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Could exoplanet be a haven for life?Paris (AFP) May 16, 2011 Scientists said on Monday a rocky world orbiting a nearby star was confirmed as the first planet outside our solar system to meet key requirements for sustaining life. Modelling of planet Gliese 581d shows it has the potential to be warm and wet enough to nurture Earth-like life, they said. It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, located around 20 light years from Earth, which makes it one of our closest neighbours. Gliese 581d orbits on the outer fringes of the star's "Goldilocks zone ... read more |
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 US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets, US astronomers said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Galaxy NGC 4214 - A Star-Formation Laboratory The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's close proximit ... more | .. |
  Galileo Data Reveal Magma Ocean Under Jupiter Moon New data analysis from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The finding heralds the first ... more | .. |
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  A Wrinkly Old Reveal Clues To Its Past Written on the moon's weary face are the damages it has endured for the past 4-1/2 billion years. From impact craters to the dark plains of maria left behind by volcanic eruptions, the scars are all ... more | .. |
 MoonBots Challenges Teams to Conduct Lunar Missions with LEGO Robots The X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group has announced MoonBots 2.0: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge. This second annual contest will challenge teams of youth to design, program, a ... more | .. |
 Earth's Nearest Neighbor Within Reach NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date. Th ... more | .. |
  NASA Goddard Managed Comet Hopper Mission Selected for Further Study NASA selected the Comet Hopper mission to continue in its mission concept phase. If chosen to move forward for a 2016 mission, the project would be managed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Gre ... more |
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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
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  Carbon, Carbon, Everywhere But Not From the Big Bang As Star Trek is so fond of reminding us, we're carbon-based life forms. But the event that jump-started the universe, the Big Bang, didn't actually produce any carbon, so where the heck did it - and ... more | .. |
 NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to achieve orbit around Vesta on July 16, ... more | .. |
 NASA's Galileo reveals magma 'ocean' beneath surface of Jupiter's moon A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has revealed that beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is an "ocean" of molten or partially molten magma. The finding, from a ... more | .. |
 Detecting Wandering Worlds That Host Life Interstellar planets - those without stars to orbit - could serve as havens for life. They are often thought to be nearly invisible, since they are much dimmer than stars and do not have any suns ne ... more |
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  Science Highlights from Mercury's Orbit As the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, MESSENGER has the opportunity to make many observations of the Solar System's innermost planet that had not previously been possible. Each of MES ... more | .. |
  Flipping Hot Jupiters More than 500 extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than the sun - have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these syste ... more | .. |
 Dawn - first visual contact with Vesta The camera system on board the Dawn spacecraft has acquired its first image of the massive asteroid Vesta. Although the mission's first target is still about 975,000 kilometres away, appearing as ju ... more | .. |
 NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope ... more |
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
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 What a scorcher: 'Hot Jupiter' puzzle explained Scientists on Wednesday said they could explain why heat-seared giant planets in other solar systems can mysteriously orbit their star the "wrong" way. ... more | .. |
 Doppler effect found even at molecular level - 169 years after its discovery Whether they know it or not, anyone who's ever gotten a speeding ticket after zooming by a radar gun has experienced the Doppler effect - a measurable shift in the frequency of radiation based on th ... more | .. |
 Raging storms sweep away galactic gas ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has detected raging winds of molecular gas streaming away from galaxies. Suspected for years, these outflows may have the power to strip galaxies of gas and ... more | .. |
 Engineering Tests Leading The Way For NASA's Next Neemo Mission To determine how best to explore asteroids in the future, NASA scientists and engineers are taking their experiments underwater in the 15th expedition of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, ... more |
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 Fundamental question on how life started solved For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of Bo ... more | .. |
 NASA Administrator Visits Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. The solar-powered Juno space ... more | .. |
  Four Planets Huddle Up Before Dawn Next Week Four of the five planets visible to the unaided eye huddle quite close together in the pre-dawn sky next week, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. On the morning of May 10, Venus an ... more | .. |
Planets Align in the Morning Sky Have you ever woken up at the crack of dawn, shuffled to the kitchen counter for your first cup of joe, only to discover that you're out of coffee beans? Cruel. This week it's not a problem, because ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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 NASA's Spaceward Bound Takes Teachers Trekking across the Mojave Desert What clues found on Earth do NASA scientists use to help them deduce that there may be life on other planets? Can the same process be applied in the classroom to inspire and motivate the next genera ... more | .. |
 First IAC in Africa: Global space actors to meet in Cape Town The 62nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2011) will be organised in Cape Town, South Africa between Monday 3 October and Friday 7 October 2011. Media representatives are invited to attend ... more | .. |
  China launches rocket to monitor space environment China successfully launched a space environment-monitoring rocket Saturday morning from the southern island province of Hainan as part of the nation's key "Meridian Project." The rocket was se ... more | .. |
 Messenger Completes First 100 Orbits Of Mercury MESSENGER has completed its 100th orbit around Mercury. Since its insertion into orbit about the innermost planet on March 17, the spacecraft has executed nearly 2 million commands. The data g ... more |
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 Space Adventures proposes modified Soyuz TMA for Lunar tourists U.S. Space Adventures, the only company currently offering tourist orbital spaceflights, has offered to equip the Russian Soyuz TMA spaceship with additional living space for eight-day commercial fl ... more | .. |
  A Water Ocean on Titan Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. Titan, which is larger than Mercury, is the only worl ... more | .. |
 Large asteroid to pass close by Earth Astronomers say they're readying their instruments to observe an aircraft carrier-sized asteroid that will come closer to Earth than our own moon does. ... more | .. |
  Voyager's Love Story One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows - aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the ancient probe is space cold, it ... more |
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