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Mars mission delayed NASA's next "Scout" mission to Mars will miss its chance to launch in 2011 because of a conflict of interest between one of the two proposing teams and the panel set up to evaluate them, NASA said Friday.
Space Source: Nature
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Saturday, Dec 22, 2007, 4:34pm Rating: | Views: 1232 | Comments: 0
Uncrewed Orion could find astronauts lost in space NASA's Orion spacecraft could fly unpiloted to rescue astronauts stuck in orbit around the Moon, using sensors and smart navigation software the space agency is currently developing.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Friday, Dec 21, 2007, 12:49pm Rating: | Views: 1166 | Comments: 0
Asteroid May Hit Mars in Next Month A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.
Space Source: ABC News
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Friday, Dec 21, 2007, 11:37am Rating: | Views: 1245 | Comments: 0
Moon is younger and more Earth-like than thought It's a good thing the Moon doesn't have any feelings to hurt. New research suggests it is actually 30 million years younger than anyone had thought, and that it is merely a 'chip off the old block' of Earth rather than being made up of the remnants of a Mars-sized body that slammed into Earth billions of years ago.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Dec 20, 2007, 11:34am Rating: | Views: 1184 | Comments: 0
Mars May Replace Rudolph Christmas Eve Mars will be unusually bright this Christmas Eve and the moon will be shining full - a development that might make Santa Claus rethink his need for Rudolph's red nose.
Space Source: CBS News
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Thursday, Dec 20, 2007, 11:34am Rating: | Views: 1538 | Comments: 0
ET too bored by Earth transmissions to respond Messages sent into space directed at extraterrestrials may have been too boring to earn a reply, say two astrophysicists trying to improve on their previous alien chat lines.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007, 11:05am Rating: | Views: 1196 | Comments: 0
Small asteroids can pack a mighty punch Beware the blast from above: small asteroids that explode before they hit the ground may be more dangerous than we thought.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007, 11:05am Rating: | Views: 1223 | Comments: 0
Space Source: BBC News
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007, 11:05am Rating: | Views: 1380 | Comments: 0
NASA identifies cause of shuttle glitch NASA on Tuesday traced fuel-gauge failures in the shuttle Atlantis’ tank to a bad connector, and a top manager said he did not know how long it would take to replace the part or when the spaceship might fly.
Space Source: MSNBC
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Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007, 11:04am Rating: | Views: 1263 | Comments: 0
Lawmaker wants space shuttle extension The United States should keep flying the space shuttles past their 2010 retirement date to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the international space station, a Florida congressman said Monday.
Space Source: MSNBC
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Tuesday, Dec 18, 2007, 8:50am Rating: | Views: 1123 | Comments: 0
Space Source: Wired
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Monday, Dec 17, 2007, 8:59am Rating: | Views: 1308 | Comments: 0
The Enduring Mysteries of Asteroids There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids circling our sun, all so-called "minor planets" left over from the formation of the solar system. Much about them remains mysterious.
Space Source: LiveScience
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Monday, Dec 17, 2007, 8:58am Rating: | Views: 1112 | Comments: 0
Get ready for traffic jams on the Moon It might be time to consider traffic lights on the moon. In the past week, governments, space agencies, and even a company from the Isle of Man announced plans to land on the moon.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Saturday, Dec 15, 2007, 6:23pm Rating: | Views: 1184 | Comments: 0
Antarctic sub to test waters for Jupiter moon mission Researchers believe an ocean lies beneath Europa's icy exterior, but they don't know how thick the ice is. If the moon's heat – possibly from volcanic activity in its rocky mantle – is intense enough and the ice shell is thin enough, the ice shell can directly melt, causing regions of what appear to be broken, rotated and tilted ice blocks on the surface (Illustration: Michael Carroll/NASA/JPL)
Space Source: New Scientist
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Saturday, Dec 15, 2007, 6:23pm Rating: | Views: 1232 | Comments: 0
Deep Impact gets new mission for new year A spacecraft that sent a projectile slamming into a comet will swing by Earth on New Year's Eve before starting a 2½-year journey to Comet Hartley 2.
Space Source: MSNBC
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Friday, Dec 14, 2007, 9:40am Rating: | Views: 1447 | Comments: 0
Best meteor shower builds to a climax Here is what astronomers David Levy and Stephen Edberg have written of the annual Geminid meteor shower: "If you have not seen a mighty Geminid fireball arcing gracefully across an expanse of sky, then you have not seen a meteor."
