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Nearest Star Has Earth Mass PlanetGarching, Germany (ESO) Oct 17, 2012 European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system - the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012. Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the n ... read more |
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  Blue Origin Tests Rocket Engine Thrust Chamber NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As par ... more | .. |
  What's Baking on Titan? Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature that resembles a giant hot cross bun and ... more | .. |
 The sound in Saturn's rings: RUB-Physicists explain nonlinear dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas Dusty plasmas can be found in many places both in space and in the laboratory. Due to their special properties, dust acoustic waves can propagate inside these plasmas like sound waves in air, and ca ... more | .. |
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 J-2X Engine Offers A Powerful Line Up Two J-2X engines and a power pack, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, sit side-by-side at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as work continues on the Space Launch System. ... more | .. |
  At Pluto, Moons and Debris May Be Hazardous to New Horizons Spacecraft During Flyby NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, Ne ... more | .. |
  NMSU Graduate Student Looks For Indications Of Life On Mars In Possible Trace Methane Gas An astronomy graduate student at New Mexico State University spoke Tuesday about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars at a presentation during the American Astronomica ... more | .. |
  University of Tennessee study confirms solar wind as source for moon water Three years ago University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers helped to discover water on the surface of the moon. Now, they are piecing together the origin of that water: solar wind. A new study ... more |
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  ISS and space flight gravity influence immune system development New research findings recently published in The FASEB Journal, show that immune system development is affected by gravity changes, as reported by researchers from the University of Lorraine and Univ ... more | .. |
  ESA deploys first orbital debris test radar in Spain A new radar designed to test methods for finding orbital debris that can be hazardous to space navigation has been installed in Spain. The radar will be used to develop future debris warning service ... more | .. |
 Rover's Second Scoop Discarded, Third Scoop Commanded Commands will be sent to Curiosity instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the "Rocknest" site of windblown Martian sand and dust. Pending evaluation of this Sol 69 (Oct. 1 ... more | .. |
 Boeing Proposes Gas Clouds to Remove Space Debris Space debris issues continue to proliferate and concern continues to build. It is not surprising that the big aerospace companies are gearing up to take advantage of any future debris removal contra ... more |
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 Distant planet found circling with 4 stars Two U.S. citizen scientists have discovered a planet in a system with four different suns, the first known of its type, U.S. and British astronomers say. ... more | .. |
 Ultra-Compact Planetary System Is A Touchstone For Understanding New Planet Population An extraordinarily crowded planetary system is providing critical clues for understanding why most known planetary systems appear different from our own solar system. Using data from NASA's Kepler s ... more | .. |
 OG2 Prototype Hardware Functionality Verified Prior to Deorbit ORBCOMM Inc. reports that the single prototype of its second generation of satellites (OG2), launched as a secondary mission payload on the Cargo Re-Supply Services (CRS-1) mission of October 7, 201 ... more | .. |
 A Long and Winding Road: Cassini Celebrates 15 Years Today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft celebrates 15 years of uninterrupted drive time, earning it a place among the ultimate interplanetary road warriors. Since launching on Oct. 15, 1997, the spac ... more |
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Consciousness debate intensifies as scientists urge clarity while AI and robotics advance
ICEYE unveils Tactical Access which grants guaranteed SAR satellite imaging for urgent operational needs
New research clarifies atomic-scale mechanism behind cloud seeding with silver iodide | .. |
  AFSPC commander convenes AIB Air Force Space Command commander General William Shelton has ordered an Accident Investigation Board (AIB) to investigate why a Delta IV RL-10B-2 upper stage engine did not perform as expected duri ... more | .. |
  Austrian space diver no stranger to danger "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner, the Austrian daredevil who stunned fans around the world Sunday by breaking the sound barrier in a hair-raising dive from the fringe of space, was "born to fly." ... more | .. |
 Baumgartner feat boosts hopes for imperilled astronauts Daredevil Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking jump raises hopes that pilots and even astronauts can be saved from accidents in the stratosphere, experts said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  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 |
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  NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength Marvel Comic's fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength. While NASA's X1 robotic exoskeleton can't do what you see in the movies, the latest roboti ... more | .. |
 China launches civilian technology satellites China successfully launched the Practice-9 A and Practice-9 B satellites into space at 11:25 a.m. Sunday, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said. The satellites, launched from the center in ... more | .. |
  Lost asteroid rediscovered with a little help from ESA A potentially hazardous asteroid once found but then lost has been rediscovered and its orbit confirmed by a determined amateur astronomer working with ESA's space hazards programme. The half-kilome ... more | .. |
 Robotic Arm Tools Get To Work On Rock Outcrop Opportunity is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign at a location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour C ... more |
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Electrons travel losslessly along edges in new topological model
Cologne scientists confirm new decay path for technetium-98 in nuclear chart
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  Early-Earth cells modeled to show how first life forms might have packaged RNA Researchers at Penn State University have developed a chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-billion years ago. Using large "macromolecules" ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Preparing for Second Scoop On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil. Like the firs ... more | .. |
Austrian breaks sound barrier in record space jump Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first man to break the sound barrier in a record-shattering, death-defying freefall jump Sunday from the edge of space. ... more | .. |
 Proton Lofts Intelsat 23 For Americas, Europe and Africa Markets Intelsat S.A., report Sunday that an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 23 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred a ... more |
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  Space shuttle finally reaches LA retirement home The US space shuttle Endeavour finally reached its California retirement home Sunday, after taking three days instead of two for its last-ever journey - 12 miles (19 kilometers) across Los Angeles. ... more | .. |
 Austrian breaks sound barrier in record space jump Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first man to break the sound barrier in a record-shattering freefall jump from the edge of space Sunday, organizers said. ... more | .. |
 Moon water could have solar source: study Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun as the indirect source. ... more | .. |
 Austrian daredevil to make new space jump bid An Austrian daredevil is preparing to make a new attempt Sunday to jump from the edge of space, days after his initial bid was aborted at the last minute due to the weather. ... more |
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