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Loss of Planetary Tilt Could Doom Alien LifeMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2012 Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall and winter does more than merely provide variety, however. The fact that life can exist at all on Earth is closely tied to seasonality, which is a sign of global temperature moderation. The driver of our seasons is the slight "lean" Earth has in its rotational axis as it revolves around the Sun, known as ... read more |
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  Uncertainty grows over Russia Mars probe crash site Uncertainty over the location of the impending crash of Russia's failed Mars probe grew Friday, with an official saying it may end up in the Atlantic and not Pacific Ocean as suggested. ... more | .. |
 Space station to dodge superfast debris The International Space Station will need to dodge a small but superfast piece of orbiting communication debris Friday morning, the U.S. Space Command said. ... more | .. |
  Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research. In a new paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, ... more | .. |
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 ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign For Phobos-Grunt An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA's Space Debris Office. Participants include NASA and R ... more | .. |
  Electron negativity cut in half by supercomputer While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other. No matter ho ... more | .. |
  NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow from a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. This isn't just any dying star. It ... more | .. |
 Scientists Discover a Saturn-like Ring System Eclipsing a Sun-like Star A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn. The scientists, led by Ass ... more |
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32 killed near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run Health Ministry says
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  Astronomers release unprecedented data set on celestial objects that brighten and dim Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars ... more | .. |
 Star Destroyed in Supernova Was White Dwarf Last year's discovery of the nearest Type Ia supernova in decades - captured only 11 hours after it exploded - allowed astronomers to finally cinch the identity of the stars behind these explosions, ... more | .. |
 Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New Wise Image A new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth. The region - a 1,000-square-degree chunk of our Mil ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Determine Color of the Milky Way Galaxy A team of University of Pittsburgh astronomers has announced the most accurate determination yet of the color of the (aptly named) Milky Way Galaxy: "a very pure white, almost mirroring a fresh spri ... more |
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 Kepler discovery establishes new class of planetary systems Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems - planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such "two su ... more | .. |
 Planet Population is Plentiful An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky W ... more | .. |
 Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and are 0.7 ... more | .. |
 Milky Way teaming with 'billions' of planets: study The Milky Way is home to far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that at least one of them may harbour life, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more |
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India
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 RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of Bullets in Black Hole Jet Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astr ... more | .. |
 Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi team annou ... more | .. |
 When galaxy clusters collide A UC Davis graduate student who is leading a study of the collision of galaxy clusters 5 billion light years away will discuss the team's findings in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the Am ... more | .. |
 Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe An exceptional galaxy cluster, the largest seen in the distant universe, has been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation-funded Atacama Cosmology Telescope ... more |
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 Herschel and Spitzer See Stardust In Nearby Galaxies The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions ... more | .. |
 UBC astronomers help map the universe's dark matter at unprecedented scale University of British Columbia and University of Edinburgh astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed, according to results released at the American Astronomical Society ... more | .. |
 Scientists searching for Earth-type planets should consider two-star system A group of astrophysicists from The University of Texas at Arlington plans to expand the discussion about a newly discovered planet orbiting two stars by presenting a study suggesting where an Earth ... more | .. |
 New Star Cluster W3A Images Captured by SOFIA Observatory NASAs Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) researchers have captured new images of a recently born cluster of massive stars named W3A. The cluster is seen lurking in the depths o ... more |
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 Before they were stars The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, likely including our sun, grew up in cosmic turmoil - as illustrated in a new image f ... more | .. |
  New Computer Model Explains Lakes and Storms on Titan Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -300 degrees Fahrenheit (about ... more | .. |
 Astronomers reach new frontiers of dark matter For the first time, astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed. The results, presented by Dr Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Associate Pro ... more | .. |
 Light makes write for DNA information-storage device In an effort to make data storage more cost-effective, a group of researchers from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a DNA-bas ... more |
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  'Mini moons' may surround Earth Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth, as small asteroids get snagged by gravity and spend some time in orbit around the planet, Finnish researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Stormy Skies and Garden Worlds A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Stephen Hawking misses 70th birthday event in his honour British scientist Stephen Hawking has been forced to miss a scientific debate to mark his 70th birthday but sent an upbeat message saying he was living at a "glorious time". As scientists and ... more |
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