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Lynx Flight Pattern

RocketShip Tours Teams Up With XCOR Aerospace To Offer A $95,000 Right Stuff Experience

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race to offer commercial passengers an experience of a lifetime just got more affordable. RocketShip Tours owned by Jules Klar, a veteran in the travel business will arrange a sub-orbital ...


Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight (AP)

Space tourism yet to fly, 5 years since 1st flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10 million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he'd soon be on a rocket ride of his own.





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Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light

Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A find of 60 headless skeletons summer 2009 may reveal the identity of the people who first inhabited the Pacific Ocean archipelago Vanuatu 3000 years ago.


Calif. space tourism firm launches S. Korea deal

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A California company developing a rocket plane for space tourism announced Thursday that it has an agreement with a nonprofit group in South Korea to conduct launches in that nation.


Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...


Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...


Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest ...


Scientists observe super-massive black holes using Keck Observatory in Hawaii

Scientists observe super-massive black holes using Keck Observatory in Hawaii

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

An international team of scientists has observed four super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, which may provide new information on how these central black hole systems operate. Their findings ...


Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of data from three different telescopes shows an ongoing collision between two galaxies, NGC 6872 and IC 4970.


RIT astronomer mines Spitzer Space Telescope data for massive starbursts

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...



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