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Russia Mars probe may fall to Earth in January: officialMoscow (AFP) Nov 14, 2011 A Russian probe that was to visit a moon of Mars but is stuck in orbit around the Earth could burn up in the Earth's atmosphere in January, the head of the Russian space agency said Monday. Vladimir Popovkin denied that the Phobos-Grunt probe was considered lost and said scientists had until December to try to re-establish contact, re-programme the probe and send it on its planned trajectory to Mars. "The probe is going to be in orbit until January, but in the first days of December the window w ... read more |
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  Giant planet ejected from the solar system Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to an article recently published in The Astr ... more | .. |
  NIST physicists chip away at mystery of antimatter imbalance Why there is stuff in the universe-more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter-is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. A team of researchers working at the Nat ... more | .. |
  Potential New NASA Mission Would Reveal the Hearts of Undead Stars Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos, shining on even though they're technically dead, and occasionally feeding on a neighboring star if it gets too close. They are born wh ... more | .. |
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 Discovery of 2 types of neutron stars points to 2 different classes of supernovae Astronomers at the universities of Southampton and Oxford have found evidence that neutron stars, which are produced when massive stars explode as supernovae, actually come in two distinct varieties ... more | .. |
  Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
  NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. |
  The Methane Habitable Zone The search for life is largely limited to the search for water - we look for exoplanets at the correct distance from their stars for liquid water to splash and flow freely on their surfaces, we 'fol ... more |
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Germany seeks US guarantee before sending Patriots to Ukraine
Space Force general to oversee U.S. 'Golden Dome' missile shield
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 Giant star explosion casts light on distant galaxies An international team of astronomers including members from the Niels Bohr Institute have used a short but intense light from a distant gamma-ray burst to investigate the composition of matter in ve ... more | .. |
 Swift Observatory Catches Asteroid Flyby As asteroid 2005 YU55 swept past Earth in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 9, telescopes aboard NASA's Swift satellite joined professional and amateur astronomers around the globe in monit ... more | .. |
 Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole A team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc - a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black h ... more | .. |
 Oldest Recorded Supernova This image combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. The Chinese witnes ... more |
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NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55 Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from da ... more | .. |
Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
 Whitehouse Says No Contact With ET The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no cred ... more | .. |
 Stellar Extremophiles Back in the 1970s, biologists were amazed to discover a form of life they never expected. Tiny microorganisms with ancient DNA were living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Instead of ... more |
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Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
ICJ to hand down watershed climate opinion
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 Studying Biology's Dark Matter Astrobiologists have long been interested in microorganisms that can survive in the harshest environments that Earth has to offer, from deep sea vents to geothermal hot springs. Unfortunately, these ... more | .. |
Large asteroid makes rare fly-by of Earth A big asteroid made its closest fly-by of Earth in 200 years on Tuesday, but there was never a chance of a crash landing as it zipped past our planet, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 Astronomy: Hubble 'whodunnit' is resolved at last Accusations that a giant of astronomy, Edwin Hubble, quashed a Belgian cleric who beat him to making one of the greatest discoveries of modern times are unfounded, Nature said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Giant solar flare detected A giant sunspot that erupted last week has been ranked as one of the largest solar flares seen in years, U.S. scientists said. ... more |
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 White House: No contact yet from E.T. In a galaxy, far, far away, there is a mathematical chance that alien life exists - but the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. ... more | .. |
NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer ... more | .. |
 Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send m ... more | .. |
 Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex ... more |
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Framatome opens advanced additive manufacturing hub in France
Framatome to supply nuclear fuel for Barakah plant boosting UAE energy security
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 EPOXI Mission Report For November 2011 As we approach the anniversary of the EPOXI flyby of Hartley 2, it is time to look at what we have learned about comets from this mission. In the first week of October, a special session of the annu ... more | .. |
 Asteroid 2005 YU55 Update NASA scientists will track asteroid 2005 YU55 from the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif. for at least four hours each day from Nov. 6 through Nov. 10. Radar observations from the Arec ... more | .. |
 Scientists study the 'galaxy zoo' using Google Maps and thousands of volunteers The reddest galaxies with the largest central bulb show the largest bars -gigantic central columns of stars and dark matter-, according to a scientific study that used Google Maps to observe the sky ... more | .. |
  NASA's Cassini Makes a New Pass at Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. These will be the first high-resolution radar observations made of ... more |
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 NASA's Fermi Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar, 100 Pulsars To-Date An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects f ... more | .. |
 New Space Station Camera Reveals the Cosmic Shore Part of human fascination with space is the chance to look back at our own planet from afar. The unique vantage from the International Space Station affords a vista both breathtaking and scientifica ... more | .. |
  Voyager 2 to Switch to Backup Thruster Set NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received that ... more | .. |
 Major breakthrough improves software reliability and security Anyone who uses multithreaded computer programs - and that's all of us, as these are the programs that power nearly all software applications including Office, Windows, MacOS, and Google Chrome Brow ... more |
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