News tagged with outer space
Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(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.
Migrating Microbes
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
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With every spacecraft that leaves Earth, millions of microbes hitch a ride into space. As astrobiologists search for life in other worlds, preventing forward and back contamination remains a key priority.
Astro_Mike: In space, everyone can hear you tweet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- On Twitter, messages of 140 characters may seem confining. Mike Massimino is finding a different type of space even more limiting - outer space.
To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2008 |
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It's not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the "pico satellite" being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer ...
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Planets Living on the Edge
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2008 |
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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 ...
Space tourism port to be sited in Abu Dhabi
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2009 |
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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 ...
Discovery astronauts ready for final spacewalk
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 05, 2009 |
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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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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(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
Sep 02, 2008 |
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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 ...
NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2008 |
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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
Mar 05, 2009 |
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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
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Scientists pinpoint the 'edge of space'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
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