How Lunar Landers Sandblasted the Moon New research has revealed the seemingly gentle touchdowns of the six Apollo Lunar Modules (LMs) on the moon between 1969 and 1972 were actually incredibly violent events.
Space Source: Space.com
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Space Source: Space.com
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NASA Wants You to Name Its New Telescope It's true, there's been a spate of NASA marketing advice here lately, but this time the agency is actually asking for help.
Space Source: Wired
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Space Source: ABC News
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What is Relativity? Albert Einstein was famous for many things, but his greatest brainchild is the theory of relativity. It forever changed our understanding of space and time.
Physics Source: LiveScience
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Case Builds for Water on Saturnian Moon of Enceladus German researchers published a new theory that helps explain observations of water vapor and ice being shot hundreds of kilometers into space by cryo- volcanoes on the surface of the tiny Saturnian moon of Enceladus.
Space Source: Wired
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Video: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches NASA launched the space shuttle Atlantis Thursday afternoon for a mission to attach the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.
Space Source: National Geographic
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Space shuttle lifts off from Florida The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from its seaside Florida launch pad on Thursday to deliver a $1.9 billion European science laboratory to the International Space Station.
Space Source: Reuters
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How a Lunar Eclipse Saved Columbus Eclipses in the distant past often terrified viewers who took them as evil omens. Certain lunar eclipses had an overwhelming effect on historic events. One of the most famous examples is the trick pulled by Christopher Columbus.
Space Source: Space.com
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Space Source: Space.com
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Bad weather threatens shuttle launch NASA began fueling shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Thursday, even though bad weather threatened to delay the mission to add another science lab to the international space station.
Space Source: MSNBC
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Coming Feb. 20: Total Eclipse of the Moon Mark Wednesday, Feb. 20, on your calendar as "Lunar Eclipse Night," for if the weather is fair you should have no difficulty observing a total eclipse of the moon.
Space Source: LiveScience
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Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 -- a cosmic fossil? The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. NGC 1132, together with the small dwarf galaxies surrounding it, are dubbed a “fossil group” as they are most likely the remains of a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past.
Space Source: EurekAlert
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Space Source: Nature
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Space Magnetism May Hold Secret to Fusion Power New discoveries about magnetic field lines and the first-ever direct observation of their reconnection in space are offering hope that scientists will learn how to unlock fusion power as an energy source in the future.
Space Source: Space.com
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Iran Shoots For The Stars State-Run Media Reports Successful Launch Of Research Satellite Amid Doubts
Space Source: CBS News
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Microbiology Source: Discover Magazine
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Cool spacedust survey goes into orbit University of Nottingham astronomers will be studying icy cosmic dust millions of light years away — using the biggest space telescope ever built.
Space Source: EurekAlert
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NASA readies space shuttle Atlantis for launch The crew of the newly repaired space shuttle Atlantis arrived at its Florida spaceport on Monday as NASA prepared to launch the ship on a mission to deliver a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
Space Source: Reuters
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Listen: Explorer 1, America's Answer to Sputnik Fifty years ago Thursday, a 30-pound satellite called Explorer 1 joined Sputnik in orbit around the Earth, sending the United States into the space race. Replicas of the historic spacecraft are on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Space Source: NPR
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Space Source: CSM
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Dark energy makes galaxies keep their distance Galaxies today are struggling to clump together against the incredible repulsive power of dark energy, hints a new survey of thousands of galaxies. Measuring this anti-clumping effect puts a new arrow in the quiver of cosmologists seeking to uncover the nature of the mysterious force.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Mercury Reveals its Secrets he untrained eye might have trouble distinguishing the latest images from Mercury from familiar images of Earth's moon, but the pictures are surprising experts. The planet "was not the place we expected," says Sean Solomon, the principal investigator of the MESSENGER mission.
Space Source: Science
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Mercury's magnetosphere fends off the solar wind The planet Mercury's magnetic field appears to be strong enough to fend off the harsh solar wind from most of its surface, according to data gathered in part by a University of Michigan instrument onboard NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
Space Source: EurekAlert
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Space Source: ABC News
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Traces Of The Martian Past In The Terby Crater The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express has returned striking scenes of the Terby crater on Mars. The region is of great scientific interest as it holds information on the role of water in the history of the planet.
Space Source: Science Daily
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Space cargo ship near completion The launch and docking windows for the ATV, Europe's huge new space-station resupply ship, have been set.
Space Source: BBC News
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