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Two asteroids to whiz past Earth - NASA
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Two asteroids to pass near Earth Wednesday
Two asteroids are expected to pass within 154,000 miles of Earth on Wednesday -- closer than the distance between the Earth and the moon, NASA announced. Neither will hit the planet, NASA was quick to add. Asteroid 2010 RX30 is estimated to be

Cosmic spiral created by whirling stars
A near-perfect spiral encircles the star LL Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus. Astronomers suspect the dust-swaddled system actually harbours two stars that orbit each other every 800 years. One star is nearing the end of its life, shedding gas that is

LEGO MoonBot From New Jersey Wins CompetitionGrounded Space Station Module May Get New MissionAirbag Designer Casts Eye on NASA's Escape ShipBoeing Moves Forward With Commercial Space CapsuleFlying Missile Defense Laser Test Delayed1st Communication Sate
A team of eighth-grade students from New Jersey has won first place for its miniature lunar rover made entirely out of LEGO pieces. The competition, called MoonBots, is the mini version of the Google Lunar X Prize, which challenged teams to land an

1st Communication Satellite: A Giant Space Balloon 50 Years AgoNASA Takes Huge Moon Rover for a Test Drive ... and DanceNASA Packs Up Robot Helper for Space Station TripSupersonic Concept Plane Would Shush Sonic Booms
People on Earth may take for granted today's high-tech world of cell phones, GPS and the satellites high above the planet that make instantaneous communication possible. But it all began 50 years ago with one giant space balloon. Echo 1, the world's

NASA Takes Huge Moon Rover for a Test Drive ... and DanceNASA Packs Up Robot Helper for Space Station TripSupersonic Concept Plane Would Shush Sonic Booms
After years on the drawing board and in the lab, NASA's huge All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) rover is finally getting a chance to stretch its six legs. Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put the ATHLETE

NASA Packs Up Robot Helper for Space Station TripSupersonic Concept Plane Would Shush Sonic Booms
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is packing up a 300-pound robot helper for a trip to the International Space Station later this year. The humanoid robot, called Robonaut 2, is not exactly riding first class into space. Instead of a seat alongside its human

Ripples in the cosmic background
Faint ripples in the as seen mapped on a full-sky projection. Colors represent tiny temperature deviations from the average (red regions are warmer and blue regions are colder). Credit: NASA and the WMAP mission (PhysOrg.com) -- The universe was created

Three-Quarters Of New Solar Systems Worldwide Were Installed In The EU In 2009
In 2009, newly installed photovoltaic (PV) cells world-wide produced a peak amount of electricity estimated at 7.4 GW, out of which 5.8 GW was located in Europe. Similarly to previous years, this shows the EU's dominance, where more than three quarters

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth - NASA
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on today, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope. The asteroids were discovered on Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth: NASA
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.The asteroids were discovered on Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.The

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth - NASA
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on today, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope. The asteroids were discovered on Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The

Can We Spot Volcanoes On Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes
Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they're asking the next logical questions: do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

DOUBLE ASTEROID FLYBY Sept 8th 2010
View: Reporter's biography | More stories — | DOUBLE ASTEROID FLYBY: It's a cosmic coincidence. Two asteroids, each about 10 to 15 meters wide, will fly past Earth within hours of one another on Sept. 8th. Although both are coming inside the orbit

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth - NASA
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on today.

Hubble Spots Ghostly Space Spiral
View: Reporter's biography | More stories — | When I first saw this ghostly Hubble Space Telescope image, I assumed that faint blurry spiral was a lens flare or some other photographic anomaly. But on closer inspection, the details started to

Mars Life May Have Been Missed Years Ago
New analysis of data sent from Mars 34 years ago showing there was no organic material on the planet suggests maybe there was after all, U.S. scientists say. Researchers say the result from re-examining findings of the 1976 Viking mission does not bring

Asteroids to whiz past Earth
The asteroids were discovered on Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The Minor Planet Center in Massachusetts, which tracks asteroids and comets, determined there was no chance of an Earth collision. Asteroid 2010 RX30, thought to

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth - NASA
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on today.

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth - NASA
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Volcanoes on Alien Planets Might Be Detectable
Volcanic eruptions on Earth-like alien planets might be detectable. Researchers think they can do it by scanning the heavens for sulfur dioxide, a gas that volcanoes commonly spew out. "Our first sniffs of volcanoes from an alien Earth might be pretty

NASA team to trapped miners: No alcohol, cigarettes
After spending almost a week in Chile, a team of NASA personnel sent to provide nutritional advice and psychological support to 33 trapped miners reported Tuesday that the efforts of the Chilean government have been outstanding so far, and the focus

The Next Space-Going Superpower: The Isle of Man? | Discoblog
Top contenders for the next manned moon landing: the United States, Russia, China, India, and… the Isle of Man. Sure, the island found between Ireland and the United Kingdom is only three times the size of Washington, DC, but according to the

Cosmology center tackles fundamental questions
Narrator: This is Science Today. Cosmologists at the University of California, Irvine's Center for Cosmology are trying to tackle some of the oldest and longstanding questions in science ... and humanity. Bullock: Questions like how old is the universe?

2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth
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Two asteroids to whiz past Earth: NASA (AAP)
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.The asteroids were discovered on Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona.The

Two asteroids to whiz past Earth: NASA
NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope. The asteroids were discovered on Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The

NASA Probe Will Head to the Sun, Withstand 2600-Degree Heat
At long last, here comes the sun (mission). Never mind NASA’s numerous observatories; never mind the unmanned Pioneer 10 and Voyager probes careening toward the far reaches of the solar system—no craft has ever gone to the center of the solar

Mars Life May Have Been Missed
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Mars Life May Have Been Missed
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