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| NASA studies ripped solar panel |
Oct 31, 2007 |
| US astronauts begin key spacewalk |
Oct 30, 2007 |
| Missing black hole report: Hundreds
found! |
Oct 29, 2007 |
| Space rocks go under the hammer |
Oct 28, 2007 |
| Rocket racing league makes first
test flight |
Oct 28, 2007 |
| New room added to space station |
Oct 27, 2007 |
| New space plane design offers
more legroom |
Oct 27, 2007 |
| Supersize elements created in
lab |
Oct 27, 2007 |
| Comet brightens mysteriously
by a factor of a million |
Oct 26, 2007 |
| First known belt of moonlets
in Saturn's rings |
Oct 25, 2007 |
| Simplest 'universal
computer' wins student $25,000 |
Oct 25, 2007 |
| China launches
first Moon orbiter |
Oct 24, 2007 |
| Life from
Mars theory put to test |
Oct 24, 2007 |
| Shuttle heads
for space station |
Oct 23, 2007 |
| Magnetic cocoons
power energetic cosmic rays |
Oct 23, 2007 |
| Crashed spacecraft
yields data |
Oct 21, 2007 |
| Europe floats
future space ideas |
Oct 20, 2007 |
| NASA cuts
funding to private spaceship developer |
Oct 19, 2007 |
| Star Trek
film names Kirk actor |
Oct 18, 2007 |
| Heavyweight
black hole is a record breaker |
Oct 18, 2007 |
| Saturn's rings
hide 'sunflowers' and extra bulk |
Oct 17, 2007 |
| Youthful-looking
galaxy conceals ancient stars |
Oct 17, 2007 |
| You too can
do particle physics |
Oct 16, 2007 |
| Super-Earths
will have plate tectonics |
Oct 15, 2007 |
| Forget rockets
– go to Mars in a cosmic fruit bowl |
Oct 14, 2007 |
| Lunar orbiter
births two 'baby' probes |
Oct 13, 2007 |
| Enigmatic
supernova smashes brightness record |
Oct 12, 2007 |
| Moon jets
pinned on 'tiger stripes' |
Oct 12, 2007 |
| New radio
telescope begins search for alien signals |
Oct 10, 2007 |
| Sun to blame
for mysterious blemishes on Saturn moon |
Oct 9, 2007 |
| I am creating
artificial life, declares US gene pioneer |
Oct 7, 2007 |
| Did an ancient
impact bowl Pluto over? |
Oct 6, 2007 |
| Mirrors 'could
deflect' asteroids |
Oct 6, 2007 |
| Sun's 'twin'
an ideal hunting ground for alien life |
Oct 4, 2007 |
| Though colder
than Earth, Titan is tropical in nature |
Oct 3, 2007 |
| Is a naked
singularity lurking in our Galaxy |
Oct 2, 2007 |
NASA studies ripped solar panel
(Oct 31, 2007)
NASA is trying to assess the damage in a newly unfurled solar wing
at the International Space
Station. The panel is part of an array held inside a girder that
was moved on Tuesday from its temporary site on the platform to a
new, permanent location. Ground controllers and two spacewalking astronauts
watched with concern as the second of two wings in the array opened
to reveal a rip along its edge.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
US astronauts begin key spacewalk
(Oct 30, 2007)
Two US astronauts are carrying out a key spacewalk on the International
Space Station (ISS). Scott Parazynski and Douglas Wheelock are
due to fit a massive girder that holds giant solar wings. A problem
with the station's existing solar panels means the new solar arrays
must work perfectly.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Missing black hole report: Hundreds found!
(Oct 29, 2007)
Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black
holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years
away. The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA's Spitzer
and Chandra space
telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population.
Their discovery implies there were hundreds of millions of additional
black holes growing in our young universe, more than doubling the
total amount known at that distance.
Read
more. Source: NASA/JPL |
Space rocks go under the hammer
(Oct 28, 2007)
Some of the world's most famous meteorites
are going under the hammer at a New York auction house in what is
said to be the first sale of its kind. The pieces are drawn from collections
across the world and many examples are richly coloured and intricately
patterned. Price estimates range from $1.1m (£0.53m) for a 13-kilo
(29-pound) piece to pebbles worth a few hundred dollars.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Rocket racing league makes first test
flight
(Oct 28, 2007)
A new league that plans to race rocket-powered planes for spectators
made the first test flights of the vehicle to be used in its races.
The Rocket
Racing League's president, Granger Whitelaw, who won two Indy
500 races as a team owner, made the announcement at Holloman Air Force
Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, which is hosting the Wirefly X Prize
Cup this weekend. XCOR
Aerospace built the vehicle as part of a partnership with the
league.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
New room added to space station
(Oct 27, 2007)
Two US astronauts from the shuttle Discovery
have completed a space walk in which a new room was added to the International
Space Station (ISS). Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock took six
hours to steer the 14-ton module from Discovery's cargo bay on a robotic
arm and put it in a temporary position. Five spacewalks are planned
to fit the "Harmony" unit to the space station.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
New space plane design offers more legroom
(Oct 27, 2007)
Aerospace company Rocketplane Global has unveiled a new, roomier design
for its suborbital space
plane, which it hopes to send passengers on by the end of 2010.
But at least for the first few flights, its passengers will have to
remain strapped to their seats during the weightless portion of the
trip.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Supersize elements created in lab
(Oct 27, 2007)
US researchers have created exotic new versions of atomic
nuclei including one previously thought to not exist. The three
new isotopes of magnesium
and aluminium suggest other heavy variants of everyday elements could
be created. The new nuclei existed for only a fraction of a second
and were created by smashing atoms at half the speed of light in a
particle accelerator.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Comet brightens mysteriously by a factor
of a million
(Oct 26, 2007)
A comet usually too
faint to be seen with the naked eye has brightened by a factor of
a million since Tuesday, suggesting its surface may have cracked open
and expelled clouds of dust and gas. Astronomers are scrambling to
observe the strange object [comet 17P/Holmes], which is likely to
fade in the coming days and weeks.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
First known belt of moonlets in Saturn's
rings
(Oct 25, 2007)
A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered
in Saturn's outermost
ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward
asteroid or comet eons ago, according to a University of Colorado
study. Images taken by a camera onboard Cassini
revealed a series of eight propeller-shaped "wakes" in a thin belt
of the outermost "A" ring, indicating the presence of corresponding
moonlets, said CU-Boulder researcher Miodrag Sremcevic, lead author
of the study published in the Oct. 25 issue of Nature.
Read
more. Source: University of Colorado |
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