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Mankind's messenger at the final frontierParis (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 It looks like a dustbin lid strapped to a cluster of fishing rods. Its computer is so puny it could not even start up your iPhone. And if E.T. wants to listen to the message it brings, he'll need a gramophone to play it on. But in the history of space exploration, there is not a probe that can touch the glittering career of Voyager 1, mankind's first messenger to the cosmos. Thirty-five years after it was launched, the doughty explorer is on the brink of leaving the Solar System and heading into ... read more |
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  Birth of a planet The Earth and the planets of our solar system are not alone in the universe. Over the past few decades, the hunt for extrasolar planets has yielded incredible discoveries, and now planetary research ... more | .. |
  Dawn Of A New Mission To Proto Planet Ceres An interplanetary spaceship left Earth in 2007. Propelling itself gently and patiently through the solar system with a blue-green beam of xenon ions, it gradually spiraled away from the sun. It sail ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The newly selected teams ... more | .. |
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  Rapidly rotating white dwarf stars can solve the missing companion problem for Type Ia supernovae The research group of Izumi Hachisu (The University of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio University) and Ken'ichi Nomoto (Kavli IPMU, The Univiersity of Tokyo) discovered that a Type Ia supernova occurs aft ... more | .. |
 Explosion of galaxy formation lit up early universe New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected ... more | .. |
  Seeing the Birth of the Universe in an Atom of Hydrogen Windows to the past, stars can unveil the history of our universe, currently estimated to be 14 billion years old. The farther away the star, the older it is - and the oldest stars are the most diff ... more | .. |
 Dawn has Departed the Giant Asteroid Vesta Mission controllers received confirmation that NASA's Dawn spacecraft has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn is now officially on its way to its second dest ... 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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 35 years on, Voyager 'dancing on edge' of outer space NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be "dancing on the edge" of outer space, the experts behind the pioneering craft said. ... more | .. |
 The mystery of dark matter may be near to being deciphered The universe is comprised of a large amount of invisible matter, dark matter. It fills the space between the galaxies and between the stars in the galaxies. Since the prediction of the existence of ... more | .. |
 A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163 A new superterran exoplanet (aka Super-Earth) was found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163 by the European HARPS team. The planet, Gliese 163c, has a minimum mass of 6.9 ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for Students Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins- ... more |
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  ACE, Workhorse Of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15 The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is Earth's vanguard. Orbiting around a point 900,000 miles away between the Earth and our sun, this satellite is ever vigilant, recording the combination of r ... more | .. |
  NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) ye ... more | .. |
 Unique Gamma Ray Station to Be Built on Baikal Work began by the Siberian Lake Baikal to create a unique gamma ray observatory, which will span 100 square kilometers in one of the world's cleanest places, researchers said on Sunday. The Tu ... more | .. |
 A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 160,000 light years from Earth. Many new stars, some of them ver ... 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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 Sweet result from ALMA A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has spotted sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star. This is the first time sugar been found ... more | .. |
 NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies. Images from the t ... more | .. |
  China's Baidu to invest $1.6 bn in cloud computing China's leading search engine Baidu will invest more than 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in cloud computing over the coming years, its chief financial officer said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Los Alamos Provides Hope For Radiation Belt Storm Probes 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 c ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
BRICS nations to denounce Trump tariffs
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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