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![]() Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2011 A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta-debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts. These findings may help scientists target samples for extraction during future missions to asteroids and terrestrial bodies such as Mercury, Venus, the moon and Mars. The results are published in the Elsevier journal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. The science team, led by professor ... read more |
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![]() The era of big American physics about to end The era of big American physics ends Friday with the retirement of the Tevatron particle accelerator, which has been recreating the Big Bang under four miles of Illinois prairie for 25 years. ... more | .. |
![]() Building the Tools for Astrobiology's Future The NASA Astrobiology program has selected eight new projects for funding under the Astrobiology Science and Technology for Instrument Development Program (ASTID). The ASTID program is an essential ... more | .. |
![]() Sunspot 1302 Big Bad And Coming Right At Us Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning--an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. ... more | .. | ||
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![]() FAU Physicist Develops Mathematical Method to Find Satellite Galaxies Sukanya Chakrabarti, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physics for the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University, has developed a mathematical method called "tidal analysis ... more | .. |
![]() From the Comfort of Home, Web Users May Have Found New Planets Since the online citizen science project Planet Hunters launched last December, 40,000 web users from around the world have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars ... more | .. |
![]() NASA searches for burned up satellite debris NASA officials scrambled Saturday to locate any remains of a bus-sized satellite - the biggest piece of US space junk to plummet to earth in 30 years - that disintegrated upon on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. ... more | .. |
![]() An Angry Bird in the Sky A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus (The Cen ... more |
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![]() Exploring an asteroid with the Desert RATS Earlier this month, European scientists linked up with astronauts roaming over the surface of an asteroid. Desert RATS, NASA's realistic simulation of a future mission, this year included a European ... more | .. |
![]() Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the Universe The Universe wouldn't be the same without the Higgs boson. This legendary particle plays a role in cosmology and reveals the possible existence of another closely related particle. The race to ... more | .. |
![]() Herschel probes the dusty history of a giant star About 5 thousand million years from now, our Sun will expand into a red giant, swelling to such a size that it may swallow the Earth. It will then begin to shed huge amounts of dust, surrounding its ... more | .. |
![]() Living in the Galactic Danger Zone We know for certain that life exists in the Milky Way galaxy: that life is us. Scientists are continually looking to understand more about how life on our planet came to be and the conditions that m ... more |
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![]() Saturn Moon Enceladus Spreads Its Influence Chalk up one more feat for Saturn's intriguing moon Enceladus. The small, dynamic moon spews out dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice - first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. It po ... more | .. |
![]() NASA bus-sized satellite to crash-land this week What goes up must come down. But where? ... more | .. |
![]() NASA says satellite will hit Earth Sept 23 US time The US space agency has narrowed down its prediction of when a defunct six-ton satellite will crash back to Earth, saying on Wednesday that it is expected to land on September 23, US time. ... more | .. |
![]() How the Milky Way Got Its Spiral The signature spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy were likely formed by an epic collision between the Milky Way and the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher a ... more |
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![]() The turbulent lives of stars The stars are boiling! The reason is the energy generated in the center of the star that wants to escape. If this does not happen quickly enough, the star starts to 'boil' in the outer layers causin ... more | .. |
![]() Beware of the wildlife even quiet galaxies can get dangerours Even though a dwarf galaxy clear across the Milky Way looks to be a mouse, it may have once been a bear that slashed through the Milky Way and created the galaxy's spiral arms, writes an Iowa State ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty from Vesta A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn's framing camera, used to produce the visualizati ... more | .. |
![]() WISE Mission Captures Black Hole's Wildly Flaring Jet Astronomers using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have captured rare data of a flaring black hole, revealing new details about these powerful objects and their blazing jets. ... more |
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![]() China to launch moon-landing probe around 2013 China will launch its lunar probe Chang'e-3 around 2013, which is expected to conduct the first softlanding of a Chinese spacecraft on an extraterrestrial body. The mission of Chang'e-3 is to ... more | .. |
![]() A big step towards the redefinition of the kelvin Metrologists are measurement artists who are very precise - in the case of the Boltzmann constant up to the sixth decimal place. Whoever is able to determine it very exactly will cause a small revol ... more | .. |
![]() The brightest gamma ray on Earth makes for safer world The brightest gamma ray beam ever created - more than a thousand billion times more brilliant than the sun - has been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde, and could open up new ... more | .. |
![]() NASA refines satellite crash course, a bit NASA on Thursday refined the crash course of a six-ton defunct satellite, saying it is likely to miss North America, though its exact landing spot remains unknown. ... more |
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![]() Black hole, star collisions may illuminate universe dark side Scientists looking to capture evidence of dark matter - the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe - may find a helpful tool in the recent work of researchers from Princeton ... more | .. |
![]() The Secret Lives of Solar Flares One hundred and fifty two years ago, a man in England named Richard Carrington discovered solar flares. It happened at 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1st, 1859. Just as usu ... more | .. |
![]() Gamma-ray bursts shed light on the nature of dark energy Dark energy is the basic constituent of the Universe today, one that is responsible for its accelerated expansion. Although astronomers observe the cosmological effects of the impact of dark energy, ... more | .. |
![]() Rocky Planets Could Have Been Born as Gas Giants When NASA announced the discovery of over 1,200 new potential planets spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope, almost a quarter of them were thought to be Super-Earths. Now, new research suggests that ... more |
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![]() From Star Wars to Science Fact: Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker's home world of Tatooine. Like Tatooine, ... more | .. |
![]() Balloon-based Experiment To Measure Gamma Rays 6,500 Light Years Distant Beginning Sunday, September 18, 2011 at NASA's launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, space scientists from the University of New Hampshire will attempt to send a balloon up to 130,000 feet wit ... more | .. |
![]() How Common Are Earth-Moon Planetary Systems Earth's Moon might have played an important role in the development and evolution of life on Earth. The Moon was formed via a giant impact in which a Mars-size projectile collided with the young Ear ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Flies Around Vesta A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn's framing camera will help scientists determine the proce ... more |
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