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April 25, 2014

Curiosity spots asteroids from the surface of Mars
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Apr 25, 2013
For the first time, NASA's Curiosity rover has captured images of an asteroid from the surface of Mars - two of them, in fact. The imagery recorded by Curiosity and beamed back to Earth feature Ceres and Vesta, two of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt that runs between between Mars and Jupiter. This Curiosity first was also a bit of a coincidence, as the SUV-sized rover had aimed its cameras at the Martian sky in order to snap shots of the Red Planet's two moons, not hunt for asteroid ... read more

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High-Voltage Transmission Lines to Act as Antenna in First-of-its-Kind NASA Space-Weather Project A NASA scientist is launching a one-to-two-year pilot project this summer that takes advantage of U.S. high-voltage power transmission lines to measure a phenomenon that has caused widespread power ... more		Astronomers discover Earth-sized planet in habitable zone University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Justin R. Crepp and researchers from NASA working with the Kepler space mission have detected an Earth-like planet orbiting the habitable zone of a cool star. ... more		MESSENGER Completes Its 3,000th Orbit of Mercury, Sets Mark for Closest Approach On April 20, MESSENGER completed its 3,000th orbit of Mercury and moved closer to the planet than any spacecraft has been before, dropping to an altitude of 199 kilometers (123.7 miles) above the pl ... more
				Sun Emits a Mid-level Solar Flare The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation ... more		ESA's weightless plants fly on a Dragon It is a race against time for ESA's Gravi-2 experiment following launch last Friday on the Dragon space ferry. Stowed in Dragon's cargo are lentil seeds that will be nurtured into life on the Intern ... more

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Unique pair of hidden black holes discovered by XMM-Newton A pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another have been spotted by XMM-Newton. This is the first time such a pair have been seen in an ordinary galaxy. They were discovered because ... more		Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to research published on April 16 in the journal Nat ... more		EU leaders plot defence boost in shadow of Denmark drones Germany wants to allow military to shoot down drones Leaked info: China's Taiwan invasion plans get help from Russia		Liquid spacetime What if spacetime were a kind of fluid? This is the question tackled by theoretical physicists working on quantum gravity by creating models attempting to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. So ... more
				Physicists consider implications of recent revelations about the universe's first light The world was stunned by the recent announcement that a telescope at the South Pole had detected a cosmic fossil from the earliest moments of creation; During a live Google Hangout, 4 astrophysicist ... more		Spiders in Space Weave a Web of Scientific Inspiration for Spider-Man Fans While spiders were busy spinning webs in space, researchers on Earth weaved their knowledge of this activity into educational materials to inspire and motivate students. Now, this free, Web-based gu ... more

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European astronomers spot pair of supermassive black holes Luck for the average pedestrian is happening upon a crisp dollar bill tumbling down the sidewalk. For European astronomers, it's happening to be looking at the right portion of sky at the exact moment a star is ripped apart by a giant black hole. ... more		Filling the gap between quantum and classical world Quantum superposition is a fundamental and also intriguing property of the quantum world. Because of superposition, a quantum system can be in two different states simultaneously, like a cat that ca ... more		Philippines quake kills dozens as injured overwhelm hospitals Typhoon Bualoi inflicts death, lasting floods on Vietnam Moldova backs EU in elections marred by Russian interference		Upside-down planet reveals new method for studying binary star systems What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a University of Washington student astronomer. Working ... more
				Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument (NESSI) will soon get its first "taste" of exoplanets, helping astronomers decipher their chemical composition. Exoplanets are planets that o ... more		Vitamin B3 Might Have Been Made in Space, Delivered to Earth by Meteorites Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis by NASA-funded researchers. The result supports a theory that t ... more

Dwarf planet 'Biden' identified in an unlikely region of our solar system

Planet X myth debunked

WISE Finds Thousands Of New Stars But No Planet X

Spiders in Space Weave a Web of Scientific Inspiration for Spider-Man Fans

Astronomers: 'Tilt-a-worlds' could harbor life

New Study Outlines 'Water World' Theory of Life's Origins

Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI

Upside-down planet reveals new method for studying binary star systems

Astronomers discover Earth-sized planet in habitable zone

Opportunity Rover Driving Up To Crater Rim

NASA Rover Opportunity's Selfie Shows Clean Machine

NASA's Human Path to Mars

	A cross-section of the Universe An image of a galaxy cluster taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope gives a remarkable cross-section of the Universe, showing objects at different distances and stages in cosmic history. ... more		NASA's MMS Observatories Stacked For Testing Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., accomplished another first. Using a large overhead crane, they mated two Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories - also ca ... more		First Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planet Confirmed By Gemini And Keck Observatories The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory. The initial dis ... more		John C. Houbolt, Unsung Hero of the Apollo Program, Dies at Age 95 "In the space race of the 1950s and '60s, the leading voices were rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and ... another guy. Household names included Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard and ... oh, you know, ... more

Worlds most powerful centrifuge begins operations in China

Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter

SATNUS completes third NGWS flight campaign with autonomous systems integration

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Majority of Americans doubt the Big Bang theory

ISEE-3: An Old Friend Comes to Visit Earth

Quest for extraterrestrial life not over: experts

Continents May Be A Key Feature of Super-Earths

First Earth-sized planet found in 'habitable zone': NASA

Scientists achieve first direct observations of excitons in motion

Saturn's rings reveal how to make a moon

Pushy neighbors force stellar twins to diverge

NASA Cassini Images May Reveal Birth of a Saturn Moon

Cosmic Slurp

Saturn's hexagon: An amazing phenomenon

Russia plans to get a foothold in the Moon

Supernova Cleans Up Its Surroundings

Hubble Extends Stellar Tape Measure 10 Times Farther Into Space

Chance meeting creates celestial diamond ring

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One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally

SU professors test boundaries of 'new physics' with discovery of 4-quark hadron

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