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![]() Los Alamos, NM (SPX) Sep 03, 2012 New Mexico, August 30, 2012-Los Alamos National Laboratory expertise in radiation detection and shielding is poised to help a national team of scientists better understand a mysterious region that can create hazardous space weather near our home planet. The Helium Oxygen Proton Electron (HOPE) analyzer is one of a suite of instruments that was successfully launched as part of the Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission-an effort by NASA and the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory to g ... read more |
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![]() Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion Helps Understand Far-Off Galaxy Nature hath no fury like a dying star - and astronomers couldn't be happier...An international research team, led by Edo Berger of Harvard University, made the most of a dying star's fury to probe a ... more | .. |
![]() Atlas 5 Launches Twin Radiaton Belt Probes NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes are flying in Earth orbit after a successful liftoff and ascent this morning. The probes launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 4:05 a.m. EDT a ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. Th ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Space-warping white dwarfs produce gravitational waves Gravitational waves, much like the recently discovered Higgs boson, are notoriously difficult to observe. Scientists first detected these ripples in the fabric of space-time indirectly, using radio ... more | .. |
![]() Flags at half mast across US for Armstrong funeral Flags flew at half staff across the United States on Friday as family, friends and fellow astronauts gathered in Ohio to remember Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. ... 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet 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. Th ... more | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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