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Top US lawmaker skeptical of new space fundingWashington (AFP) Dec 16, 2009 Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she was personally skeptical of manned space missions and warned that NASA's future funding could depend on whether it was likely to create jobs. Pelosi vowed "harsh scrutiny" of all spending requests and said she would be asking "what is the mission? How will the money effectively be spent, in what period of time, to create jobs, compared ... read more |
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Boston (UPI) Dec 17, 2009 A Harvard astronomer spotted a planet 2.7 times the size of Earth only 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, a scientist said. Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, called the discovery by Harvard's David Charbonneau "extraordinary" because when planet hunters search for life-supporting planets, they usually focus on far-away stars that are large and ho ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2009At the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory onboard the International Space Station ... more  
London (UPI) Dec 15, 2009 Imperial College London scientists say they have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered by meteorites into Mars' atmosphere. That finding, the researchers note, raises fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet. Scientists said methane on Mars is being constantly replenished by an unidentified source. Researchers had thought meteorites ... more |
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Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2009Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. But according to planetary scientist Francis Nimmo, evidence from recent NASA missions suggests that conditions necessary for life may exist on the icy satellites of Saturn and Jupiter. "If these moon ... more  
Washington (UPI) Dec 15, 2009 The U.S. space agency and Saudi Arabia say they've signed a joint agreement calling for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research. The agreement between NASA and Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology recognizes the Saudi Lunar and Near-Earth Object Science Center as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA's Ames Research ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2009Two nearby stars have been found to harbor "super-Earths" - rocky planets larger than the Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune. Unlike previously discovered stars with super-Earths, both of the stars are similar to the Sun, suggesting to scientists that low-mass planets may be common around nearby stars. "Over the last 12 years or so nearly 400 planets have been ... more |
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