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Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found In Habitable ZonePasadena, CA (SPX) Feb 3, 2011 NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the potential planets are near Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of smaller, cooler stars than our sun. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets. Kepler also found six confirmed planets orbiting a sun-like star, Kepler-11. This is the largest group of transiting ... read more |
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  NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan For Asteroids And Comets NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,00 ... more | .. |
  BigBOSS Advances On Dark Energy With Help From National Optical Astronomy Observatory The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) research and development center for ground-based astronomy, has announced its conditional approval of the ... more | .. |
 Working Together To Take The Pulse Of The Universe Using the Parkes radio telescope, CSIRO astronomers are working closely with NASA to unlock one of astronomy's great enigmas - the science behind pulsars. The team are using the world-class fa ... more | .. |
  Report: Space 'junk' threatens services The amount of junk orbiting Earth in space is nearing a "tipping point" that may threaten the $250 billion space services industry, a U.S. report says. ... more |
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 Second Sun May Appear At Any Moment Scientists claim that Betelgeuse, a star 640 light years away from Earth, is going to explode soon. Nikolai Chugai, head of the department of Variable Stars and Astronomical Spectroscopy of the Russ ... more | .. |
  Our Sun And Beyond Our Sun has been around for about 4.6 billion years, and will probably last for another few billion years. Although this may seem to be a long time, it is a relatively short interval in the life of ... more | .. |
 Spacecraft finds new comets, asteroids A NASA spacecraft surveying our solar system has discovered previously unknown objects, including 20 new comets and more than 33,00 asteroids, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  CERN accelerator to run another year The closure of Europe's Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back a year because the machine is running so well and giving scientific results, researchers say. ... more |
  
Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
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 Tracking The Origins Of Speedy Space Particles NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft combined with computer models have helped track the origin of the energetic particles in Earth's magneti ... more | .. |
 Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into operation. Scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Integra ... more | .. |
  Gemini South Shines First Sodium Laser "Constellation" In the early morning of January 22, 2011 at 4:38am, Chile Summer Time, a new era in high-resolution astronomy began with the successful propagation of a 5-star sodium laser guide star "constellation ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees Farther Back In Time Than Ever Before Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to it limits by finding what they believe to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe-at a distance of 13.2 billion light years, som ... more |
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 NASA Comet Hunter Spots Its Valentine NASA's Stardust spacecraft has downlinked its first images of comet Tempel 1, the target of a flyby planned for Valentine's Day, Feb. 14. The images were taken on Jan. 18 and 19 from a distance of 2 ... more | .. |
 Asteroids Ahoy! Jupiter Scar Likely From Rocky Body A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus. Data ... more | .. |
  NASA's New Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration And Testing NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering's facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander Pro ... more | .. |
  A Fizzy Ocean On Enceladus For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside Saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. Is it wet--or not? Now, new evidence is tipping the ... more |
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 Runaway Star Plows Through Space A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Surve ... more | .. |
 Hubble Finds A New Contender For Galaxy Distance Record Pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to the limit of its technical ability, an international collaboration of astronomers have found what is likely to be the most distant and ancient galaxy ever seen, ... more | .. |
 What Impact Would Sun Dimming Have on Earth's Weather Solar radiation management projects, also known as sun dimming, seek to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth to counteract the effects of climate change. Global dimming can occur as a sid ... more | .. |
  Astronomer discounts chances of alien life A leading U.S. astronomer says there is no hope of finding alien life in space because all other planets discovered so far are to hostile for life. ... more |
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 Black Holes The term "black hole" does not mean empty hole. This astrophysical phenomenon is anything but empty. It is just the opposite, a great amount of matter packed into a very small area. Think of a star ... more | .. |
 Solar Physicist Wins NAS Award A senior astronomer at the National Solar Observatory has been awarded the Arctowski Medal of the National Academy of Sciences for "for major contributions to understanding the Sun's magnetic fields ... more | .. |
 Distant galaxy born in the dawn of time Astronomers on Wednesday said they had snared an image of what may be the oldest galaxy ever seen, a starry cluster that came into being when the Universe was still a baby. ... more | .. |
  Looking Back At Uranus As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more |
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 Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, ... more | .. |
 Meteorites May Answer Life's Chirality Question A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more | .. |
 Swift Survey Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies Seen in X-rays, the entire sky is aglow. Even far away from bright sources, X-rays originating from beyond our galaxy provide a steady glow in every direction. Astronomers have long suspected that t ... more | .. |
 No Direct Link Between Black Holes And Dark Matter Massive black holes have been found at the centers of almost all galaxies, where the largest galaxies - who are also the ones embedded in the largest halos of dark matter - harbor the most massive b ... more |
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U.S. atom smasher to be shut down The planned shutdown the Fermilab Tevatron ends hopes it might win the race to find the most sought-after particle in high-energy physics, U.S. scientists say. ... more | .. |
 The Orion Nebula: Still Full Of Surprises This ethereal-looking image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This nebula is much more than just a p ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Prepares For Valentine's Day Comet Rendezvous NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 at approximately 8:37 p.m. PST (11:37 p.m. EST), on Feb. 14. The mission will allow scientists for the first time to l ... more | .. |
 More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more |
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