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'Wandering' planets may have water, lifeChicago (UPI) Feb 21, 2011 Liquid water may be found on planets that have gone adrift from their stars and may have acted as stepping stones to spread cosmic life, U.S. researchers say. Gravitational battles with other planets or passing stars can fling worlds out of their solar systems, but two scientists from the University of Chicago say these wandering worlds could continue to stay warm thanks to the decay of radioactive elements in their cores, NewScientist.com reported Monday. Dorian Abbot and Eric Switzer s ... read more |
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  Hunt for the 'God Particle' to continue Europe's Large Hadron Collider will either prove the existence of the so-called "God Particle" within two years or it probably doesn't exist, scientists say. ... more | .. |
  Catching Space Weather In The Act Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As y ... more | .. |
  The Patterns Of Life Are Universal When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them "flower arrangements." He could also say "fingerprints" or "sand ripples" or "how plants grow." "Most patterns yo ... more | .. |
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  Google Lunar X Prize Roster Reaches 29 Teams Today, the X PRIZE Foundation announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that t ... more | .. |
  Herschel Finds Less Dark Matter But More Stars ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into star formation ... more | .. |
 Super-Sharp Radio Eye Remeasuring the Universe Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an achievem ... more | .. |
 84 Student Teams Set to Roll At 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more |
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 Kepler Triples ExoPlanet Count As Search For Biosphere 2 Intensifies The rush of data released earlier this month from the Kepler science team is intriguing for what it saw and didn't see in its first 4 months of observations. The relatively small Kepler space telesc ... more | .. |
 Back To The Roots Of The Solar System Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to obtain det ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Sample Magnetic Environment Around Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to skim close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the plan ... more | .. |
  One Month Until Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft - carrying seven science instru ... more |
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 High NOON For Microwave Photons An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists a ... more | .. |
 Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward Earth Tuesday is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the gadget-happy modern world, experts say. ... more | .. |
 Direct Images Of Disks Unravel Mystery Of Planet Formation The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), continue with another remar ... more | .. |
 Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon Water Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercur ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
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  Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 The galaxy NGC 2841 - shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the space observatory's newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 - currently has a relatively low star fo ... more | .. |
 Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Reflected Glory The nebula Messier 78 takes centre stage in this image taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, while the stars powering the bright d ... more | .. |
  Spectacular Flyby Of Comet Tempel 1 Tests Lockheed Built Spacecraft NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a Valentine's Day deep-space rendezvous with an object it had been seeking for the past four-and-a-half years. The Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft flawlessly ex ... more |
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 Herschel Quantifies The Dark Matter Threshold For Starburst Galaxies Modern astronomers have established that there is much more to galaxies than meets the eye, as the stars, gas and dust - perceivable by telescopes across the entire electromagnetic spectrum - make u ... more | .. |
Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases Images Of Man-Made Crater On Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus. The space ... more | .. |
Earth dodges geomagnetic storm: scientist A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. ... more |
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 Isolating The Stellar Discs Of Andromeda A team of astronomers from the UK, the US and Europe have identified a thick stellar disc in the nearby Andromeda galaxy for the first time. The discovery and properties of the thick disc will const ... more | .. |
 New Instrument Will Help Confirm Kepler Planet Finds The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge. In some ... more | .. |
 SDO Celebrates One Year Anniversary On February 11, 2010, at 10:23 in the morning, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched into space on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral. A year later, SDO has sent back millions of stunnin ... more | .. |
 Stardust Set To Meet Its NExT Comet Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine's Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second. It's been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the ... more |
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 New View Of Family Life In The North American Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This cosmic community is called the North America ... more | .. |
 NASA spacecraft unravels comet mystery A NASA spacecraft's flyby with a comet showed erosion on the Tempel 1's surface since it skimmed by the Sun in 2005, and revealed Tuesday the first clear pictures of the crater made by a Deep Impact probe. ... more | .. |
 NASA'S Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An ... more | .. |
 The Two Faces Of Tempel 1 Just one year before its Feb. 14 encounter with comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed the largest rocket burn of its extended life. With the spacecraft on the opposite side of the sol ... more |
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