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Kepler Triples ExoPlanet Count As Search For Biosphere 2 IntensifiesEureka, CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2011 The rush of data released earlier this month from the Kepler science team is intriguing for what it saw and didn't see in its first 4 months of observations. The relatively small Kepler space telescope is very good at what it does. It has a highly sensitive array of CCDs (light sensors) that has taken about 21 months of data. We saw the release of a small part of that data recently. It revealed more than 1200 potential extrasolar planets. If a reasonable percentage of these worlds turn out to be i ... read more |
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  Can WISE Find The Hypothetical Tyche In Distant Oort Cloud In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter ... more | .. |
  China Mars probe set for November launch China's first Mars probe will be launched from a Russian rocket in November, two years later than originally planned, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  NASA Sets Launch Date For Space Shuttle Discovery Mission Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 4:50 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. T ... more | .. |
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  One Month Until Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft - carrying seven science instru ... more | .. |
  ISS Partners Mull Unique Photo-Op The international space station (ISS) partners are currently discussing a possibility to stage an extraordinary photo opportunity in March that would yield photo and video images of the space statio ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Sample Magnetic Environment Around Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to skim close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the plan ... more | .. |
  Good Health Report After Hiatus In Communications Opportunity emerged from the solar conjunction in good order. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two ... more |
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North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined'
ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent
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  A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out What would our solar system look like if visitors from other worlds took a series of pictures? NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft did just that by piecing together the first portrait of our solar sys ... more | .. |
 Advanced NASA Instrument Gets Close-up On Mars Rocks NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will carry a next generation, onboard "chemical element reader" to measure the chemical ingredients in Martian rocks and soil. The instrument is one ... more | .. |
 Back To The Roots Of The Solar System Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to obtain det ... more | .. |
 Bolden to announce fate of shuttles NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden says he will decide by this spring where the agency's three shuttle orbiters will be housed in their retirement. ... more |
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  SpaceX to focus on astronaut capsule Commercial space company SpaceX says it has put off development of its Falcon rocket to focus on its Dragon capsule intended to take astronauts into orbit. ... more | .. |
 Experiment volunteers take 2nd 'walk on Mars' Astronauts on a simulated flight to Mars made a second walk on a mock-up of the Red Planet's surface in Russia Friday, collecting soil samples for analysis. ... more | .. |
 As US cuts back, China aims to be top at science China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday. ... more | .. |
Obama vows US will 'out-hustle' world President Barack Obama vowed Friday to make America "the best place on Earth to do business," making his case for investments that have sparked a raging budget battle with Republicans. ... more |
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
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  High NOON For Microwave Photons An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists a ... more | .. |
  Southampton Scientists Develop Control System To Allow Spacecraft To Think For Themselves The world's first control system that will allow engineers to programme autonomous satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves has been developed by scientists from the University of Southampt ... more | .. |
 Europe's ATV Johannes Kepler Supply Ship On Its Way To Space Station ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, has been launched into its targeted low orbit by an Ariane 5. The unmanned supply ship is planned to deliver critical supplies and reboost t ... more | .. |
 Space Operations Inc Announces First Orbital Manned Commercial Spacecraft Operational By 2012 Space Operations, Inc. has announced plans to build a two-seat manned orbital spacecraft for commercial and government use. The company plans a test launch on February 20, 2012, with a regular fligh ... more |
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 Direct Images Of Disks Unravel Mystery Of Planet Formation The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), continue with another remar ... more | .. |
NASA set for Feb 24 Discovery shuttle launch The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on February 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, its last flight before being retired as the US shuttle program winds down, NASA said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon Water Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercur ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou 8 Mission Could Top Three Weeks The next flight of China's Shenzhou spacecraft will last somewhere between 20 and 22 days, according to German sources. The information was relayed to SpaceDaily by a communications officer at DLR, ... more |
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'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
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 Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Former Spy Chapman May Participate In Creation Of Uniform For Space Industry Former spy Anna Chapman wants to participate in the designing of a uniform for ground specialists of Russian space centers, Gagarin Astronaut Training Center's chief astronaut Sergei Krikalev said o ... more | .. |
 Build-Up Of The First Vega Launcher Is Complete At The Spaceport The first Vega has been assembled at the Spaceport, marking a key milestone in preparations for the introduction of this lightweight vehicle in Arianespace's launcher family. Build-up of the V ... more | .. |
 Theory: Solar system has another planet A planet, possibly four times the mass of Jupiter and with a lunar system, could be lurking in our solar system's outermost area, two U.S. scientists theorize. ... more |
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 Cosmonauts Conclude Russia 28th Spacewalk from Station Flight Engineers Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka re-entered and closed the hatch on the Pirs airlock, concluding Russia's 28th spacewalk from the International Space Station. The 4-hour, 51-mi ... more | .. |
  Computer creams human 'Jeopardy!' champs An IBM computer creamed two human champions on the popular US television game show "Jeopardy!" Wednesday in a triumph of artificial intelligence. ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 Launches Second ATV Space Truck A European Space Agency rocket blasted off Wednesday bearing a 20-tonne supply ship destined for a rendezvous with the manned International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Boost To Innovative Technology Programs In New NASA Budget The Commercial Spaceflight Federation today welcomed the strong support for space technology investments in the new NASA FY2012 proposed budget, including such high-profile programs as Commercial Re ... more |
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