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Mining Asteroids - A New IndustryBethesda MD (SPX) May 02, 2012 This past Wednesday a new company, Planetary Resources (PRI), announced it is serious about searching the cosmos for the first mineable asteroid. Within two years PRI hopes to identify that historic near-Earth object (NEO), presumably soon to be mined for its valuable minerals. Within minutes of the public announcement media reporters were speculating that such asteroids contain precise metals such as gold and platinum. This kind of reaction is what Hollywood thrives on. In fact, film Direct ... read more |
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  'Faster-ticking clock' indicates early solar system may have evolved faster than we think Our solar system is four and a half billion years old, but its formation may have occurred over a shorter period of time than we previously thought, says an international team of researchers from th ... more | .. |
  Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be flying within about 46 miles (74 kilometers) of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, May 2, aiming primarily to learn more about the moon's internal structure. ... more | .. |
  Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new particle at CERN Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be de ... more | .. |
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 NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at the pr ... more | .. |
 Dusty Stellar Nurseries from the Dark Side of a Galaxy One of the world's most powerful cameras, SCUBA-2 is producing its first detailed images of our neighbouring galaxies, revealing previously undetected vast pockets of star formation where the next g ... more | .. |
 Meeting Converges On Gemini Observatory Recent And Potential Scientific Impact In mid-July 2012, astronomers from around the world will converge in San Francisco, California, to discuss recent and future science from the Gemini Observatory. From direct imaging of exoplanets, t ... more | .. |
 NMSU's Apache Point Observatory team observes record 103,000 spectra in March When the sun goes down, researchers and staff at New Mexico State University's Apache Point Observatory go into high gear, mapping the universe one pinpoint at a time for the Sloan Digital Sky Surve ... more |
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France says Australia defence ties repaired after submarine row
Trump: U.S. to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, EU to pay bill
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 A Cluster Within A Cluster The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2-meter MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in favor ... more | .. |
 Old star, new trick The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers ... more | .. |
  Microbes Go Rafting on Floating Volcanic Rocks Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes ... more | .. |
 Record-Breaking Radio Waves from Ultra-Cool Star Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet ... more |
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 Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy are found in intergalactic space It's very difficult to kick a star out of the galaxy. In fact, the primary mechanism that astronomers have come up with that can give a star the two-million-plus mile-per-hour kick it takes requires ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Find Possible Secret of the Origin of Brown Dwarfs The origin of brown dwarfs is one of the great unsolved mysteries facing astrophysicists today. In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western's Shantanu Basu (at left) and Universit ... more | .. |
  Plan to Counter Space Threats Proposed Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has proposed a special federal program to neutralize space threats, Roscosmos deputy head Vyacheslav Davydov said on Thursday. Threats at the planetar ... more | .. |
  BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter and Transfer Module mated for first time The Structural and Thermal Models of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module were mated for the first time on 11 April 2012. The mating was performed to accurately posi ... more |
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Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
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 Ridiculously Dim Bevy of Stars Found Beyond Milky Way A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way that puts out as much light as only 120 modest Sun-like stars. ... more | .. |
  NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could yield water, oxygen, methane and rocket ... more | .. |
 European Google Lunar X Prize Teams Call For Science Payloads The race for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is creating science opportunities for European lunar researchers. Four teams competing for the competition presented their plans at the European Lun ... more | .. |
 India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait till the country's space agency flies two of its heavy rocket - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) - success ... more |
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 A 100-gigbit highway for science Climate researchers are producing some of the fastest growing datasets in science. Five years ago, the amount of information generated for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations International Panel ... more | .. |
 Research breakthrough takes supercomputing out of the lab In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing the finely tuned particles of light is a complex and time-consuming process, until now. Thanks to the work by a team of eng ... more | .. |
 Expectation of extraterrestrial life built more on optimism than evidence Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets' respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the possibility of also finding Earth-like li ... more | .. |
 Russia to Send Manned Mission to Moon by 2030 Russia is planning to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on its website on Friday. According to the Russian space strategy published on the Roscosmo ... more |
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Atomic 6 receives 2M Space Force award to advance next generation solar arrays
ESA and Neuraspace develop autonomous satellite navigation technologies
Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government | .. |
 Moon Express Delivers Lunar Mission Design Report for mining the Moon for precious resources Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, providing NASA continuing data on the dev ... more | .. |
  Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school stud ... more | .. |
 Do Milky Way's Companions Spell Trouble for Dark Matter? Astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered a vast structure of satellite galaxies and clusters of stars surrounding our galaxy, stretching out across a million light-years. T ... more | .. |
 SwRI Scientists Assess Age Of Titan's Organic Atmosphere Shrouded in a thick, complex, organic haze, Saturn's giant moon Titan is proving to be one of the most scientifically interesting destinations in the solar system. Titan's atmosphere, which is mostl ... more |
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 UK company to build Sun orbiter: ESA The European Space Agency said Friday it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the Sun from closer up than any before it. ... more | .. |
 Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring t ... more | .. |
 NASA Research Estimates How Long Titan's Chemical Factory Has Been in Business Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cr ... more | .. |
  Three Earthlike planets identified by Cornell astronomers It's not little green men, but it could be a step in that direction: Cornell astronomers, using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, have identified three Earthlike planets orbiting their own suns, al ... more |
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