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Astronomers Describe the Chaotic Dance and Planetlike System of Pluto's Moons
"It just shows the universe is a really complex and wonderful place," said Kenyon in an accompanying commentary in Nature.
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Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
As a place for life, Ganymede with its underground ocean is less promising, whereas Enceladus appears to possess all the necessary ingredients.
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Nasa Mission to Measure Earth's Magnetic Collisions
The magnetic collisions, which can potentially disrupt satellites and power grids, are not well understood.
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Leak Fears Prompt Space Station Shuffling
ISS crew had evacuated parts of the station due to worries of an ammonia leak.
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SpaceX's Next Frontier: Landing a Rocket on Earth
The company on Tuesday will attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket intact on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Telescope detects possible Earth-size planet
Scientists working with NASA's Kepler satellite reported on Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away. "We're still in the process of confirming this candidate is...
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To preserve history on the Moon, visitors asked to tread lightly
California's catalog of historic artifacts includes two pairs of boots, an American flag, empty food bags, a pair of tongs and more than a hundred other items left behind at a place called Tranquillity Base. The history registry for New Mexico lists the same items. That might be surprising, since Tranquillity Base is not in New Mexico or California...
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Booking a flight to space, with travel insurance
To go to outer space, Catherine Culver went to a travel agent. The first flights of the new airlines that will take tourists past the threshold of space are poised to take off in 2012, and getting a seat on one is not all that different from booking a trip someplace on Earth.
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Space plan from China broadens challenge to US
Broadening its challenge to the United States, the Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.
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Race to the Moon heats up for private firms
Now that the last space shuttle has landed back on Earth, a new generation of space entrepreneurs would like to whip up excitement about the prospect of returning to the Moon.Spurred by a $30 million purse put up by Google, 29 teams have signed up for a competition to become the first private venture to land on the Moon. Most of them are unlikely t...
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Atlantis ends its final voyage and an era in space
Space shuttle Atlantis is back on Earth, and the shuttle era is over. Atlantis and its four astronauts glided through the twilight on Thursday and landed in Florida shortly before sunrise. Hundreds gathered near the runway to welcome Atlantis home - and to bid NASA's 30-year space shuttle program goodbye.
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Atlantis lifts off for last space shuttle mission
For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and quickly disappeared into the gray, overcast sky. By dawn on Friday, cars and Winnebagos lined the sides of roadways with the prime views as hundreds of thousands of people came to watch the 135th and last flight in t...
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Quake alters Earth's balance and widens Japan
The magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck northern Japan on Friday not only violently shook the ground and generated a devastating tsunami, it also moved the coastline and changed the balance of the planet.Global positioning stations closest to the epicenter jumped eastward by up to 13 feet. Japan is "wider than it was before," said Ross Stein, a ge...
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NASA's quest to send a robot to the moon
For $150 billion, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) could have sent astronauts back to the Moon. The Obama administration judged that's too expensive, and in September, Congress agreed to cancel the program. For a fraction of that -- less than $200 million, along with about $250 million for a rocket -- NASA engineers at the Jo...
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Moon crater contains usable water, NASA says
The Moon, at least at the bottom of a deep, dark cold crater near its south pole, seems to be wetter than the Sahara, scientists reported Thursday. In lunar terms, that is an oasis, surprisingly wet for a place that had long been thought by many planetary scientists to be utterly dry.If astronauts were to visit this crater, they might be able to us...
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Astronomers Describe the Chaotic Dance and Planetlike System of Pluto's Moons
"It just shows the universe is a really complex and wonderful place," said Kenyon in an accompanying commentary in Nature.
-
Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
As a place for life, Ganymede with its underground ocean is less promising, whereas Enceladus appears to possess all the necessary ingredients.
-
Nasa Mission to Measure Earth's Magnetic Collisions
The magnetic collisions, which can potentially disrupt satellites and power grids, are not well understood.
-
Leak Fears Prompt Space Station Shuffling
ISS crew had evacuated parts of the station due to worries of an ammonia leak.
-
SpaceX's Next Frontier: Landing a Rocket on Earth
The company on Tuesday will attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket intact on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
-
Telescope detects possible Earth-size planet
Scientists working with NASA's Kepler satellite reported on Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away. "We're still in the process of confirming this candidate is...
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To preserve history on the Moon, visitors asked to tread lightly
California's catalog of historic artifacts includes two pairs of boots, an American flag, empty food bags, a pair of tongs and more than a hundred other items left behind at a place called Tranquillity Base. The history registry for New Mexico lists the same items. That might be surprising, since Tranquillity Base is not in New Mexico or California...
-
Booking a flight to space, with travel insurance
To go to outer space, Catherine Culver went to a travel agent. The first flights of the new airlines that will take tourists past the threshold of space are poised to take off in 2012, and getting a seat on one is not all that different from booking a trip someplace on Earth.
-
Space plan from China broadens challenge to US
Broadening its challenge to the United States, the Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.
-
Race to the Moon heats up for private firms
Now that the last space shuttle has landed back on Earth, a new generation of space entrepreneurs would like to whip up excitement about the prospect of returning to the Moon.Spurred by a $30 million purse put up by Google, 29 teams have signed up for a competition to become the first private venture to land on the Moon. Most of them are unlikely t...
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Atlantis ends its final voyage and an era in space
Space shuttle Atlantis is back on Earth, and the shuttle era is over. Atlantis and its four astronauts glided through the twilight on Thursday and landed in Florida shortly before sunrise. Hundreds gathered near the runway to welcome Atlantis home - and to bid NASA's 30-year space shuttle program goodbye.
-
Atlantis lifts off for last space shuttle mission
For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and quickly disappeared into the gray, overcast sky. By dawn on Friday, cars and Winnebagos lined the sides of roadways with the prime views as hundreds of thousands of people came to watch the 135th and last flight in t...
-
Quake alters Earth's balance and widens Japan
The magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck northern Japan on Friday not only violently shook the ground and generated a devastating tsunami, it also moved the coastline and changed the balance of the planet.Global positioning stations closest to the epicenter jumped eastward by up to 13 feet. Japan is "wider than it was before," said Ross Stein, a ge...
-
NASA's quest to send a robot to the moon
For $150 billion, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) could have sent astronauts back to the Moon. The Obama administration judged that's too expensive, and in September, Congress agreed to cancel the program. For a fraction of that -- less than $200 million, along with about $250 million for a rocket -- NASA engineers at the Jo...
-
Moon crater contains usable water, NASA says
The Moon, at least at the bottom of a deep, dark cold crater near its south pole, seems to be wetter than the Sahara, scientists reported Thursday. In lunar terms, that is an oasis, surprisingly wet for a place that had long been thought by many planetary scientists to be utterly dry.If astronauts were to visit this crater, they might be able to us...
