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| Space shuttle lands safely in
California |
Nov 30, 2008 |
| Did lack of comet impacts help
life evolve? |
Nov 29, 2008 |
| XCOR Aerospace to announce ticket
sales for suborbital space flights |
Nov 28, 2008 |
| Enceladus jets: Are they wet
or just wild? |
Nov 27, 2008 |
| Hubble captures views of mammoth
stars |
Nov 26, 2008 |
| NASA prepares for new Juno mission
to Jupiter |
Nov 26, 2008 |
| Milky Way's sweetness throughout |
Nov 26, 2008 |
| Galaxy 'missing link' uncovered |
Nov 25, 2008 |
| Test-firing for Falcon 9 rocket |
Nov 25, 2008 |
| Science could soar with world's
most powerful rocket |
Nov 25, 2008 |
| Planet imaged
closer to star than ever before? |
Nov 24, 2008 |
| NASA, ATK
successfully test first Orion launch abort motor |
Nov 23, 2008 |
| Nothing lost
in space – this time |
Nov 22, 2008 |
| Buried glaciers
found on Mars |
Nov 21, 2008 |
| It's confirmed:
Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations |
Nov 21, 2008 |
| Hubble solves
puzzle of loner galaxy |
Nov 21, 2008 |
| Site list
narrows for NASA's next Mars landing |
Nov 20, 2008 |
| XMM-Newton
and Integral clues on magnetic powerhouses |
Nov 20, 2008 |
| NASA tests
first deep-space Internet |
Nov 20, 2008 |
| Mysterious
electrons may be sign of dark matter |
Nov 19, 2008 |
| New report
lists NASA's biggest challenges |
Nov 19, 2008 |
| Gamma-ray
evidence suggests ancient Mars had oceans |
Nov 18, 2008 |
| Sun shines
on future Mars colonies |
Nov 18, 2008 |
| Shuttle docks
with space station |
Nov 17, 2008 |
| Planet wobbles
could reveal Earth 2.0 |
Nov 15, 2008 |
| Endeavour
space shuttle lifts off |
Nov 15, 2008 |
| Cassini finds
mysterious new aurora on Saturn |
Nov 15, 2008 |
| Indian probe
touches down on Moon |
Nov 14, 2008 |
| Exoplanets
finally come into view |
Nov 14, 2008 |
| Shuttle Endeavour
ready for launch |
Nov 13, 2008 |
| Dusty shock
waves generate planet ingredients |
Nov 12, 2008 |
| TV-sized probe
to strike Moon's surface |
Nov 12, 2008 |
| Mars Phoenix
Lander finishes successful work on Red Planet |
Nov 11, 2008 |
| Mysterious
changes seen on distant dwarf planet |
Nov 10, 2008 |
| Fingers, loops,
and bays in the Crab Nebula |
Nov 10, 2008 |
| Indian satellite
orbiting Moon |
Nov 9, 2008 |
| Plucky Mars
rovers on the move again |
Nov 8, 2008 |
| The Bullet
Cluster: Searching for primordial antimatter |
Nov 7, 2008 |
| Fermi's search
for dark matter |
Nov 6, 2008 |
| Moon probe
set for lunar arrival |
Nov 5, 2008 |
| Has new physics
been found at the ageing Tevatron? |
Nov 4, 2008 |
| Cassini might
hold secrets to life on Saturn moon |
Nov 4, 2008 |
| Magnetic shield
for spacefarers |
Nov 4, 2008 |
| Taurid meteors
may produce dazzling 'fireballs' |
Nov 4, 2008 |
| Cassini swings
past Enceladus |
Nov 3, 2008 |
| Habitable
worlds may hide in gas giants' wake |
Nov 2, 2008 |
Space shuttle lands safely in California
(Nov 30, 2008)
The space shuttle Endeavour
glided to a smooth landing at Edwards
Air Force Base in California on Sunday, returning to Earth from
a mission to expand and renovate the International Space Station.
NASA had hoped to land the seven astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida but thunderstorms and high winds prompted flight directors
to opt for a California landing.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
Did lack of comet impacts help life evolve?
(Nov 29, 2008)
It seems we got off lightly in the cosmic lottery. Deadly comet
impacts may be much rarer in our solar system than in others nearby.
Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews, UK, analysed observations
by the Spitzer
Space Telescope and found that the vast majority of sun-like stars
near us have more dust than our solar system does and therefore have
had more collisions in their vicinity.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
XCOR Aerospace to announce ticket sales
for suborbital space flights
(Nov 28, 2008)
On December 2, XCOR
Aerospace, builder of the 2-seat Lynx rocket-powered suborbital
launch vehicle, will introduce its new partner for ticket sales and
a price for suborbital flights which, the company says, is substantially
lower than prices quoted by leading competitors. The first commercial
Lynx suborbital space flight participant will also attend the conference,
a European adventurer who aims to be the first person from his country
to make such a journey.
Read
more. Source: XCOR Aerospace |
Enceladus jets: Are they wet or just wild?
(Nov 27, 2008)
Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's
moon Enceladus.
At the heart of the search is the question of whether the jets originate
from an underground source of liquid water. The Cassini
spacecraft continues to collect new data to look for clues.
Read
more. Source: NASA/JPL |
Hubble captures views of mammoth stars
(Nov 26, 2008)
Two of our galaxy's most massive stars, until recently shrouded in
mystery, have been viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope, unveiling
greater detail than ever before. The image shows a pair of colossal
stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler
16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina
Nebula.
Read
more. Source: ESA |
NASA prepares for new Juno mission to
Jupiter
(Nov 26, 2008)
NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented,
in-depth study of Jupiter.
Called Juno, the mission will be the first in which a spacecraft is
placed in a highly elliptical polar orbit around the giant planet
to understand its formation, evolution and structure. Underneath its
dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes
and conditions that governed our early solar system.
Read
more. Source: NASA/JPL |
Milky Way's sweetness throughout
(Nov 26, 2008)
A simple sugar that is an ingredient of life has been found for the
first time in a relatively hospitable part of the galaxy. As molecules
go, glycolaldehyde is not an impressive one, but its link to the origins
of life make it significant. It can react to form ribose,
a key constituent of the nucleic acid RNA.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Galaxy 'missing link' uncovered
(Nov 25, 2008)
Astronomers have identified a type of galaxy that represents a "missing
link" in our understanding of the Universe. Spiral
and elliptical galaxies
used to be known exclusively as "blue" and "red", respectively. But
two studies, published in a Royal Astronomical Society journal, show
that one in five galaxies is a red spiral.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Test-firing for Falcon 9 rocket
(Nov 25, 2008)
A private firm has test-fired a rocket that could soon be flying cargo
and astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX
company fired the engines of its Falcon 9 rocket for three minutes
– the length of time taken for the launcher to climb towards
orbit. NASA has given SpaceX seed money to carry out development of
the rocket.
Read
more. Source: BBC |
Science could soar with world's most powerful
rocket
(Nov 25, 2008)
A high-level panel of experts has praised the idea of sending NASA
astronauts to visit a nearby asteroid in a new report. The report
also recommends ambitious robotic missions that would be possible
with next-generation rockets, but warns that the missions could come
with big price tags.
Read
more. Source: New Scientist |
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