Astronomers have found a field of over 1,000 super-massive black holes, gathering increasing information about how those anomalies occur and develop. Earth remains however pretty safe, as these “monsters” are between 6 and 11 billion light years away.
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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has recently been asserted as a good contender for harboring life — not water-based life like on Earth, but methane-based instead. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has brought back pictures of what seems to be a very…
Two extra-solar gas giant planets show no evidence of water in their atmosphere. One can’t help but think of Frank Herbert’s planet Arrakis in his space epic Dune.
Contrary to predictions, two planets orbiting distant stars show no signs
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Research into motion-sensitive proteins could allow space suits to generate power from the astronauts’ movements in the space…
They are focusing on a protein called prestin, which is found in the outer hair cells of the human ear. In
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose launch is planned for 2013, will be able to see further and better than Hubble currently does, and will study the first stars and galaxies that formed just after the Big Bang.…
NASA has announced that the selection of astronauts was going to undertake closer scrutiny after the embarrassment of the current court case of one space traveller.
NASA will review the way it screens astronauts for mental or medical problems
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Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary rocks.
Robbing a geek of his lifelong dreams of space flight? That’s just wrong. It’s like telling Captain Kirk he couldn’t join Starfleet!
For the self-described space buff who has attended space camp and watched shuttle launches from Kennedy Space Center,
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Well, actually no. They still have the same brain they left with, but twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity get new software to boost their IQ…
NASA’s twin Mars rovers, nearing the third anniversary of their landings,
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Leave it to the French to cause a revolution. I wonder if the US will open up Area 51 one of these days to public tours…not…
PARIS (Reuters) – The French space agency is to publish its archive of UFO
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A company called Orbital Outfitters is ready to make you a cool spacesuit so you can look and feel great on your first space flight. My question is though, does it come in blue?
The team’s first design, a suit
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