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NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf PlanetPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2012 NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) to start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn began its 3-billion-mile (5-billion kilometer) odyssey to explore the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt in 2007. Dawn arrived ... read more |
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  Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater. Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimat ... more | .. |
  NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes its Orbit Earlier Thursday, navigators and mission controllers for NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter watched their computer screens as their spacecraft successfully performed its first deep-space maneuver. This ... more | .. |
  How Old are the First Planets? Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2012 To build a planet you need lots of rubble and that means lots of heavy elements - stuff more massive than atoms of hydrogen and helium. The elemental composition ... more | .. |
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  Uwingu To Begin Funding Research Ahead of Schedule Uwingu is a space-themed, for profit start up seeking crowd-sourced funding to launch an ongoing series of public engagement projects. In specific, Uwingu will employ novel software applications to ... more | .. |
 Kepler discovers planetary system orbiting 2 suns Astronomers at the International Astronomical Union meeting announced the discovery of the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. The discove ... more | .. |
  The shock of separation The BepiColombo mission to Mercury has undergone a series of shock tests at ESA's test facilities to replicate conditions it will experience during its intense ride into space. This video shows test ... more | .. |
 Planet search moves to Antarctica Chinese astronomers say they are using survey instruments in Antarctica to search actively for Earth-like planets that may sustain life. ... more |
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China says no ambition to build South Pacific military base
US, Japan, India, Australia pledge mineral cooperation on China jitters
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 Chilean telescope finds sugar molecules near star Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in Chile said Wednesday that they had discovered sugar molecules, one of the building blocks of life, orbiting a young star similar to the Sun. ... more | .. |
 Japanese spacecraft to search for clues of Earth's first life In a Physics World special report on Japan, Dennis Normile reports on how the Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on ... more | .. |
 Russia's moonshot hope 'not a dream' Russia has proposed a joint project with Kazakhstan and Ukraine to build a heavy rocket capable of launching manned missions to the Moon. It believes this project could be accomplished within three ... more | .. |
 Sweet building blocks of life found around young star Life is made up of a series of complex organic molecules, including sugars. A team of astronomers led by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, have now observed a simple sugar molecule in the g ... more |
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 New research eclipses existing theories on moon formation The Moon is believed to have formed from a collision, 4.5 billion years ago, between Earth and an impactor the size of Mars, known as "Theia." Over the past decades scientists have simulated this pr ... more | .. |
 Evaporating Planet Has a Comet Tail Dutch astronomers have found clear evidence that a faraway exoplanet is falling apart. New analysis of data from NASA's Kepler satellite shows that this exoplanet, which orbits its host star every 1 ... more | .. |
  Saturn and its Largest Moon Reflect Their True Colors Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Saturn and its largest moon, Titan, show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released. One image captures the changing hues of Saturn' ... more | .. |
 NASA, Texas astronomers find first multi-planet system around a binary star NASA's Kepler mission has found the first multi-planet solar system orbiting a binary star, characterized in large part by University of Texas at Austin astronomers using two telescopes at the unive ... more |
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Deep-sea mining negotiators to meet under Trump shadow
'Happy suffering': the Brazilian gold rush that spawned iconic pictures
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 A "Blue Moon" Heralds the Harvest Heralding the change in season, a full Moon will rise in the eastern twilight sky on August 31st for the second time this month (the first time came on August 1st). Many people use the expression "o ... more | .. |
 Astronauts searching for life - underground Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week - albeit deep underground instead of in outer space. An international crew of six astronau ... more | .. |
  New findings show some Type Ia supernovae linked to novae In the August 24 issue of the journal Science, astronomers show for the first time that at least some thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae come from a recurrent nova. The results of the study, led by ... more | .. |
  China Exclusive: Scientists looking for site for giant solar telescope Chinese scientists are looking for a site for a giant solar telescope, which will be the world's largest in the next two decades with data helping to understand solar activities. The Chinese G ... more |
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 Hubble Captures a Collection of Ancient Stars The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the globular cluster Messier 56 (also known as M 56 or NGC 6779), which is located about 33,000 light years away from the Ear ... more | .. |
  Brazil bids to become world's third IT market by 2022 Brazil hopes to capitalize on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics to advance its goal of becoming the world's third largest information technology and communications (ITC) market, a top industry official says. ... more | .. |
 Intense Bursts of Star Formation Drive Fierce Galactic Winds Fierce galactic winds powered by an intense burst of star formation may blow gas right out of massive galaxies, shutting down their ability to make new stars. Sifting through images and data from th ... more | .. |
 Signing out: Armstrong autographs under hammer A series of autographs of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, will go under the hammer this week with auctioneers wondering if the sky's the limit for the prized signatures. ... more |
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UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
BRICS nations to denounce Trump tariffs
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Search for alien life gets boost at twin star The universe is looking increasingly crowded as scientists Tuesday announced the first proof twin stars can host multiple planets - boosting their search for a planet that could support life. ... more | .. |
 Alien encounter could be bad news An alien encounter may not be a pleasant one and it is probably unwise for human beings to be advertising our location, an American Nobel Prize winner says. ... more | .. |
 Apollo 11 capsule stirs Neil Armstrong memories, tributes Coming upon the Apollo 11 capsule at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Monday, Matt Hehman did something that would have been unimaginable when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon 33 years ago. ... more | .. |
 Tributes pour in for 'man on the moon' Armstrong Tributes poured in Sunday following the death of Neil Armstrong, the humble US astronaut whose "small step" on the moon captivated the world and came to embody the wonder of space exploration. ... more |
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 The Milky Way now has a twin or two Research presented at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Beijing has found the first group of galaxies that is just like ours, a rare sight in the local Universe. The Milky Way ... more | .. |
 Supernovae of the same brightness, cut from vastly different cosmic cloth Exploding stars called Type 1a supernova are ideal for measuring cosmic distance because they are bright enough to spot across the Universe and have relatively the same luminosity everywhere. Althou ... more | .. |
 Halo of neutrinos alters physics of exploding stars Sparse halos of neutrinos within the hearts of exploding stars exert a previously unrecognized influence on the physics of the explosion and may alter which elements can be forged by these violent e ... more | .. |
 Neil Armstrong: First man on the moon With one small step off a ladder, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, making him the most lauded American of the Cold War space race. ... more |
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