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March 08, 2011
EXO LIFE
NASA says 'no support' for claim of alien microbes
Washington DC (AFP) Mar 8, 2011
Top NASA scientists said Monday there was no scientific evidence to support a colleague's claim that fossils of alien microbes born in outer space had been found in meteorites on Earth. The US space agency formally distanced itself from the paper by NASA scientist Richard Hoover, whose findings were published Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Cosmology, which is available free online. "That is a claim that Mr Hoover has been making for some years," said Carl Pilcher, director of NASA's ... read more

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SKY NIGHTLY

Elephant Trunks In Space
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas, called Sh2-284, located in the constellation of Monoceros. Lining up along the edges ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Juno Spacecraft Currently Undergoing Environmental Testing
NASA's Juno spacecraft is currently undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin's test facility near Denver, Colo. The solar-powered Juno will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more ... more
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MOON DAILY

Astrobotic's Mission To The Moon Releases Guide For Payload Developers
Astrobotic Technology has released a new guide for researchers on preparation of their instruments for the company's robotic expedition to the surface of the Moon. The expedition, based on tec ... more
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TECH SPACE

UK Technology Scans The Skies For Space Hazards
UK space surveillance technology is being used in ESA's first co-ordinated space tracking campaign - part of a larger programme to provide up to date and accurate information on space hazards in Ear ... more
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EXO LIFE

NASA scientist claim of 'alien life' draws scrutiny
A NASA scientist's claim that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and skepticism, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

MSU Team Solves Mystery Of Missing Sunspots, Helps Predict Space Weather
Solar scientists from around the world were puzzled when sunspots recently disappeared for more than two years, but a former Montana State University physics graduate student and two collaborators h ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

Wormholes linking stars theorized
European physicists say some stars could contain wormholes, tunnel-like passages connecting distant points in space-time, a concept sparking much debate. ... more
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
US government gets a year of ChatGPT Enterprise for $1
Russia hints at deploying mid-range missiles after ending INF moratorium
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EXO WORLDS

Meteorite Tells Of How Planets Are Born In A Swirl Of Dust
Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing t ... more
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TECH SPACE

Japan's Hitachi to sell HDD unit to Western Digital
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Monday it will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive unit to US firm Western Digital for about $4.3 billion. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

What's Hitting Earth
Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids - fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks - enter the Earth's atmosphere. Stand out under the stars for more than a half an hour on a clear n ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Researchers Crack The Mystery Of The Spotless Sun
In 2008-2009, sunspots almost completely disappeared for two years. Solar activity dropped to hundred-year lows; Earth's upper atmosphere cooled and collapsed; the sun's magnetic field weakened, all ... more
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MOON DAILY

China Expects To Launch Fifth Lunar Probe Change-5 In 2017
China is expected to launch its fifth lunar probe, Chang'e-5, in 2017 to send back a moon rock sample to earth, a top Chinese space scientist told Xinhua Wednesday. A lunar landing probe, luna ... more
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EXO LIFE

Abundant Ammonia Aids Life's Origins
An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State Univ ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Space sleuths solve riddle of missing sunspots
Space scientists on Thursday said they could explain why spots disappeared off the face of the Sun for two years, a mystery that had challenged a mainstream theory about our star. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA To Offer Explanation Of The Missing Sunspots
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 3, to discuss the first computer model that explains the recent period of decreased solar activity during the Sun's 11-year cyc ... more
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
Great Barrier Reef suffers most widespread bleaching on record
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EXO LIFE

U.K. scientists to search for alien life
British scientists say they will lead a $650 million program searching for chemical signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Meteor chemistry hints at early life clues
A chemical examination of a meteorite found in Antarctica could lend weight to the argument life on Earth had extraterrestrial origins, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

PS1 Telescope Establishes Near-Earth Asteroid Discovery Record
The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids on the night of January 29, the most asteroids discovered by one telescope on a single night. "This record n ... more
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MOON DAILY

The 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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IRON AND ICE

Record number of asteroids spotted
Astronomers using a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii said they discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids Jan. 29, the most ever found in a single night. ... more
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TECH SPACE

World's biggest IT fair shoots for the clouds
The world's top high-tech fair opens Tuesday with the IT industry in bullish mood, preparing to wow visitors with head-spinning futuristic gadgets and the latest in 'cloud computing' technology. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planet Formation In Action
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star that is in the early stages of making a planetary sy ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Experts Detect Waves In Giant Magnetic Holes The Size Of The UK
Massive waves in giant magnetic holes on the surface of the Sun have been discovered for the first time by solar scientists from the University of Sheffield and Queen's University Belfast, something ... more
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Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge
Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions
Sticky business: India's purchases of Russian oil
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DEEP IMPACT

Missing Chromium Is Clue To Planet Formation
Early in the formation of the Earth, some forms of the element chromium separated and disappeared deep into the planet's core, a new study by UC Davis geologists shows. The finding, to be publ ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Findings Raise New Questions About Dark Matter
Recent data for gas rich galaxies precisely match predictions of a modified theory of gravity know as MOND according to a new analysis by University of Maryland Astronomy Professor Stacy McGaugh. Th ... more
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EXO WORLDS

'Missing' element gives planet birth clues
A search for a missing metal in the Earth could help scientists understand the early stages of planet formation, U.S. researchers say. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Quasar's Belch Solves Longstanding Mystery
When two galaxies merge to form a giant, the central supermassive black hole in the new galaxy develops an insatiable appetite. However, this ferocious appetite is unsustainable. For the first ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Chandra Finds Superfluid In Neutron Star Core
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the core of a neutron star. Superfluids created in laboratori ... more
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MOON DAILY

Venus And Crescent Moon Pair Up At Dawn
The brightest planet and the eerie waning crescent Moon will create an arresting sky scene low in the southeast in the early dawn of Monday, February 28th, and Tuesday, March 1st, 2011. "These ... more
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EXO LIFE

Clay-Armored Bubbles May Have Formed First Protocells
A team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic clay. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Physicists Build Bigger Bottles Of Antimatter To Unlock Nature's Secrets
Once regarded as the stuff of science fiction, antimatter-the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable universe-is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world. While phys ... more
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