Global Positioning Systems work famously here on the home planet because we control all of the moving parts; put some satellites in the sky, equip a device with the proper hardware to communicate with them, and you can locate yourself just about anywhere. But how would
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The new round of experiments aim to find out what matter looked like at the dawn of time
Smashing protons at high energies is fun and all, but researchers at the Large Hadron Collider are taking a vacation from their day-to-day proton smashing, and taking a trip back
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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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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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This new Spiderman-style suit may not win astronauts a spot in the fashion hall of fame, but it could help keep their bones intact during long spaceflights. Described in a new paper, prototype tests of the Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit, being developed by a
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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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As the pieces of the James Webb Space Telescope - the next-gen replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope - come together, there's plenty of excitement in the astronomy
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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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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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Last week we celebrated the dedication of Spaceport America, New Mexico's dedicated private spaceflight hub that hopes to
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Using only two months of data, the GOCE gravity-tracking satellite has built the first-ever full map of Earth's gravitational field.
The map, called a geoid, reflects the bumps and valleys of Earth's gravitational effects. The map shows what the Earth would look
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Charles Darwin's theories of evolution have revolutionized the way mankind understands its origin. Now, engineers suggest that the process of natural selection may have surprising implications for spacecraft
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NASA has a fine track record when it comes to winning space races, so it should come as no surprise that the space agency's Dawn spacecraft has set a new record for velocity change produced by spacecraft
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The first two members of Russia's upcoming 18-month "Mars mission" have been selected by the European Space Agency; Frenchman Romain Charles and Colombian-Italian Diego Urbina will join 3 Russians and
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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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R2 was developed through a Space Act Agreement by NASA and General Motors. It is faster, more dexterous and more technologically advanced than its predecessors and able to use its hands to do work beyond the scope of previously introduced humanoid robots.
Robonaut-2, NASA's robot astronaut,
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Responding to concerns about Toyota's recall of 8 million cars, President Obama has asked the National Academy of Science (NAS) and NASA to
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Ever since Japan's asteroid exploring spacecraft Hyabusa crash-landed in the Australian outback this summer after a seven year round trip through space, astronomers and space geeks the world over have been waiting to hear confirmation from JAXA (the Japanese space agency)
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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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This glorious cloud of baby stars surrounds the star R Coronae Australis. It was photographed by the Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
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My debris field is bigger than yours
Space debris remains one of the biggest challenges
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Rumors circulated last week, but now it?s official: NASA won?t be sending manned
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it wasn?t uncommon to see
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The DIY miniature satellites known as CubeSats have a lot going for them. They're cheap,
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With the news that the White House has canceled the Constellation Program, NASA seems to
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It would be adorable if it weren?t so massive, hot and violent: the ESO has just released this
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The space power race is on. Japan announced a plan
in September to put a small
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The public can now take advantage of "the people's camera" aboard a distant Martian orbiter
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In a world of real-time Twitter search and smartphones that whisk
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Russia's proposal for an Armageddon-style mission to deflect the space rock Apophis
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