of gamma radiation and radio flux, an international collaboration of 390 scientists happened to be watching. They're reporting the discovery in this w... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824935/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:49:26 -0400 Universe Today http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824935/ Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have intentionally driven their engineering rover into soft soil in a sandbox testbed, to simulate how the Spirit rover is stuck on Mars. And they did a good... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824937/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:49:23 -0400 Universe Today http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824937/ Mike Massimino, AKA Astro_Mike on Twitter, works on his computer during the STS-125 mission. Credit: NASA Although current astronauts are Twittering and blogging from space, it's a cumbersome pro... http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824936/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:49:20 -0400 Universe Today http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/25824936/