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Kepler Statistical Analysis Suggests Earthlike Planets Extremely RareSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2012 Last week, the Kepler science team released its list of candidate planets based on the data collected during the mission's first sixteen months. The last comparable publication summarized the mission's first four months of data. The update thus yields a much larger number of candidate planets. Significantly, the longer time window means pushing back the veil of two biases that make Kepler's data set, at any point in time, relatively incomplete. ... read more |
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  Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge ... more | .. |
  Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own' This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ... more | .. |
 Stars with Dusty Disks Should Harbor Earth-like Worlds Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Debris disks consist of fields of planetesimals and dust encircling stars. A few hundr ... more | .. |
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 Magnetic moon In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath ... more | .. |
 Star Comb joins quest for Earth-like planets If there is life on other planets, a laser frequency comb developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help find it. Such a comb-a tool for precisely measuring frequenc ... more | .. |
 Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig ... more | .. |
 Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible ... more |
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 Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m ... more | .. |
  Impact of solar storm less than feared A massive solar storm hitting Earth is having less impact on satellites, power grids and communications than some had feared, U.S. space weather experts say. ... more | .. |
  Dr. Strangelove and How I Learned to Love Space Debris The whole issue of space debris smacks of Peter Sellers' character in Dr. Strangelove where one hand was trying to do the opposite of the other. This is much like the U.S. government's approac ... more | .. |
 Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles ... more |
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 Second Biggest Flare Of the Solar Cycle NASA models using data from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) have now provided more information about the two CMEs associated with t ... more | .. |
 Earth braces for biggest space storm in five years A pair of scorching explosions on the Sun's surface is sparking the biggest radiation and geomagnetic storm the Earth has experienced in five years, space weather experts said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Dear Ups and Dawns Dawn is continuing its exploits at Vesta, performing detailed studies of the colossal asteroid from its low altitude mapping orbit (LAMO). The robotic ambassador is operating extremely well on behal ... more | .. |
 Flying Through a Geomagnetic Storm Glowing green and red, shimmering hypnotically across the night sky, the aurora borealis is a wonder to behold. Longtime sky watchers say it is the greatest show on Earth. It might be the grea ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 Looking at the Man in the Moon Many of us see a man in the moon-a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The "face," of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria (smooth plains formed ... more | .. |
 Lunar lander firing up for touchdown Europe's ambition of touching down at the Moon's south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft's thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans to ... more | .. |
  Antimatter zapped First it was caught. Then it was stored. And now it is being made to jump. "It" is the elusive antihydrogen atom. Researchers at CERN, in an international effort led by a Canadian team, have used mi ... more | .. |
 Tevatron experiments report latest results in search for Higgs boson New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive Higgs boson may nea ... more |
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World's best measurement of W boson mass points to Higgs mass and tests Standard Model The world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature's elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Ener ... more | .. |
  Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione for the first time, confirming the presence of a very tenuous atmosphere. The oxygen ions are quite ... more | .. |
  Messenger Modifies Orbit to Prepare for Extended Mission Messenger successfully completed an orbit-correction maneuver this evening to lower its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of Messenger's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's surface - fr ... more | .. |
 NASA Solar Study Mission Moves to Next Design Stage Two-thousand-degree temperatures, supersonic solar particles, intense radiation - all of this awaits NASA's Solar Probe Plus during an unprecedented close-up study of the sun. A team led by th ... more |
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 China to launch moon-landing orbiter in 2013 China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and conduct a moon landing and lunar explorations, its designer said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang ... more | .. |
 World's best measurement of W boson mass points to Higgs mass and tests Standard Model The world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature's elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Ener ... more | .. |
 Two crystals linked by quantum physics For almost fifteen years Professor Nicolas Gisin and his physicist collaborators have been entangling photons. If this exercise seems to them perhaps henceforth trivial, it continues to elude us ord ... more | .. |
 New model provides different take on planetary accretion The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System's planets grew as small grains colliding chaotic ... more |
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 Researchers say galaxy may swarm with 'nomad planets' Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets, wandering through space instead of orbiting a star. In fact, there may be 100,000 times more "nomad planets" in the Milky Way than stars, according ... more | .. |
  Acidic Europa May Eat Away at Chances for Life The ocean underneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be too acid to support life, due to compounds that may regularly migrate downward from its surface, researchers find. Europa, ... more | .. |
 Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The co ... more | .. |
 VLT rediscovers life on Earth By looking at the moon "We used a trick called earthshine observation to look at the Earth as if it were an exoplanet," says Michael Sterzik (ESO), lead author of the paper. "The Sun shines on the Earth and this light is ... more |
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