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Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in FloridaWashington (AFP) Jan 26, 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet. The basic idea is not actually as far-fetched as it sounds. NASA in 2006 announced plans to set up a colony on the south pole of the moon, in around 2020, as a base for further manned exploration of the solar system. "I do not want to be the country that having gotten to the moon first, turned around, sai ... read more |
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  Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas A and M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perh ... more | .. |
 Moon looms bright over Republican debate Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected. ... more | .. |
 The Lake Lander's New Home The Planetary Lake Lander has been moored for the past week a short distance off the southern shore of Laguna Negra, near PLL Base Camp. Its proximity to camp enabled engineers to test its data-samp ... more | .. |
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  Classifying Solar Eruptions Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections ... more | .. |
  NASA's Kepler confirms 26 new planets The US space agency said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside our solar system, all of them orbiting too close to their host stars to sustain life. ... more | .. |
 Life discovered on dead hydrothermal vents Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on. Or rather, it is replaced. A team led ... more | .. |
 Scientists discover new clue to the chemical origins of life Organic chemists at the University of York have made a significant advance towards establishing the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life. A team led by Dr ... more |
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US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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  Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system insi ... more | .. |
 NASA Debunks Life on Venus Claim NASA has dismissed the sensational claim by a Russian scientist that there is life on Venus, saying that the "disc" seen moving on the surface was in fact a lens cap. Earlier this month an art ... more | .. |
  Cassini's radar observes Titan's tropical dune fields Sand dunes are common on Earth, Mars, Venus and - unexpectedly - on Saturn's giant moon, Titan. Now detailed analysis of radar observations gathered during the Cassini spacecraft's flybys of cloud-s ... more | .. |
 Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions o ... more |
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 Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth Solar radiation from a massive sun storm - the largest in nearly a decade - collided with the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays. ... more | .. |
 M8.7 Solar Flare and Earth Directed CME The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a "solar energetic par ... more | .. |
 Elusive Matter Found To Be Abundant Far Above Earth Cold plasma has been well-hidden. Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much of this electrically charged gas exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our ... more | .. |
  NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from ... 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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 NRL's SoloHI Instrument Selected for Flight on Solar Orbiter Mission The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter ... more | .. |
 Earth's Cloudy Past Could Reveal Exoplanet Details Two astronomers from Spain are trying to determine how brightly Earth would shine in the age of the dinosaurs. Their results not only reveal how Earth would look to a distant observer, but could als ... more | .. |
The two faces of Titan's dunes A new analysis of radar data from the international Cassini spacecraft has revealed regional variations amongst Titan's sand dunes. The result yields new clues to the giant moon's climatic and geolo ... more | .. |
  Australia joins the fight against space junk Australia is backing a proposal to minimise the amount of 'space junk' circling the planet. The plan has been put forward by the EU, and calls for an international code of conduct for outer sp ... more |
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  ASU acquires exotic piece of Mars ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies has acquired a significant new sample for its collection: a rare Martian meteorite that fell in southern Morocco in July 2011. It is the first Martian fall in abou ... more | .. |
 Comet Corpses in the Solar Wind A paper published in Science raises an intriguing new possibility for astronomers: unearthing comet corpses in the solar wind. The new research is based on dramatic images of a comet disintegrating ... more | .. |
 Extreme Life at the Bottom of a Glacier The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria - Chryseobacterium and Paenispo ... more | .. |
 Mimas And Dione Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione. Dione is 698 miles, or 1 ... more |
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 Scientists Make First-Ever Observations Of Comet's Demise Deep Inside Solar Atmosphere In a paper to be published tomorrow in the journal Science, for the first time ever scientists at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC ... more | .. |
  The Helix in New Colors ESO's VISTA telescope, at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, has captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. This picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are ... more | .. |
 Quantum physics enables perfectly secure cloud computing Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the princi ... more | .. |
Biggest solar storm since 2005 pummels Earth A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said Monday. ... more |
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 Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria - Chryseobacterium and Paenispo ... more | .. |
 Catching a Comet Death on Camera On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun. That the comet met its fate this way was no surprise - but the chance to ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. "W ... more | .. |
 Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescope's adaptive optics an ... more |
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