Space Source: MSNBC
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Thursday, Dec 13, 2007, 9:18am Rating: | Views: 1412 | Comments: 0
Milky Way's two stellar halos have opposing spins We call it home, but the Milky Way can still surprise us. It does not have just one halo of stars, as we thought, but two. The finding calls into question our theories for how our galaxy formed.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Thursday, Dec 13, 2007, 9:17am Rating: | Views: 1331 | Comments: 0
Saturn's Rings Older Than First Thought? Saturn's shimmering rings may be as old as the solar system, scientists said Wednesday, debunking earlier theories that the rings were formed during the dinosaur age.
Space Source: CBS News
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Thursday, Dec 13, 2007, 9:17am Rating: | Views: 1248 | Comments: 0
Uranus and Neptune switched positions 4 billion years ago The planets in our solar system weren't always in the order they are today. Four billion years ago, early in the solar system's evolution, Uranus and Neptune switched places.
Space Source: EurekAlert
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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007, 10:32am Rating: | Views: 1197 | Comments: 0
On Mars, springtime means gushing gas geysers On spring days on Mars, powerful geysers sometimes spew carbon dioxide "steam" and dust to great heights, a phenomenon unlike anything ever seen on earth
Space Source: Reuters
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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007, 10:32am Rating: | Views: 1219 | Comments: 0
Strange Shapes Seen on Mars NASA scientists have discovered what might form some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, winding channels carved into the Martian surface that scientists have dubbed "spiders," "lace" and "lizard skin."
Space Source: LiveScience
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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007, 9:03am Rating: | Views: 1409 | Comments: 0
Mammoth tusks show up meteorite shower The discovery of the 2–5 millimetre holes left by meteorites opens a window into a impact event thought to have happened over Alaska and Russia tens of thousands of years ago. And it could provide a whole new way to chart impacts from space.
Geology Source: Nature
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Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007, 9:02am Rating: | Views: 1525 | Comments: 0
Building blocks of life formed on Mars Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory have shown for the first time that building blocks of life formed on Mars early in its history.
Space Source: EurekAlert
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 11:04am Rating: | Views: 1114 | Comments: 0
Plans Afoot: Bringing Back Samples From Mars When planning to send humans to Mars, as several countries now are doing, it's best to know what you're getting into. The Mars Rovers, still exploring the surface of the planet, are doing an excellent job of filling in data holes. But scientist want to bring back a piece of the planet too.
Space Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 11:04am Rating: | Views: 1362 | Comments: 0
'Twilight zones' on scorched planets could support life Rocky extrasolar planets thought to be half frozen and half scorched might instead rock back and forth, creating large swaths of twilight with temperatures suitable for life.
Space Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 11:03am Rating: | Views: 1231 | Comments: 0
Mars rover racing to reach winter resting spot The Mars rover Spirit is racing against time to reach a resting spot for the winter after a giant dust storm drained much of its energy, scientists said Monday. Spirit has until Christmas to drive to the sunny slope of a low plateau where it will park itself with its solar panels pointed at the sun and hunker down for the winter.
Space Source: MSNBC
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 11:03am Rating: | Views: 1523 | Comments: 0
Mars robot unearths microbe clue Scientists believe a patch of ground disturbed by the vehicle shows evidence of a past environment that would have been perfect for microbial life. The deposits were probably produced when hot spring water or steam came into contact with volcanic rocks.
Space Source: BBC News
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 8:38am Rating: | Views: 1443 | Comments: 0
Space Source: Nature
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2007, 8:37am Rating: | Views: 1271 | Comments: 0
Testing Time For Instrument On Hubble's Successor A significant milestone for the Hubble Space Telescope successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is on course to be reached before Christmas with the testing of the verification model of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Space Source: Science Daily
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Friday, Dec 07, 2007, 10:41am Rating: | Views: 1266 | Comments: 0
Scientists find what makes the solar wind howl The solar wind, which whips off the sun and blows past Earth and through the solar system, is unleashed by powerful magnetic waves in electrically charged gas around the sun
Space Source: Reuters
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Friday, Dec 07, 2007, 10:40am Rating: | Views: 1157 | Comments: 0