Posts Tagged ‘ SPACE.com ’

SPACE.com – The recent discovery of an asteroid wrapped in a layer of water ice has revived the possibility that some space rocks would be great potential pit stops – as well as destinations – for manned or robotic exploration missions. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – When scientists got an unprecedented up-close view of Pluto from the Hubble telescope recently, they found mysterious bright and dark spots mottling the dwarf planet’s surface. Now researchers think they have a better guess at what’s causing those weird spots. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – An American space tourism company that arranges multimillion-dollar treks to the International Space Station for the ultra-wealthy has struck a new deal to offer suborbital spaceflights for nearly half the going cost. The price is still steep though: $102,000 for the works. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – Despite recent media reports that NASA found evidence for life on Mars, the U.S. space agency says proof that we are not alone is still a ways off. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – Our universe might have originated from a black hole that lies within another universe. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – NASA has delayed the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour from July to November at the earliest to allow time to modify its cargo – a $1.5 billion science experiment – for a longer stay on the International Space Station. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – A resilient Japanese space probe is on track to become the first spacecraft to return to Earth with pieces of an asteroid when it drops a sample canister in a deserted patch of the Australian outback in June. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – The prolific Hubble Space Telescope will hit an important milestone this weekend – the 20th anniversary of its launch. Hubble scientists are celebrating the iconic space telescope’s milestone with a stunning new photo of pillar-like mountains of dust in a well-known nebula. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – The ash cloud belched by an erupting volcano in Iceland may have disrupted air traffic over much of Europe, but it poses no threat to NASA’s planned Monday landing of space shuttle Discovery, agency officials said. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – A small chunk of rock believed to be a fragment from a meteor that burst into a stunning fireball over Wisconsin Wednesday night was discovered by a farmer after it fell on the roof of his shed. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – NASA has made steady progress toward the planned retirement of its three aging space shuttles this September, but will likely not complete the fleet’s current flight schedule until February 2011, a new report has found. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – A bright fireball that lit up the sky above parts of Alabama last week was caught by NASA cameras as it streaked over the southeastern United States. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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