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Planets Living on the Edge

Planets Living on the Edge

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some stars have it tough when it comes to raising planets. A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one unlucky lot of stars, born into a dangerous neighborhood. The stars themselves ...


OSU students build and launch a sensor into space

OSU students build and launch a sensor into space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches ...


The Virgin Mothership "Eve" pictured in Mojave, California, in July 2008

Space tourism port to be sited in Abu Dhabi

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Tourists will be able to journey to outer space via Abu Dhabi as part of a deal by a local investment group to take a stake in the world's first commercial space travel operator, the two companies said on ...


Image from NASA video shows the International Space Station above the South Pacific

Discovery astronauts ready for final spacewalk

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astronauts of the US space shuttle Discovery will venture again into outer space Saturday on a third and final spacewalk of their mission designed to help complete the International Space Station.


Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms

Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...


The adventure of space enterprise in the 21st century

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

For over a half century, human activities in outer space have increased, but the high point was the Apollo Moon landings from 1969 – 1972. Now the United States has set forth a national space policy to return permanently ...


IBEX is in Orbit!

NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 1

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic ...


New space show highlights IBEX spacecraft's mission of discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As part of its education and public outreach efforts, the story of NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has been chronicled in a space show premiering this month at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The show ...


Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy

Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 21, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.


Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax.


Scientists pinpoint the 'edge of space'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Where does space begin? Scientists at the University of Calgary have created a new instrument that is able to track the transition between the relatively gentle winds of Earth's atmosphere and the more violent flows of charged ...


ISS Expedition 18 Crew Completes Spacewalk

ISS Expedition 18 Crew Completes Spacewalk

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuesday's spacewalk with Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov concluded at 5:11 p.m. EDT when the Pirs docking module airlock was closed. The spacewalk concluded ...


Follow Rosetta's final Earth boost

Rosetta's final Earth boost

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations ...


Last visit home for ESA's comet chaser Rosetta

Last visit home for ESA's comet chaser Rosetta

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

ESA's Rosetta comet chaser will swing by Earth on 13 November to pick up orbital energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to the outer Solar System. Several observations of the Earth-Moon system ...


NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around ...