Deep Impact Probe Snaps Close-Up Images of Comet Hartley 2
The Deep Impact probe, part of NASA's EPOXI mission, has successfully returned never-before-seen images of the comet Hartley 2 as it flew near Earth this morning,
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The Space Concorde: NASA Pushes for Extraterrestrial Hypersonic Flight
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Spirit Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars
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Astronomers Use Hubble Data to Predict the Movement of Stars For the Next 10,000 Years
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Hubble Glimpses the Most Distant Object Ever Seen, A Galaxy 13 Billion Light Years Away
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NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship' To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There Forever
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Attention, Supervillains and Climate Engineers: The U.N. May Soon Forbid You To Block Out the Sun
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In Case of Asteroid Threat, Deploy Tug-Sats and Heavy Rockets, Apollo Astronaut Says
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First Mars Landers Might Have Found Organic Material In 1976, and Destroyed It By Accident
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The Space Concorde: NASA Pushes for Extraterrestrial Hypersonic Flight
NASA is looking for a way to get into space without having to use those pesky, bulky rockets. That means hypersonic
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Spirit Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water on Mars
The brave little rover has been stuck in the sand for a year and a half, spinning her wheels and wiggling her robot arm futilely. As she's kicked up sand, though, she has uncovered deeper layers of Martian soil, and analysis of the difference between the surface and
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Astronomers Use Hubble Data to Predict the Movement of Stars For the Next 10,000 Years
Just last week we learned that Hubble has glimpsed the most distant object ever recorded, an object so far away that it offered
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Again, Space Station Has to Be Moved Out of The Way of Space Junk
It's getting to be real crowded up there. Today, Russian aerospace authorities had to shift the orbit of the International Space Station to get it out of the way of a piece of hurtling debris.
A similar maneuver was planned just a couple of months
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Hubble Glimpses the Most Distant Object Ever Seen, A Galaxy 13 Billion Light Years Away
Peering deep into the cosmos with its upgraded infrared camera last year, the Hubble Space Telescope was able to image a very deep region of the universe. Researchers didn't realize it at the time, but after follow-up measurements by the ESO's ground-based Very Large Telescope,
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NASA and DARPA Plan ‘Hundred-Year Starship' To Bring Humans to Other Worlds And Leave Them There Forever
If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like
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Attention, Supervillains and Climate Engineers: The U.N. May Soon Forbid You To Block Out the Sun
Of all of C. Montgomery Burns's nefarious dealings on The Simpsons, perhaps none sticks in the public consciousness like the time he attempted to use a massive shade to block out the sun (most notably because doing so led to his being shot by a vigilante baby
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In Case of Asteroid Threat, Deploy Tug-Sats and Heavy Rockets, Apollo Astronaut Says
As evidenced by NASA's confirmation last week of an asteroid collision observed by Hubble, there are plenty of objects careening around the solar system
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First Mars Landers Might Have Found Organic Material In 1976, and Destroyed It By Accident
The building blocks of life might exist in Martian soil after all, according to a new study. Evidence from the late Phoenix Mars lander suggests its Viking forebears might have found
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New NASA Game: Extreme Planet Makeover, Gliese 581d Edition
Scientists are on the hunt for exo-Earths, distant cousins of our planet that are just the right distance from their
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As ISS cooling system fails, NASA worries about post-shuttle spare part shortage
Proving that no matter how expensive your air conditioner the cooling pump will still break, NASA is planning a pair of emergency spacewalks on the $100 billion International
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Last shuttle mission will test 3D video docking system for shuttle's replacement
In this modern economy, apparently nothing is sacred -- not even the space shuttle is spared the indignity of training its younger replacement. During what is planned to be the last shuttle flight ever, astronauts onboard space shuttle Endeavour next February will test a new docking system
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Debris from China's 2007 anti-satellite missile test makes close ISS flyby
Bits of Chinese space junk are flying near the International Space Station, and the astronauts on board are prepared to take cover. While space junk threats to the station are nothing new, this one is unique -- the debris
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Ageing Odyssey orbiter creates most detailed map of Martian surface
Youth and vigor have their advantages, but there is something to be said for longevity. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been circling the red planet since 2001 and has just released the best
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Third Spacewalk Succeeds in Replacing Cooling Pump Aboard ISS
It's been a rough week troubleshooting the ISS, but the third time is a charm; today's emergency spacewalk to replace the faulty cooling system aboard the International Space Station went
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Kepler sightings of new 'Earth-like' exoplanets are not confirmed
Yesterday, everyone got excited (PopSci included) at the idea, drawn from Kepler scientist Dimitar Sasselov's TED talk, that the Kepler planet-hunting
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FYI: How Would NASA Rescue An Astronaut Who Floated Away From The International Space Station?
