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![]() Beijing (XNA) Mar 15, 2012 China has begun designing and manufacturing the flight model entity of its third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, according to the administration of China's lunar probe project. As a key part of the second step of China's three-phase lunar probe projects, the Chang'e-3 mission has entered the flight mode phase from prototype phase, according to a statement from the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) on Tuesday. The third probe will carry a lunar ro ... read more |
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![]() Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach dista ... more | .. |
![]() Herschel's new view on giant planet formation Astronomers have used ESA's Herschel Space Observatory to observe 2M1207, a peculiar brown dwarf with its own circumstellar disc and a planetary companion five times more massive than Jupiter. These ... 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 | .. | ||
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![]() Lockheed Martin Space Fence Radar Prototype Tracking Orbiting Objects A prototype of a new radar system developed by a Lockheed Martin-led team is now tracking orbiting space objects, bringing the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program one step closer to revolutionizing ... more | .. |
![]() Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance An international particle physics collaboration has announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they tra ... more | .. |
![]() Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report 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. ... 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 | .. |
![]() Earth's protective bubble hasn't burst For the first time, the loss of atmospheric ions from Earth and Mars has been observed during the same solar wind stream. In a new study, data from ESA's Cluster and Mars Express spacecraft, which o ... more | .. |
![]() Running hot and cold in the deep sea: Scientists explore rare environment Among the many intriguing aspects of the deep sea, Earth's largest ecosystem, exist environments known as hydrothermal vent systems where hot water surges out from the seafloor. On the flipside the ... more |
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![]() Researchers capture first-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule. Key to the experiment, which appears in this week's issue of the journal Natur ... more | .. |
![]() The First Spectroscopic Measurement of an Anti-Atom The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. Thei ... 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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