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Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd planetsAnchorage, AK (SPX) Jun 14, 2012 Even small telescopes can make big discoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence of two very unusual faraway planets. One planet is a massive, puffed-up oddity that could change ideas of how solar systems evolve. The other orbits a very bright star, and will allow astronomers to make detailed measurements of the atmospheres of these bizarre worlds. Ohio State University doctoral stud ... read more |
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 Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expected Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon a ... more | .. |
  Orbital Launches Company-Built NuSTAR Satellite Aboard Pegasus Rocket for NASA Orbital Sciences reports that its Pegasus rocket has successfully launched the company-built Nuclear Spectroscopic Array Telescope (NuSTAR) satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administr ... more | .. |
 Planets can form around different types of stars It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around a star if the star had a high content of heavier elements. But new research from the University of Copenhagen, among other ... more | .. |
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  Media Tonedown for Tiangong Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012 The launch of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is a major step forward for China's astronaut program. It's attracted the attention of the w ... more | .. |
 Tiangong's Big Tasks The flight of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is another step in China's most ambitious human spaceflight project to date. While much of the mission has yet to be completed, Ti ... more | .. |
 Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with da ... more | .. |
 NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of bu ... more |
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Australia to deploy fleet of underwater strike drones
Pacific Island leaders back 'ocean of peace' at fraught summit
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 China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more | .. |
  Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D ... more | .. |
  Varied Views from the ISS It boggles the mind to consider how different the wonders of the universe look when viewed from outside our usual perspective. We are used to seeing everything with our heads tilted back, looking up ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou-9 May Face Thunder, High Temps The Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft will face tests of thunder, high temperatures and other adverse weather conditions this summer ahead its launch, experts said Monday. The spacecraft will be launched ... more |
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 Shenzhou-9 full-system drill a success The Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft mission successfully completed its first full-system drill on Tuesday afternoon, and everything went well, an unidentified official with the mission said. The ... more | .. |
 Welcome Aboard Tiangong Soon, three Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft will dock with China's first space laboratory, Tiangong 1. This will mark the first docking of a crewed Chinese spacecraft with another ve ... more | .. |
  Engineered robot interacts with live fish A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots. Results published in IOP Publishing's journal Bioinspiration and Biomimet ... more | .. |
  Virgin Galactic Opens New Office Virgin Galactic opened a new office in Las Cruces, N.M., that will complement the commercial spaceline's growing operations team at Spaceport America and enhance the local economy through jobs, loca ... more |
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Global search and rescue system gets recognition as real lifesaver
Solar flare ions reach extreme temperatures in breakthrough study
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  NASA Mars Rover Team Aims for Landing Closer to Prime Science Site NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to its ultimate destination for science ... more | .. |
 Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet - astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou 9 crews named in Chinese media Chinese authorities have now confirmed that the country's first manned space docking mission will be launched on the evening of 16th June, and that it will carry two men and China's first female spa ... more | .. |
 e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars On Saturday 26th November, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space onboard an Atlas V rocket as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which plans to land a rover name ... more |
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  Unique microbes found in extreme environment Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landsca ... more | .. |
 CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more | .. |
 Life Supplies and Manned Docking Tested in Shenzhou-9 Mission NASA space scientist Mark Lee says the manned docking process contains sophisticated technologies and techniques. "The Shenzhou 8 was such a great success that further facilitates the manned mission ... more | .. |
 The pressure is on for aquanauts A splashdown in the ocean used to mark the end of an astronaut's mission. For ESA astronaut Timothy Peake and his crewmates, their mission will have just started. Today, some time during 11:00-13:00 ... more |
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China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
Boeing says will hire replacements for striking US defense workers
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 Robotics helps us become more competitive Robotics is an area of research that can help us to innovate and become more competitive in the international marketplace. This was one of the conclusions of RoboCity12, the Robotics Summit that was ... more | .. |
 China to launch manned spacecraft this month China will launch a spacecraft this month to conduct its first manned space docking, state media said Saturday, the latest step in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station by 2020. ... more | .. |
  Tennessee takes big step towards nuclear fusion power Imagine a world without man-made climate change, energy crunches or reliance on foreign oil. It may sound like a dream world, but University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineers have made a giant step ... more | .. |
 Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself into Standby Safe Mode NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a precautionary standby status early Friday, June 8, Universal Time (Thursday evening, Pacific Time), when the spacecraft detected unexpected characterist ... more |
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 Robotic Arm Gets to Work on Veins of Gypsum Opportunity is investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2969 (May 31, 2012), the rover drove 36 feet (11 meters) to the northeas ... more | .. |
 Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a final agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars research project in November, ESA spokesman Rene Pischel said on F ... more | .. |
 NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll. Kwa ... more | .. |
  NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With Long-Duration J-2X Powerpack Test NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., broke its own record on June 8, when it conducted a test on the new J-2X powerpack. The test lasted for 1,150 seconds, breaking the previous re ... more |
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