It's never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don't float free. Outside the ISS, they're always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it's a two-person
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After a tense delay, NASA's GOES-15 Solar X-Ray Imager sends back first pics
After a good deal of hand-wringing and breath-holding, NASA engineers have finally brought the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) on the GOES-15 satellite (formerly called GOES-P) online, to return its first
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Aerodynamic rocket nozzle tech could be repurposed to efficiently capture CO2
It's not exactly rocket science, but the same company that builds the rocket boosters that launch the Space Shuttles into orbit has a novel idea for bringing down the cost of carbon capture. Aerospace and defense company ATK wants to pressurize the exhaust emissions
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After solar flare sprays Earth with charged plasma, a beautiful aurora
On Sunday, sunspot number 1092 emitted a C-class solar flare--not a large one, by solar flare standards. But NASA scientists were intrigued by what accompanied it -- an unusually fast corona mass ejection that sent a large cloud of charged plasma toward Earth. There will be no adverse effects
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Eight-Hour Spacewalk to Repair Faulty ISS Cooling Pump Does Not Succeed
Saturday's emergency spacewalk outside the International Space Station failed to replace the faulty cooling pump that malfunctioned last
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NASA Will Spend $30 Million Buying Private Moon Mission Data, In Lieu of Launching Its Own
In an acknowledgement that the private space industry just might have something going for it, NASA is setting aside $30 million to buy information gleaned from
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Robonaut Is Getting Ready For His Big Trip to Space
He has been crated up and shipped to Kennedy Space Center. At the Space Station Processing Facility there, he is going to be carefully packed into his SLEEPR -- the Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut.
At over 220 kilograms, the
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Third Spacewalk Succeeds in Replacing Cooling Pump Aboard ISS
It's been a rough week troubleshooting the ISS, but the third time is a charm; today's emergency spacewalk to replace the faulty cooling system aboard the International Space Station went
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Martian Environment Is Ideally Suited For Crop Farming, Study Says
If we ever decide to colonize Mars, it might be fairly simple to grow crops in that red soil, according to a
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Hubble Shoots a Spooky Snapshot of a Faraway Haunted Nebula
This spooky image of a tiny nebula known as IRAS 05437+2502 was recently released by the Hubble Space Telescope, but perhaps even more eerie than the wispy, ghost-like appearance
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NASA Solar Probe Sets Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Literally
In a mission to learn more about the sun's inner workings, NASA is planning to launch a specially shielded spacecraft in 2018 that will plunge into the solar atmosphere. The car-sized Solar Probe Plus will explore an area just 4 million miles from the star's surface,
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First Mars Landers Might Have Found Organic Material In 1976, and Destroyed It By Accident
The building blocks of life might exist in Martian soil after all, according to a new study. Evidence from the late Phoenix Mars lander suggests its Viking forebears might have found
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Robonaut 2 Sentenced to Additional Month In Crate
With shuttle launch postponed, our hearts go out to a passenger
NASA has just announced it will postpone the 39th and final launch of space shuttle Discovery until November 30 at the earliest, after a hydrogen gas leak stalled this afternoon's scheduled liftoff.
Meanwhile,
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