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Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: reportMoscow (AFP) March 13, 2012 Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month. The Kommersant daily said the mission statement from the Roscosmos space agency through 2030 reveals no financial details but includes plans to find outside sources of funding that do not put additional pressures on the budget. It also sees Russia purchasing a large chunk of its rocket technology from foreign co ... read more |
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  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. The team led by ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System Data collected during MESSENGER's third through sixth month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all ... more | .. |
  Venus, Jupiter in night sky dance An unusual opportunity to see two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, appear to be right next to each other in the night sky is peaking in the next two days, astronomers said. ... more | .. |
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  Encounters of another kind: meteorite chunk falls on Oslo A Norwegian family was flabbergasted to find that what appeared to be a piece of a meteorite had crashed through the roof of their allotment garden hut in the middle of Oslo, media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  NASA exploring ways to clean up space debris Faced with increasing threats of space debris, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is actively exploring ways to clean up the outer space. Donald Kessler, an astrophysi ... more | .. |
  Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich - you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... more | .. |
 Hot Meets Cold at New Deep-Sea Ecosystem: "Hydrothermal Seep" Decades ago, marine scientists made a startling discovery in the deep sea. They found environments known as hydrothermal vents, where hot water surges from the seafloor and life thrives without sunl ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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  NASA's RXTE Captures Thermonuclear Behavior of Unique Neutron Star A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. In October 2010, a ... more | .. |
  Kepler Statistical Analysis Suggests Earthlike Planets Extremely Rare Last week, the Kepler science team released its list of candidate planets based on the data collected during the mission's first sixteen months. ... more | .. |
  Experiment Observes Elusive Neutrino Transformation An international team of physicists-including several from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-has detected and measured, for the first time, a transformation of one particular type of ... more | .. |
 Age of warning satellite causes concern A U.S. satellite giving the only advance warning of incoming high-energy solar particles is getting old and is possibly on its last legs, researchers say. ... more |
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 Galaxy cluster hidden in plain view A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The galaxy c ... more | .. |
 Distant galaxy cluster found in plain view A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant example of a galaxy cluster lying in the middle of one of the most well-studied regions in the sky. Galaxy clusters are the 'urban centres' of t ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Solar storm could disrupt Summer Olympics The Summer Olympics could be crippled by a solar storm far more potent than the one currently wearing away at Earth's magnetic field, a British physicist said. ... 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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 Mystery deepens around dark core in cosmic collision Five years ago, San Francisco State researcher Andisheh Mahdavi and his colleagues observed an unexpected dark core at the center of Abell 520, a cosmic "train wreck" of galaxy clusters. With new sp ... more | .. |
 Antlia Dwarf Galaxy Peppers the Sky with Stars The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than four million light-years from Earth, but this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers such clarity that they could be ... more | .. |
Storms from the Sun Space weather starts at the Sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME ... more | .. |
 Workforce from the Digital Cloud By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet. It is us ... more |
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 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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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