Scientists trying to explain the universe's accelerating expansion usually point to dark energy, which seems to be pushing everything apart.
But an Indiana University professor has a new theory, reports New Scientist:
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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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As for NASA's future continue to generate gridlock in Washington DC, the Russians are investing $800 million in a new spaceport in the country's far eastern region. The spaceport, which will relieve
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Virgin Galactic just released some nice video of its latest SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) test flight, the first with the spacecraft's two-pilot flight crew aboard.
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First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars -- now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It's a terapixel image: 1,000 000,000,000 pixels.
The software giant's Terapixel
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Image: Armored Spacecraft Workers place the special radiation vault for NASA's Juno spacecraft onto the propulsion module. Juno's radiation
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Add gumshoe detective to NASA's resume. Last year, scientists from the space agency working with the US Geological Survey and the Menlo Park District Attorney's office solved
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Next time you're marveling at the fact that Spirit and Opportunity have been roving Mars for over six years now, ponder this: the two Voyager spacecraft
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JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has released the first photographs of the interior of the Hayabusa probe. Last week, we were starting to fear that the seven-year mission had returned to Earth without the crumbs of asteroid Itokawa that it had been sent for.
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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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James Cameron's love of science and high-tech cameras has previously shone through with his undersea documentaries -- not to mention Titanic or even Avatar. Now the film director is playing "public engagement co-investigator" on NASA's upcoming
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Remember that zombiesat that stopped taking commands from the ground last month? It's plodding toward its first potential victim, a television
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The Large Binocular Telescope just got a new pair of eyes, and while we love our orbiting telescopes we have to admit the LBT looks pretty sharp. The Arizona-based telescope just brought home the clearest
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Among NASA's top priorities is the goal of locating life in the universe and it has - on Earth. But in doing so, NASA may have found a new tool to help it seek out life elsewhere in our solar system. An imaging satellite
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While other satellite observatories zoom in on exoplanets or snap photos of star birth on faraway galaxies, the European Space Agency's Planck Telescope is studying the bigger picture. After a year in service,
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A Japanese probe bound for Venus has missed its orbit and been seized by the sun's gravitational pull, in a major setback for Japan's shoestring space program. The probe, called Akatsuki,
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So you're holed up in a well-equipped shipping container for the next year and a half. How do you pass the time? By playing Guitar Hero and dreaming of showers.
You can now take a video
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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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NASA has been tracking a piece of space junk on course for a near collision with the International Space Station this week, but while the agency continues to monitor the debris --
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Fans of the original Star Wars trilogy and 80s nostalgia suffered a blow at the weekend when Disney announced plans to close its Star Tours ride, 20 years after its inaugural flight.
The
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Hubble uses its new and improved imaging equipment to capture glimpses of distant galaxies never before seen
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Astronauts say the next crew launch vehicle should have disaster odds of just 1 in 1,000
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So which comes first, the black hole or the galaxy? The questions has vexed astrophysicists for
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A network of space buffs is learning to track asteroids more accurately than ever to predict exactly when and where the next killer meteorite will strike
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Red dust blankets out the sun in Sydney
Sydney-siders woke to the sight of an immense red-glowing
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Andromeda absorbs a smaller neighbouring galaxy. We're next.
Astronomers in the University
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Aussies a few steps closer to space? but not on this budget.
Industry leaders, academics,
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Australian WiggleZ Project Tracks Dark Matter Patterns In Expansion of the Universe.
Australian
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NASA?s got an iPhone app
Few of us can ever hope to become an astronaut in our lifetimes, so the
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted the first reflection off a northern lake on Saturn's moon Titan
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