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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2008 |
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During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million ...
Breakup event in the main asteroid belt likely caused dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago
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Sep 05, 2007 |
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The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt.
Plasma Rocket Could Travel to Mars in 39 Days
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Wednesday, the Ad Astra Rocket Company tested what is currently the most powerful plasma rocket in the world. As the Webster, Texas, company announced, the VASIMR VX-200 engine ran at ...
Astronomers discover strange new planet
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Sep 14, 2006 |
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U.S. astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known in the universe. Smithsonian scientists say the new planet was discovered using a network of small automated telescopes known as HATl. The planet ...
Cuneiform clay tablet translated for the first time
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Mar 31, 2008 |
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A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, ...
Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Martian Water
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced ...
Space Shuttle Replacement
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Apr 28, 2006 |
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It’s no secret that NASA needs a replacement for the aging STS – Space Transport System – or more commonly, the Space Shuttle. In fact, many scientists – including some of the most prestigious organizations ...
Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon.
MRO Sees Rover from Orbit
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Oct 06, 2006 |
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With stunningly powerful vision, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a remarkable picture that shows the exploration rover Opportunity poised on the rim of Victoria crater on Mars.
A Giant Trilobite on the Sun
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Sep 19, 2007 |
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"We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters.
One giant leap for space fashion -- MIT designs sleek, skintight spacesuit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2007 |
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In the 40 years that humans have been traveling into space, the suits they wear have changed very little. The bulky, gas-pressurized outfits give astronauts a bubble of protection, but their significant mass ...
Moon water discovered: Dampens Moon-formation theory
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to ...
Possible Signs of Liquid Water Flowing on Mars
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Dec 06, 2006 |
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NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
Rocket launches may need regulation to prevent ozone depletion, says study
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Mar 31, 2009 |
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The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according to a new study by researchers ...
